dr_lizardo

Hello again.

I don't know that I have as much to say anymore, not like I used to have when I was out over the road and I had more opportunity to think. Nowadays I'm pretty physically and mentally destroyed when I get out of work.



The sony A100 I got to replace my A350 came on saturday and I went out taking some pics with it.



Also when I was up in Vermont where I took these photos, I finally caved to my craving for a new guitar, I bought an Eastwood Classic 6 up at Maple Leaf Music. It's a thin hollow body with a center block, Like an ES-335. The tones it has aren't quite as interesting as the ones from my old peavey but it's quite suited to my style, which is more or less to play an electric like it was an acoustic, and with 11 guage strings on it, it has the right feel and response for fairly hard strumming. The cats seem to find the soft case for it to be suitable for claw sharpening and sleeping on.

I was wrestling with a lot of thoughts and nerosis and inhibition for a couple of weeks leading up to the purchase. I've been thinking a lot that for me work and play need to be one and the same. If I buy a guitar, that's walking the broken path of accepting rewards for inherently meaningless work, it's me letting the system beat me. But it's really not that expensive a guitar, and I know that my perspective on things is merely how I insist on viewing them, and the world is a lot more silent and neutral in its attitude toward me than I tend to think. Work kind of grinds me down and leaves me vulnerable to my pessimistic attitudes.

My new camera doesn't have live view like the one that I drowned and it's harder to use for macro photography. The mirror lockup is only on the 2 sec self timer, it would have been better on 5 or 10 seconds, because the camera can still be shaking from the shutter release after two seconds. But anyway, I did put the tamron 90mm on it and attempt some macro shots.





I guess that's it for now. Smooch smooch.