Pictures and Failures

I was not terribly productive at work today.  I tried, but I was tired, and kept getting distracted with photography and blog-related stuff and excessive sleepiness.  Shame on me. 

One thing about this new camera is that I can't upload the photos at work, since I don't have a flash card reader there.  That's not a bug.  It's a feature.

But I did take pictures, before, during and after work.

First, let's get this out of the way:

Assignment

Monday Photo Shoot #2: Your computer is a doorway to the entire world (at least the online parts of it). Show off your computer and its surrounding environment. Describe any interesting details.

Monday's technically over, but heck, it's still Monday night, isn't it?

I almost didn't show you this, at least,  not without cleaning up and/or cropping the photo closer to the computer.  You will all think I'm a horrible slob, which of course I am.  This is for want of four things:

1. Space to put things in
2. Money to buy physical storage (bigger house, storage space rental, filing cabinets)
3. Time to do all the things I should be doing, including cleaning
4. Sleep to help me get the energy to clean

Obviously, these are all interrelated.

Well, anyway.  Besides the computer with the possibly-dying hard drive, this photo features Dentyne gum, new batteries bought on a quick run to the store last night when my wireless mouse stopped working, the old batteries, the old Mavica camera, the flash reader for the new Canon camera, vintage beanbag Snoopy, Windex, an unopened color printer cartridge, unorganized CD-Rs, external floppy drive because the internal one died the death, the inevitable cords, a card file box full Tucson Toros ticket stubs, a little dragon Sara sent me back when she was Cricket Ball, and spiral notebooks full of Mâvarin handwritten drafts.  15 hours later, the dead batteries and empty gum pack are in the trash, but the rest is the same.

Flashback

Remember the "view out your window" photo assignment, and my pictures of my messy desk at work when I was so busy?  Here is today's update.  The desk isn't any cleaner, but the photos are better.


The view from my office window.


I suppose this mess is not too terrible.

In Search of the Perfect Mountain Sunset Photo

After work, I took the camera up into the Catalina Foothills, hoping to get better pictures than I can manage within a block of my house.  I took lots and lots of pictures over the course of an hour or more.  Here are a few of them:


Campbell Avenue is a major North-South artery through Tucson.  The top of it is above a street called Sunrise, in the foothills.  I think it was near that terminus that I took this photo.


This was taken from the corner of Swan and Broadway.  I missed out on the very best shots, but you get the general idea.


I don't know why this came out all spotty, except that it was probably taken from inside the car.  The colors are nice, though.

*Yawn* Must...sleep...now!

Karen