Better than I thought

OK, I’ve been a little more active than I thought I’d be able to be. Made it in to town to buy some groceries and say hi to Critter while I was there. I also asked around about the district manager that died, and what I’m hearing is it was a heart attack. He was driving between stores, started feeling bad and pulled over, and then just went. There was a guy like that when I was in resort security; he was walking along next to his son talking, he grabbed a handrail, turned pale, and then just dropped. Paramedics said he was probably dead before his knees hit the pavement.

I’ve managed to get some more stuff done at the apartment. I’ve emptied another crate or two, but most of what I’ve been doing is putting some of the stuff on the tables and counters where it belongs. It’s just stuff that’s accumulated over the course of the past week or so. None, or at least very little of it, was trash, it was just stuff I was carrying that became inconvenient so I put it down and never came back for it. It happens. Part of it is the procrastination thing and part of it is the ADHD thing. And there’s a little bit of lazy in there too, not gonna deny it.

I found an old 8mm film reel in my crates. I have no idea what’s on it, but it seems to have been processed fairly recently: the reel itself is plastic and not at all brittle, and the film is still flexible. It could be a re-print, but I’m wondering why it wasn’t just transferred to VHS or DVD instead of back to 8mm film stock. I’ll take it to work and see if the outside lab that handles our two-day film service and other funkiness and transfer it for me.

Speaking of funkiness, if you ever take 110 or APS to a one-hour place that still has a wet lab and they tell you they can’t do it one-hour ask them if they can’t because they don’t have the masks or if they just don’t like to, see what they say. Both formats are a little cranky, and at my lab we very often have to scan them into the printer frame-by-frame instead of the machine doing it, which takes about twenty times longer. We’ve only got one tech at our lab that doesn’t mind doing it. As a matter of fact it’s Belle. Go figure.

Saw a great Holmes on Homes yesterday. There was so much wrong with that house they had to do a two-parter. Mike estimates they did about $100k worth of work on the home to fix things the owner’s building inspector didn’t catch before they bought the place. There was at least one illegal junction box where a fire had already broken out, but fortunately went out before it caught the joist. It was a mess. I really like home improvement shows, in case you can’t tell.

I might be back later tonight, not sure.