Peepographers' Week at Toad Woods

Oh, the Glow! Peeps Solubility Research can be eerie, alarming, and just plain bizarre. So what else is new? Photo by Kip Williams

kip_w ventured forth through Wednesday's fog and arrived at Toad Woods to photograph the Peeps Solubility Research in progress. I've put 5 favorites up, and have another 15 tagged for printing and other uses. Plus another 70 keepers...have I mentioned recently how much I love digital photography?

While Kip took photos and we chatted, I sorted through several stacks of papers, consigning most of the accumulation to the recycling box. I found my To Do list from November 15th. Not bad: 26 things done, one canceled by the client, another put onto a back burner, and two personal projects still awaiting my attention. Another list from the stack, this one undated, listed the same two unfinished items. How many more lists will I put them on before I manage to paint the stairway and upstairs hall, before fringefaan and I publish No Goat's Milk Vein? It's been nearly 4 years on the stairs....

In the meantime, I'm making progress on other fronts and enjoying the company of friends in the process. Kip was here for lunch, my friend and lawyer Sandy Williams WINOLJ stopped by for dinner on her way home from a real estate closing in the Berkshires. Tonight, batwrangler is coming down for her own Peepography experiments and investigations. Yay!

My plate is stacked high with PROmote projects, Boskone preparations, and the really quite remarkable variety of tasks that we all juggle while trying to keep up with daily life. Which means I spend lots of time thinking about things I want to post, and very little time actually doing so.

Onward....

I'll bet they're not buying THAT house...

There's a small, gruesome story over on CNN International. It appears a man in Quorn, England, died by hanging himself in his bedroom closet. Auto-erotic asphyxiation or suicide, I'd guess, though the story only says that the death was not being treated as suspicious. House hunters viewing the property found the body.

Eeewww! Not only would that put me right off that house, it'd leave me downright twitchy about the entire house hunt. It'd make a great fanzine article, though.

In other news, my persistent money problems are over! I just received email notifying me that I've won the sum of GBP 2,500,000.00 POUNDS in the Microsoft Email Award Promo....

Yeah, right. Never mind. Back to the salt mines!