The Spotmatic that my cousin gave me has a sticky shutter… I did get the battery for the light meter and that part does work, but the sticky shutter would probably cost about as much to fix as replacing the camera with another one like it. So it might not be worth it, I haven’t decided yet.
I’ve got a three part plan of attack for my career. Step one is to approach someone about Andy’s old position, even if they’re only willing to offer some sort of assistant director position. If that fails, step two is to contact Charlie from the ropes course training/inspection/construction company about working for him or any other ropes courses that have steadier work than my Y is offering me. If that doesn’t work out, step three is a school in Arizona which offers a degree program in Outdoor/Adventure education. I haven’t been able to bring myself to accomplish step one, yet. The brand new Executive Director was a legitimate reason to delay, but I don’t think I can justify it any more.
With all the time off I’ve had lately, I’ve been itching to get out and go somewhere. Instead of taking the road trip I desired, though, I convinced myself that it was financially irresponsible. It was a total cop-out, but I’m kinda glad I did it, because I did get to catch up with a few kinda local friends that I had been ignoring a lot for the last few months. I’m still longing for the long roadtrip, but haven’t determined if I’ll have the time off that I need to do it yet. It’s hard when I barely get my schedule a month in advance and with Ropes in the state it’s in.
The new band only had that one practice, and various things, however little they’ve been explained, have prevented us from getting together again. I do really want to try playing again, but I don’t know if prying into the reasons it hasn’t been happening is something I really want to do. There’s a break-up and some other touchy stuff involved, i think. There may be another offer on the horizon, though, we’ll see, I guess.
I’ve had some new webspace all lined up for almost a month now, but haven’t decided what to move first or how to do it. Whether I should attempt the CPanel back-up idea, tweaking all the settings once the sites are in place, so that they work again… or if I should just do fresh installs and import the databases.
I don’t seem to have the motivation to get beyond the planning/contemplation stages of any of these things.
It’s not as tragic as when I went to college and came back to find out Eleni’s Midnite Cafe was about to close, but finding out a couple days before a visit home that the Java Hut is going to close after this weekend is a little sad. I can’t say it’s shocking or earth-shattering, but it’s not good news. I spent a lot of time there. The Overtones were, essentially, born there, out of the ashes of Just For Sundae and our devotion to making the Open Mic happen by running the list and donating PA equipment. I’ve added it to my list of things to do while back east. I hope they can still make me a good sandwich. One myspace bulletin with a rumor led to a google search that brought up a surprising amount of blogs about the closing… so here I am joining the blogwagon again.
). Got another Adventure Ed overnight this week (and next week). There’s pictures from last week’s trip on the 
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