Papering the record for appeal.
¶I’ve had to park in the lot across the street from our building the last couple days because road construction has the entrance to our garage blocked. We’ve had nice weather, so I really haven’t minded the change. This photo, taken with the SD780, shows another benefit – it forced me to enter the building from the front, which I’ve rarely done. This morning, as I walked toward the front entrance, I noticed this view that I’ve never really seen before. Amazing.
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¶As I tracked the Norther Venture leaving port, I noticed this little boat on the left waiting patiently for her to pass.
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¶Shipping season is underway! I was happy to see the Northern Venture leaving port this afternoon, as I think it’s a sign we’ll see more shipping traffic on the river soon. We’ve got such a nice view in the office. This just never gets old for me.
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¶Our parking garage is blocked today, so we have to park in the lot across the street. The Ohio state flag is still at half mast for Pope Francis.
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¶The reason for the detour.
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¶A detour has me passing this house every day. Abandoned? Hard to tell.
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¶I drive past this parked car every day. The garage door just out of frame has a “No Parking” sign on it. I wanted to capture that with the car, but forgot I had the camera zoomed all the way in. So…I missed it. This little camera is tricky.
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¶I tried capturing some photographs with the SD780 on the way into the office this morning. The hack (CHDK) seems to have slowed it down a bit…the camera captures the image a second or two after you press the shutter button. I was stopped at a traffic light when I pressed the shutter button for this capture. I think I started moving right afterward, and the camera captured the image once I was underway, making it a bit blurry.
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¶This morning was incredibly frustrating but ultimately turned incredibly joyful and, I think, provided a story I’ll tell for years to come.
¶As background, I lost my wedding ring several years ago. Three, maybe five years ago. At the time of losing it, I had “locked in” on home being the last place I had it. I was confident it had to be somehwhere around the spots in the house where I usually handle it during the day – my nightstand, the closet, my family room chair, etc. So, over the last few years, I’ve turned each of those spots upside down looking for it. I’ve even repeated that process multiple times, knowing that I had done it before. It didn’t take long for me to reach that mental state where a lost item is nagging away at you, seemingly constantly. It was a low-level gnaw, but it was there, always. And it’s my wedding ring!
¶So you probably know where this story is going – I did in fact find my wedding ring this morning. What led to that is really the story, though.
¶I’ve been experimenting with an old Canon SD780 IS point and shoot camera over the last several days. I wrote about that yesterday, and have been having a lot of fun with it. I was planning to take a few photos on my way to work again this morning. As I got in the car and reached into the pocket in my backpack where I’ve been storing the camera, I realized it wasn’t there. I knew – knew – I had put it there just moments earlier as I packed up in the family room. What the heck happened to it? So, I went back to my chair in the family room and looked all around it, but found nothing. Doubt set in, and I convinced myself that I must not have put it in the pocket as my memory had told me. So I explored every other nook and cranny in the backpack.
¶No camera.
¶At this point, I’m doubting everything. Did I take it upstairs last night? I don’t think so, but…maybe? I tried to remember the physical details of my use of the camera last night, a trick I always tell Jake to do when he’s looking for something he lost. I could feel the memory of putting my computer down next to my chair, removing the memory card, and putting that back into the camera. But what did I do with the camera after that? My next memory was putting it into my backpack this morning, which my eyes had just told me could not have happened.
¶So it had to be in the chair…maybe. I ran my hand through the cushions and the back. Nothing. I turned on the flashlight on my phone and looked under the chair. Nothing. I’m not sure why I took this next step (I’ve looked for lost items in this chair many times over the years, and have never done this), but for some reason I raised the footrest and proceeded to use it to physically lift the chair, tipping it back a bit.
¶No camera.
¶But I heard a tink, and then the sound of something rolling along the floor, circling tighter and tighter, and then settling in a spot behind the chair. I caught a glimpse of something gold as it was rolling and I knew right away that I had found my ring. In a sort of Lord of the Rings moment, I dropped the chair and lunged for it. My precious wedding ring! After all these years, I had it back! I was so happy, mostly because I had my ring back but also because I knew the gnaw now would be gone. It took a few minutes, but I eventually realized that part of my happiness was due to knowing that I had been right all along – it had been sitting in one of the places I figured for the last few years. Eventually I realized that this also meant that my searches of those places had not been thorough enough. I should have turned everything upside down a fifth or sixth time, apparently.
¶Renee had left early so I didn’t get to tell her about it right away. I left for work and mostly forgot about the camera. Mostly. When I came home, I started thinking about how I was going to tell Renee about the ring (I decided to not say anything, just keeping it on my finger until she noticed it). I got out of the car, turned toward my workbench and noticed something black on the floor. There lied the camera, lens-side down on the concrete, wedged under the black case for my circular saw. I picked it up, turned it on, and smiled as everything seemed to be in working order (it is). It must have fallen from the top pocket in my backpack – the very pocket in which I knew I had placed it this morning, tumbled onto the floor, and slid beneath the case as I was focused on putting the backpack in the back seat. Says alot for the durability of these old cameras.
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¶It feels like something in Trump world broke yesterday. Or, more likely, that yesterday provided the first public actions resulting from a coordinated effort to walk away from the failed “policies” of his first months in office, without acknowledging failure of course. Consider the following, each of which happened yesterday:
¶With any luck, yesterday will prove to have been some sort of a watershed moment signalling a change from the disgrace we’ve been living since Trump returned to the Presidency. Please forgive me, though, as I remain extremely skeptical that he is capable of listening to good advice (assuming someone has his ear) or even perceiving reality.
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‘Conclave’ Viewership Shot Up 283 Percent Following Pope Francis’ Death (wired.com)
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Appeasing Donald Trump Won’t Work (vanityfair.com)
¶The lesson from Harvard is: Stay visible, stay loud, and stay fighting. That’s the only way for institutions to survive what’s coming.
¶Columbia will forevermore be compared to Harvard for its response to Trump’s attacks. Columbia caved, while Harvard planned to fight, stood its ground when the attack came, and then started punching.
¶Our connection to Harvard is a thin one (our son is an alum), but we’ve never been more proud to have it.
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First House Republican calls for Pete Hegseth’s removal in the wake of Signalgate 2.0 (independent.co.uk)
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Joe Biden accused of editing himself into family Easter photo (independent.co.uk)
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Google says DOJ's proposal for breakup would harm U.S. in 'global race with China' (cnbc.com)
¶This argument rings a bit hollow when it comes from a behemoth that has crushed innovation for years.
¶“That would hold back American innovation at a critical juncture. We’re in a fiercely competitive global race with China for the next generation of technology leadership, and Google is at the forefront of American companies making scientific and technological breakthroughs.”
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¶The Ohio state flag is at half mast today in a showing of respect for Pope Francis, who died yesterday.
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¶Construction for a new walking trail has been approaching our building for a couple weeks. I think it has arrived. Happy to see it, though, as the new trail will be really nice.
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¶A self portrait of sorts.
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¶Parking rates have increased over recent years, a positive sign for downtown Toledo imo.
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¶Despite years of revitalization, downtown Toledo still has plenty of abandoned buildings.
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¶Ted’s Hamburger Shop was a staple in downtown Toledo for decades. I’ve always thought it’s a shame the Shop didn’t make it into the recent revitalization that has arrived in downtown. I’ve also wondered why the building hasn’t been demolished. I imagine someone just doesn’t have the heart to do it.
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¶Smokestacks from a cement plant (I think).
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¶I decided to snap some shots with the PowerShot on the way into the office this morning. The camera did a nice job of capturing the beauty of this morning.
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¶Jake and I resurrected a couple of old Canon PowerShot SD780 IS cameras over the weekend. They’re old point and shoot cameras from about 2008 or so. Jake said his friends have been using old point and shoots as their primary cameras and he wanted to give it a go. So, I ordered a battery charger from Amazon and away we go. Meanwhile, I learned about CDHK, the Canon Hack Development Kit, which enables RAW shooting and some other amazing features. So…I’m going to start having some fun with that.
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¶It looks like we’re in for a good ole-fashioned, April all-day soaker today. I’m not upset…should make for a nice relaxing Saturday. I’m planning to shoot some more shell photos this afternoon. I’ll probably process them while watching the Guardians game later this afternoon.
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