Suckage (Saturday the 19th)
Nov. 22nd, 2005 01:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneToday had a fairly straightforward plan.
1. Take car to Alamogordo to get the windows tinted, estimated at about two hours.
2. Work in darkroom while #1 is underway. Return to darkroom and continue work after picking up car.
3. Go home.
4. Later, return to Alamogordo and see the new Harry Potter flic, probably dinner would be sought beforehand.
Was it Burns who wrote something about "the best laid plans of mice and men auft gay aglee"?
I decide to go to the darkroom first and drop off all my crap, the guy at the tinting place had no problem taking me back there and picking me up. I have three prints to make, retouch, and mount, for my previous assignment. I was also debating whether or not to pull the roll in my camera and process it, it's for my next assignment, due the second Tuesday in December. The debate is that there are three frames left: I have no problem pulling a roll before I've shot every frame, but I'm not seeing a benefit in processing it (a one hour process for one or two rolls) since I'll be shooting another roll for this assignment. The prints were to complete my previous assignment and get it turned in on December 1st.
All that has been rendered moot – the building housing the darkroom is locked up.
We were told that the darkroom would be available through Wednesday with somewhat limited hours, then it would be closed until Monday. It looks like that isn't quite the case. I tried calling security to find out if the building might be open later but couldn't find their number, and I was on somewhat limited time anyway as I needed to get to my window tinting appointment.
So I'm working on my laptop, sitting in the tinting place (VERY noisy vacuum cleaners as they clean cars being detailed). Fortunately I have enough with me to keep me occupied: I'm working on "work" work, earning about a third of what the window tinting will cost me, and I've got a book in case I get my programming problem solved and find myself at ends. For that matter, I have a whole library with me: I copied the CD that came with the new David Weber Honor Harrington book, At All Costs. It has every book that Weber has published! I finished reading a very good Bolo story a few nights ago at the observatory.
Oh, a final word about the tinting. Our new Matrix came untinted, it was a very basic model. Aside from all-wheel drive, it had power windows/door locks and cruise, those were the only options. Anyway, I'm getting the front windows tinted at 35% (light transmission), the rear at 20%. That will give me privacy so that my camera equipment in the back won't be visible to casual passers-by, so as to discourage a smash and grab theft and with the front windows being a lighter tint, I will have much better visibility when driving home at night. The final quarter mile up the mountain can be VERY dark.
1. Take car to Alamogordo to get the windows tinted, estimated at about two hours.
2. Work in darkroom while #1 is underway. Return to darkroom and continue work after picking up car.
3. Go home.
4. Later, return to Alamogordo and see the new Harry Potter flic, probably dinner would be sought beforehand.
Was it Burns who wrote something about "the best laid plans of mice and men auft gay aglee"?
I decide to go to the darkroom first and drop off all my crap, the guy at the tinting place had no problem taking me back there and picking me up. I have three prints to make, retouch, and mount, for my previous assignment. I was also debating whether or not to pull the roll in my camera and process it, it's for my next assignment, due the second Tuesday in December. The debate is that there are three frames left: I have no problem pulling a roll before I've shot every frame, but I'm not seeing a benefit in processing it (a one hour process for one or two rolls) since I'll be shooting another roll for this assignment. The prints were to complete my previous assignment and get it turned in on December 1st.
All that has been rendered moot – the building housing the darkroom is locked up.
We were told that the darkroom would be available through Wednesday with somewhat limited hours, then it would be closed until Monday. It looks like that isn't quite the case. I tried calling security to find out if the building might be open later but couldn't find their number, and I was on somewhat limited time anyway as I needed to get to my window tinting appointment.
So I'm working on my laptop, sitting in the tinting place (VERY noisy vacuum cleaners as they clean cars being detailed). Fortunately I have enough with me to keep me occupied: I'm working on "work" work, earning about a third of what the window tinting will cost me, and I've got a book in case I get my programming problem solved and find myself at ends. For that matter, I have a whole library with me: I copied the CD that came with the new David Weber Honor Harrington book, At All Costs. It has every book that Weber has published! I finished reading a very good Bolo story a few nights ago at the observatory.
Oh, a final word about the tinting. Our new Matrix came untinted, it was a very basic model. Aside from all-wheel drive, it had power windows/door locks and cruise, those were the only options. Anyway, I'm getting the front windows tinted at 35% (light transmission), the rear at 20%. That will give me privacy so that my camera equipment in the back won't be visible to casual passers-by, so as to discourage a smash and grab theft and with the front windows being a lighter tint, I will have much better visibility when driving home at night. The final quarter mile up the mountain can be VERY dark.
