I've finally wrapped up all the summer's work on performace parts restoration for the Ensemble. I think it was something around 3,000 pages? Nobody was there at the precise moment I finished the task so I just gave myself a quiet high five and headed out the door.
I may come back in December after returning from Japan. It's tentative - I may stay in Japan, they may need to hire someone else.
She has excellent taste in music.
I heard these guys behind me as I took a little time to stroll around after my meetings. They were singing uptempo Sublime songs, medley format, to the ladies they'd pass. I'm not sure it was doing them any good. I don't think they let it get them down.
I just sort of guessed at the focal range here. These shots were taken with the camera pointed west, held under my armpit, while I was walking east.
Ithaca and the surrounding communities are country life for the wealthy. I am fully aware that my life at the lakeside was one of luxury and privilege.
I don't understand what the appeal is but a few bees spent more than an hour buzzing around my right Keen sandal, sucking the devil-knows-what out of it.
At 11:59pm, after tracking the last of the beats for the Songo track, code-named Calliope until something better comes along, I decided to call it quits.
I would keep going if I could.
I tried.
And here, at the end of all things, I took a last dip in the water, now a comfortable 62 degrees. About halfway through the month it was 52 degrees and I can only guess how low it was when I first jumped in.
I will miss this state of being. I do not know if I will miss this particular place since it belongs to someone else, and there are so many other places like it that I want to explore now. I hope that I can do this again.
Paying attention to how your trash piles up is quite an educational experience. Being so far out in the country made pick-up a challenge and I found myself frequently being educated.
Fred came back to pick up his piano today. The low F string, broken before the piano ever arrived at our lakeside location, never recovered.
