The Coffee House

[pgriz]

Class from 10 - 11:50. 1,478 steps.

My, you do a lot of pacing. How much of that is back-pedaling and how much is forward charging? Because not all steps are created equal. I know from experience that back-pedaling steps cost me much more in energy than the reckless abandon forward charging steps. There may also be a relation between the two (mind you, I'm speaking of personal experience. your "mileage" may vary).

 

[bribrius]

yeah..... I have like eight cameras now. I bring her out shooting, she leaves it in auto and just takes a couple photos of me. That is it for three hours out shooting. She takes two photos of me shooting. The sl1 would just end up lost, misplaced, or sitting in the box somewhere.

if she enjoys spending time with you and only takes 3 pictures, then all is fine.

Pretty much. Also, try spicing it up a little............... go for some nudies!!! Ya never know........ it could open up a whole new relationship!!

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something else snerd, is i need stuff i can put in a portfolio, competitions maybe, online. At the least I need to up the quality. And clearly i can't use my wife for that i have some tact. Also i really am at the beginner level with portraits. I know very little. I need to work on simple professional portraiture. Then maybe work my way into fine art with it. So i need usable material in which to improve. The stuff i shot from before was before i was married with children, years ago, and had a very different element to it. I didn't even consider off camera flash, had little to no model releases. Hardly knew some of their names. A lot of it was who i knew, drugs they were into. Tv stayed on the playboy channel pretty much 24 hours a day.

People in and out all the time. Going to party houses occasionally. So you see some stuff, and me always being the reserved one sitting back having some drinks with a camera i managed to photograph some interesting stuff. But shooting a blond on a dirty carpet on her hands and knees in someones apartment and doing classical professional portraiture are very different things. Although not everything i shot was quite that bad (some actually pretty decent) I need to work on more professional classical type stuff now. At a professional level. I also don't want that element around my family. It was fine then, things are a much different now. I don't need drunk people banging on my door at 2 a.m. Hell, there were times i woke up in the morning and people were crashed out in my house and i wasn't even sure who they were. Different times. And plus i have off camera flash now i just need to learn how to use it effectively.

 

[Designer]

Class from 10 - 11:50. 1,478 steps.

That's a lot of steps! Do you pace when you talk? I do when speaking on the telephone.

 

[Designer]

"donchaknow" . . . Have you spent time in Bawlmer?

No, but I've heard people from there.

 

[bribrius]

i really should get off my but and go run errands at least.... zero ambition. You all with your walking computers clearly have more ambition than i do.

 

[snerd]

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Dude............ I was just trying to spice up ya'll's relationship, is all. I guess it went over your head. Kinda like my soon-to-be-ex wife......... she would listen, but never heard a word I said. Oh well.

ETA: Well, that didn't sound like I meant it. I wasn't criticizing you. Just pointing out what I meant to do. Sorry!

 

[snerd]

The ice stopped after an hour last night, and we pretty much missed it completely! Heading for moving truck as we speak!!

 

[astroNikon]

... Kinda like my soon-to-be-ex wife......... she would listen, but never heard a word I said. Oh well.

Wish you the best of luck in that situation too, especially since all your recent ailments.

 

[bribrius]

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Dude............ I was just trying to spice up ya'll's relationship, is all. I guess it went over your head. Kinda like my soon-to-be-ex wife......... she would listen, but never heard a word I said. Oh well.

We don't have a romantic relationship anyway, closer to a contract or business arrangement. . Like 1950's. We aren't like most couples. I really could care less what she does long as it doesn't undermine the house and finances to any large extent.

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Dude............ I was just trying to spice up ya'll's relationship, is all. I guess it went over your head. Kinda like my soon-to-be-ex wife......... she would listen, but never heard a word I said. Oh well.

ETA: Well, that didn't sound like I meant it. I wasn't criticizing you. Just pointing out what I meant to do. Sorry!

You shouldn't worry yourself about it. I don't. Couldn't care less.

 

[limr30 3]

Class from 10 - 11:50. 1,478 steps.

That's a lot of steps! Do you pace when you talk? I do when speaking on the telephone.

I never sit down when I'm teaching. I walk around as I talk, back and forth so that I am "addressing" different parts of the room. While they are doing an activity, I'm walking around checking on them or answering questions. And yes, sometimes they're doing their activity, I've already checked on them all and they're doing fine, and I just am waiting for them to finish...I do pace quite a bit.

These classes can be long and I understand that not all people find grammar and writing quite as fascinating as I do. If I talked at them while standing still - or worse! sitting at a desk - I would lose these students in less than a minute. I am the one responsible for setting an energetic tone so they can follow along and remain engaged in the material, so if I am static, they will be, too.

Plus, I've got that whole Southern-European-talking-with-my-hands nervous energy thing going on I'm also fidget a lot when I'm sitting.

 

[bribrius]

its a reely nice day out rite now. i wunder wat the temprachure is.

 

[sm4him]

Well, my plan for the day has not worked out. I was going to go home about 1 p.m., take a nap, relax a while, in anticipation of roads getting bad later this afternoon, and having to work late into the evening (I'm the one who has to update our website, social media and all other media outlets when our transit system operating status changes due to bad weather).

I *am* at least at home, but I didn't get my nap. We had to go to snow routes at 12:15 p.m. because the roads are really icing over quickly.
What REALLY stinks is--the air temperature is 25F, so HOW do we end up with sleet and freezing rain instead of SNOW, which would be much easier to deal with???

Well, I am home, keeping all my electronics charged up, listening to the dispatch radio, updating FB and Twitter, answering questions...drinking coffee....

and suddenly realizing that in all the flurry of activity, I kinda didn't get to eat lunch! Gotta remedy that.

 

[minicoop1985]

19* here. Actually, it's a damned heat wave compared to the last week

 

[bribrius]

we just hit 15. i took a photo of the snow out back earlier. Had chinese for lunch. About it. LOL

 

[limr30 3]

Mmmm, hadn't had Chinese in a long time. Could really go for some mu chu.