252/365 A Small Post-Meal Snack

252/365 A Small Post-Meal Snack
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Just a medium banana split at Lizzy's on Moody Street. (there is no small)

251/365 Graphic Failure

251/365 Graphic Failure
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

So much for the new graphics card. I've since reinstalled Ubuntu, and will try loading the drivers again...later.

250/365 Sunset at Logan

250/365 Sunset at Logan
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

249/365 Guest singers

249/365 Guest singers
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Malcolm and Steven jump in with Lindy Hop Heaven for a few songs.

248/365 Learning the routine

248/365 Learning the routine
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Choreography class with Nathan and Gina.

[UPDATE 2009sep13] Video of the performance here.

247/365 New Orleans Style

247/365 New Orleans Style
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Peter Davis and Lindy Hop Heaven at Swing Out New Hampshire, starting a set from the middle of the dance floor.

246/365 Leader Learning

246/365 Leader Learning
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Class with Joel and Evita at Swing Out New Hampshire.

245/365 short-term mitigation strategy

245/365 short-term mitigation strategy
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

It figures that my arm starts hurting just as I arrive to the first night of dance camp. The last time I was at camp, I was recovering from hand surgery and had a brace on my left thumb and wrist.

Dancing seemed to make it worse, so the plan was to take it easy, take ibuprofen and ice enough to be able to keep dancing through late Sunday night.

244/365 Keepin' It Reel

244/365 Keepin' It Reel
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

While I don't mind that we're not burning fossil fuels to mow our lawn, the main reason we have a reel mower is because I can't be trusted to maintain a gasoline-powered engine.

243/365 Unexpected passenger

243/365 Unexpected passenger
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

242/365 So much for time-saving

242/365 So much for time-saving
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Sewing machine FAIL.

The SOOTTAD ended up having to do her alterations by hand.

241/365 Ducks and a Gull

241/365 Ducks and a Gull
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

240/365 Overly Coordinated

240/365 Overly Coordinated
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

I'll occasionally find that my shorts and shirt match, but I don't usually expect them to also match my sports drink.

239/365 Double FAIL

239/365 Double FAIL
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Still not having any luck getting the second display to operate as an independent workspace. I'm glad I found the 1920x1080 monitor because it's a lot easier to troubleshoot a screen just to the right than a projected image that's behind and over your shoulder. (plus, it's not burning minutes off our projector lamp)

Nevertheless, it would be nice if I could get it up and running. Sadly, I don't feel like I'm really going to learn much from this exercise other than how to get two displays with separate workspaces running in Ubuntu. I guess it's learning, but it's specialized but probably not applicable elsewhere.

238/365 Receipt Bloat

238/365 Receipt Bloat
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Irritated enough by the extreme ridiculousity of the receipt from a Staples purchase that I had to take a picture of it. (and not many other pictures today.) It's mostly rebate stuff, but... wow. And the rebate price wasn't much better than the price at Costco, except that I won't get it for 6-8 weeks and it'll be in the form of a Visa gift card. Not thrilled with the whole experience.

Otherwise, not a bad day. A bit on the warm side, but not overly humid. Track workout (hard) in the morning. Appointment with the nurse practitioner in order to get Xrays because I started worrying that my wrist might actually be fractured -- but no word yet on that.

I keep wondering whether I should find a new doctor. The NP has misdiagnosed me at least twice (missed a torn ligament and whooping cough on separate occasions) and then the pamphlets on osteoporosis, type 2 diabetes and bereavement counseling make me consider I'm in the wrong demographic. I had some photos of the pamphlets but they weren't very interesting, and I missed an opportunity to get one of the v!agra-branded wall clock -- seems like there should be a good v!agra/bone-density joke in there somewhere. (fingers-crossed that this post doesn't generate comment spam or ridiculous hits for the ED references.)

237/365 Tomato diversity

237/365 Tomato diversity
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Yay, tomatoes! (Take that tomato blight. No wait, don't take it. Please, please don't take it.)

236/365 Nauset Light Beach

236/365 Nauset Light Beach
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

I was talked into driving to the cape to surf the post-Hurricane swells. It's about 100 miles each way, taking a bit under 2 hours (which is why we tried Narragansett for our first forays into surfing in the northeast); gratefully, no traffic at all. (From what I heard, they didn't let people in the water on the big overhead surf days over the weekend, which is unfortunate, because I imagine that it'd be fun to just go and watch even if I couldn't surf that stuff.)

A beautiful day, and the waves were of goodly size, but it was a bit choppy at times and honestly, I'm not really good enough for even the smaller 5-6' waves. Plus, getting used to yet another board didn't help. (this time I got a 9'4" surftech longboard from Nauset Surf in Orleans -- only $20/day! Good prices for buying boards, too, at least compared to the shop we've been to in Narragansett.)

Still, a nice day to be out at the beach.

235/365 Slimey McGiantslug

235/365 Slimey McGiantslug
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

234/365 Picking Blueberries

234/365 Picking Blueberries
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

...at the SOOTTAD's parental homestead.

Got totally devoured by mosquitoes, but we did get blueberries and blackberries as compensation, which I guess makes it worth it.

233/365 Grapes of all sizes

233/365 Grapes of all sizes
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

[UPDATE: 26Aug2009] Unfortunately, it looks like most of these have been eaten by the stupid opossum.