Lately

Today I only had to kill off two Chinese Porno Spammers.  I think I shall begin to keep a running tally.  Maybe I can get some kind of widget, make a "kill" sign, post the score visually.  Jesus....

Anyway.

I got back from my second trip to Louisville yesterday afternoon.  It was a good trip.  I really like Louisville, and as I always say whenever I'm almost anywhere but New Orleans, I could see myself living there pretty easily.  It had that river town feel to it that I love so much.  It wasn't quite as steeped in it as St. Louis or Memphis, but it had both a feeling of age and preservation that appealed to me very much.  It was another city that was a perfect example of what a place can be when it cares for itself enough to renew itself not with random acts of stupidity but with careful planning and with preservation and restoration of its old treasures.  The downtown area was lovely.

My new Nikon and other assorted treasures were waiting on me when I got home.  I had been eagerly tracking the progress of the Nikon from the time it left Elizabethtown, NJ and Adorama by using an iPhone app called TrackIt.  I had to pay 99 cents for TrackIt, I think, but as much as I have things shipped to me, it's already been worth it.  I frequently need to know when something's coming in or if it's already been delivered, if for no other reason than to assuage my impatience, and this will track all my packages in one handy place.  Now everything I have coming from orders on amazon, Etsy, eBay, Levenger, or whatever can all be perused at the click of an icon.  Makes me feel almost like there is some order to my little chaotic corner.

I unpacked the Nikon last.  I forced myself to wait to open it until I had everything else opened, unwrapped, unpacked, and taken care of.  Then I cut that box open and ripped into it.  It's lovely.  Except for the fact that it didn't come in a box full of crap, I can't tell that it's ever been used.  I transferred my everyday runaround lens from my filmbody F80 to the D80, thus ceremonially passing the torch, as it were, and retired the F80 to a well-earned rest in its camera bag.

Then I ran around the house like a fool chasing the cats with the camera yelling, "Smile!"

It was a good afternoon.

Tomorrow, I have big plans to go to town and see if I can shoot some of the landmarks before they proceed to completely freaking destroy them remove them in the name of progress.  I may have missed one I really wanted to get already, and one I know I always wanted to shoot is gone for good.  There are several places, including my beautiful vintage theater, that will yield good results, so I will dress in comfortable clothes and go skulk around downtown tomorrow if it doesn't rain.  I may also go shoot a few things at the school if I can tolerate being there.  There are one or two specific things I've had my eye on for awhile, thinking, "Man, if I just had a camera that would get that..."  Well, now I do.