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Days at work are usually upbeat and positive. Today was neither. Yes, there’s a lot going on, and sometimes the pressure gets to you, but that’s still no excuse for a responsible adult to throw a tantrum worthy of a 5-year-old and take it out on a luckless peon with the misfortune to be close by – that would be me. Oh well, I’m sure there are many folks out there with much bigger problems. There are many at the moment who would just be happy to have a boss, whether he showed his behind occasionally or not. However, I’m just glad to have today behind me. The photo is of some of the music gang that got together over at Russ and Jackie’s tonight.

Apparently I am typically not inspired to blog on Mondays. It was busy although I did get to swim and eat a great taco dinner with Diane. This evening I met with Meaghan of the SC Maritime Heritage Foundation to brainstorm about their 2009 Harborfest photography needs. We came up with some fun ideas, such as have your kid photographed with a pirate on a tallship. It will be a great event and they are expecting some really wonderful tallships. I was casting around for my photo of the day while waiting for Meaghan outside California Dreaming, and this puddle with the reflected neon sign caught my eye.

The week was good, but the weekend is always better. I’m looking forward to getting some chores done. One is already behind me, and that was replacing my old wireless router and getting a new one up and running. I am happy to report that it works great. One of tomorrow’s chores will be to produce an order of 12 packs of notecards by next week. First thing though will be to get some more aerials in the early morning light, so I’m looking forward to that. Just hope Jay won’t be out partying too late tonight (:
I don’t have a photo for today, so I’ve posted one from yesterday of an old building on George Street. Great textured stucco walls.

I am so ready for the Spring. I’m tired of feeling cold and tired of my winter clothes. That’s the great thing about seasons; every one is embraced with great enthusiasm as it approaches, and dispatched with distaste as it leaves. In putting together newsletters at work I am always looking for snippets to fill in empty spaces, so I come across some really neat quotes. Here’s one that I found today from the great Dr. Seuss that I thought was cute “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter won’t mind. ” This morning I had work errands to run downtown. I liked this view of buildings on Broad Street because of the color, and also because of the reflections in the glass.

I was unprepared for the Charleston temperature today. The sneaky, freezing wind didn’t help matters either. Not a good day for me to have left my jacket at home, particularly since there were several errands that needed to be run. (Don’t you just love visiting the DMV?) Anyway, I hadn’t noticed anything obviously worth photographing all day, so I stopped in at the Ripley Marina on my way home and stayed out of the car long enough to snap this couple (in sensible coats) walking their dog. Tomorrow is Thursday already and almost time for another weekend. Hopefully I’ll be back in the air early Saturday morning if the weather holds and if we can get the pilot out of bed. We’ll have to work on a different kind of pilot training program involving coffee and food maybe.

So this is what you get when you ask kids to make funny faces and then you take a photograph with a fisheye lens. This photo-a-day thing is making me crazy and you can see how obviously desperate I am to keep to my commitment. OK I missed yesterday, but surely this one counts at least for two, right? So here we have Leigh, Matthew and Chambers. Not very good-looking in this pic, but a loveable trio.

So we watched “The Boss” for a couple of minutes, and parts of the Superbowl game, which I believe the Steelers won, not having stayed for the end. Here’s a pic of some of the gang watching a commercial with 3D-glasses. Whatever!