Back from Pennsic as of yesterday afternoon, rather later than
I'd planned (about 15 hours worth). Didn't do anywhere near as
much shooting as I'd intended; only ten rolls, four of which
are still loaded. I was pretty busy early on selling copies
of the Homespun Ceilidh Band CD, performing a bit (one other
band member was there, plus our producer, and a longtime friend
of the band who we recruited to play bodhran) and hanging out
with The Once And Future Girlfriend (my love life is a whole
'nuther saga); later I was busy being a minister to two fellow
Christians, a Witch, an atheist, and a fledgling Pagan of unspecified
path, and sharing Shabbas dinner with a handful of Jews. All in
all a rather busily ecumenical (in a broad sense) few days at the
end there. But I did get a _little_ shooting in. And I sold
a bunch of CDs. I'll be busy for a while unpacking, doing
laundry, getting ahold of my boss to find out what I should be
working on next, and coordinating stuff with people I met at the
War. Not sure how long it'll be before I get this film developed;
some of last year's film is still in my freezer. (I also never
got around to trying to sell reprints this year.)
Got home to find a bounced-check notice -- a deposit I mailed
before I left took eleven days to clear, versus the three days
deposits usually take. Because the USPS took longer than it
ever had before, I've got that little mess to take care of.
On the last day of Pennsic, I lost a lens cap. Retracing
my steps to try to find it, I ran into a lord and lady who'd
picked it up. We got to talking about cameras, the name Pentax
was mentioned, and the gentleman said he had a Pentax that
was given to him in return for his having restored it and a
couple of others that had been pulled from the ocean. He
wanted to know what I could tell him that was good to know
about Pentax. Well, that took a while in the telling, of
course, there being so much good to say about Pentax. The
camera in question turned out to be a K1000, and apparently
it had been underwater long enough to have barnacles growing
on it that he'd had to remove. He said it wasn't all that
much work to restore! (And the cult of the K1000 gets yet
another boost...)
-- Glenn
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