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Good Bye to my Directv Streaming Service
It was good knowing you but it is time for us to part ways. I was an early cord cutter adopter. Did it back when it was unthinkable to most. My only pre-requisite was that I needed Nickelodeon since my daughter was still young. I came across something called directvnow. It was $30 or $35 a month back then. Since I was what they called an early adopter or beta tested they even gave me an extra $5 off a month for some time. It was great. Then it changed names a few times, AT&T bought them and they changed the name a couple times: AT&T Stream, AT&T TV… Now…
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Mid-Day Cigar
Just enjoying a mid-day Hoyo de Monterrey cigar after 18 holes of disc golf. Yes, disc. Haven’t played for a year and forgot I’m not half bad at it.
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Adding a Second Rental
After purchasing a new house in Virginia a couple years ago, we find ourselves with one house too many. Two is manageable. Three is just silly and one doesn’t get visited. Last year solidified that. We stayed at the lake house for a total of two times. That’s it! We went to the lake often to go out on the boat and since home is only an hour away, we didn’t find the need to stay at the lake house. We just used it as a place we would deposit our clothes and dry out towels. At first I was very hesitant to do anything with it. Our current cost…
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Just Wanted a Beer
So what happened is: I went to crack open the beer and of course it just didn’t open. I hit it with the backside of my knife (the part that breaks car windows) and it wasn’t going down. So I used the knife to pry it up (I really wanted that beer!!!) and this is what I saw.
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The Difference
The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried. Very poignant. I try to keep this in mind when shooting film lately. I have screwed up a few more rolls of film. I have taken some good shots and also been stumped on what to shoot next. I’m off to give myself some assignments and shoot ideas and just get out there and take some rolls of film. I need to keep on taking the bad photographs, experimenting with developing, and screwing up before I can fully master the craft.
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Burned Looking Film
I just developed my latest roll of film and it came out burnt looking. It really is the best way to describe it. What happened was that one side of the film got caught in the camera or in the developing wheel (I used a lab box, not a manual spooling method) and with the bent over end it did not spool correctly. This left the film touching itself and sticking to itself so the developer liquid could not contact the surface to correctly develop the film. This is that result. Many good shots were lost, but a few were salvaged and have that interesting light leak look. To avoid…
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Quick Theme Change and Updates
The old site was outdated and viewing was too slow. Wanted to simplify things to keep the site’s pace moving quick and uploading and publishing for me easier so I would keep it up. Should have everything where I want it by next week.
