Category: Diary

Having trouble finding an art mover for my sculpture at the library.

Spent the beginning of the week getting ready for a power outage on Tuesday night. It all went OK, though it required some futzing around resetting the air conditioner at three in the morning.

I had a realisation that I’ve been posting an image from my Japan trip to Mastodon every day, without fail, for over 60 days. It feels good to be working on a project, and getting progress done.

I also built out a mindmap flowchart of all the ideas I’ve had for the tentative Life of Flies, a Surfing The Deathline prequel / side-story, focussing on The Dealer, and the MI which created The Line.

Some final tidying at storage, and a colossal mess made at home in trying to find a camera plate. But, it was finally located, and some blankets I don’t need at home are now in vacuum bags to go back to storage.

I sent the library a detailed assessment of what is going wrong with the sculpture as a result of the way it’s been hung.

I submitted an application to the Horizon festival to see if I could get my rope sculpture exhibited.

Spent a fair bit of time tidying and relocating stuff to small plastic boxes at home.

Some major reorganisation at storage, as I prepare to bring C45C4D3 home for rest and recuperation, and hopefully repair.

Went down to Bunnings at Maroochydore, and picked up a circular saw so I could cut up my old desk top, so that it can be carted out to the tip. If I need another big desk, I’ll go for something nicer than melamine chipboard.

Also, I managed to check out the (correct) camera at the camera store around the corner from Bunnings while I was there. It was in very nice condition, and coincidently, a 20% off sale for secondhand gear had started since I was there last. So, I picked up the camera, & a 2 year warranty / protection plan, all for a couple of hundred less than I’d been planning on spending for the camera in the first place.

Once I got it home, I realised it’s shutter count is a couple of hundred fewer than mine, so it’s likely been relatively lightly used. So huzzah all around.

I eventually sawed up my old desk – yet another thing I hauled from Sydney to here, and never used. To the tip it went.

Then, I managed to make a mess of my newly cleaned storage, looking for a tripod adapter plate for my camera. I tore a bunch of storage boxes apart, and my bedroom drawers, before finally finding it folded inside something else, in the first place I’d looked. So, by Sunday, I was cleaning up storage again.

Well, that’s been a week.

I shaved my beard off. I’m not happy about it, but it became necessary, given the amount of things I had to do this week.

I went over to the library makerspace to check on my sculpture, it’s going to have to be removed from display, because the way it’s hung is damaging it.

I went down to Maroochydore to check out a secondhand camera that had been sent up from the Gold Coast, but they sent the wrong one, so now the other one has to be sent up.

I went to storage on Saturday & Sunday, and moved a bunch of stuff about, to start making space for the sculpture to come back from the library.

Came to the hard decision this week, that I’m going to shave off my beard. It’s been ten years or so, and the beard just isn’t compatible with continuing to have a life in a world where masking isn’t going away.

The weight loss and gaunt face look I have now kind of makes me ok with it – I usually make a style evolution every seven years or so. Doing this will be a significant quality of life improvement, despite having to re-learn shaving.

In conjunction with this, I ordered a mask from an American company, that is a silicone mask, with a disposable filter. It doesn’t have an exhaust vent, which should make it better usable if mask mandates come back in.

I decided on a camera upgrade, so I’ve ordered a secondhand D810, the model after my current one, which has a bunch of small upgrades. It has a warranty, and is a price I can handle. It’s in stock down on the Gold Coast, but can be sent up to Maroochydore for me to have a look at it.

I made some progress on updating my virtualised Adobe environment for working on old Surfing The Deathline books.

Rain, so much rain. Plans for New Years to be spent in the pool, drinking margaritas were scuppered by constant rain. The week was spent mostly indoors, drinking early, snacking, playing video games. Eventually there was a nice day, and we were able to enjoy the pool.

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