Today was a day.

Descriptive, huh?
The time had finally run out on my son’s grace period to get his room clean and we cleaned it for him with a push broom, a shovel styled dust pan, and garbage bags. In all, we excavated 4 garbage bags of stuff. We warned him, “If it’s on the floor and it’s not clothing, it’s going in the garbage.”
Our cleaning, however, was interrupted when my son ran off saying, “You won’t have to do this again, because it won’t happen.” Either he’s a quick kid or I’m out of shape. Most likely, it’s a combination of both. Anyways, running on asphalt with no shoes on hurts like the dickens and both of us weren’t wearing our shoes.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, gypsiequeen was dialing 911 and got a couple of patrol cars to go assist in the search, one from King County Sheriffs and the other from the Woodinville Police Department, both of whom were very helpful in recovering kiddo. As note, several people from neighborhood were also keeping an eye out for him as well.
I always thought it was a corny cliché used in the movies when some character said they were sick with worry, but today I know better. I came back to the house from my search to talk with sheriff from King County and I found myself very light headed, faint, and nauseated. I suspect the light headedness and the feeling faint came from burning adrenaline and using up the glucose sitting in my blood stream from the morning’s meal. Combine this with a zero salt retention and could see why I almost blacked out twice this afternoon. Coupled with the nausea and I was feeling awful.
Anyway, the Woodinville officer, a very nice lady at that, was the one who found him. Of course he kind of stood out with socks on but no shoes, but she did better than me. With kiddo home, he received a stern talking to from me and I got backed up by the officers that we weren’t making an unreasonable request.
All and all, I am very happy he’s back home.
We got the room clean, which is happiness and now I’m doing some writings.

Bright blessings to all!

Occupation: Drummer

“I got a gig! No, this one doesn’t pay either, but I got a gig!” That’s from the “Drummer” job card in Chez Geek card game from Steve Jackson Games. For those of you who have never played the game, I highly recommend it. It’s the game of being a slacker and collecting slack points. Here’re some sample cards from the game.

Why does this matter? Well, after announcing my intent to leave Microsoft, I was talking with pucspifo the other night and he said I should go after and pursue doing my photography work, since I have the camera, hardware, and software to make it all mesh together. So, I went back through my portfolio, tweaked my website for my photographic work, and e-mailed people I had worked with in the past, asking for link from them on their web site and if they had any upcoming projects we could work on together.

I got one bite back from those e-mails from the folks at Poke It With A Stick Productions, whom I worked for on Evil: In The Loaming, and they’re getting ready for pre-production on their next project and that they want to work with me again!

I also e-mailed a number of people doing casting calls on the Actors North West call board and went through their list of productions that are in the casting phase of production and enquired if they had a production photographer yet or not. If you’re wanting to get involved in acting for theater, film, tv, etc, or you’re looking for talent (actors) and crew, this an excellent resource. One of the e-mails has begun panning out and hopefully we’ll have a deal penned in a week or two.

I’ve heard the statement that Seattle has a large, independent film community and that seems to very much be the case. However, most of those independent films also have no budget. The plan for now with this venture is to get more work under my belt so that I have broader set of images in my portfolio.

We’ll see what happens.

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