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Here’s hoping to some productive photography this weekend (man.. brain fried from work.. I kept typing “productful” and wondering why it didn’t sound right.

On a random note.. leon’s msn nickname is “L” and the first thing I thought of was that little red band.

So I’m expanding my surfing outside of the typical half a dozen bookmarks that I’ve got on my work computer.. It’s like I’m unable to add more bookmarks or something. Anyhow, for the most part I don’t like reading blogs and the sites of these really talented musicians, photographers etc. because a little part of me is jealous and a bigger part of me makes me realize where I am and that my life in comparison feels like a waste.

Anyhow, I’ve come across a few cool sites/blogs. I’ll just recount how I surfed.. Yesterday I found a wedding photography forum and it housed one thread entitled something like “Help! shooting friend’s wedding with 350+kit lens!” and inside one of the seasoned wedding photogs linked to this quite informative blog with 6 posts, or “lessons” on How to shoot a wedding.

Today I revisted it and then found my way to the “Proffesional Photographers” xanga webring and stumbled across this 30 year old asian american photographer, genoVa who is really talented, shoots some amazing shots.. and has this van with crazy cinema displays and a mobile photo studio in it.

Anyhow.. after sighing over that, I went on to another young asian wedding photographer (Xanga, no big surprise that he’s asian). It turns out he studied engineering for four years, worked at some biochem firm but is now pursuing his dream of wedding photography.. being mentored by some established wedding photographer. Anyway, while still a talented guy, the most interesting thing about him is that he’s Christian and he posts about facing the dillema of sitting at a desk and was surrounded by his also newly-graduated friends who “couldn’t wait to go back to school” and older adults who point out that “well that’s life.. get used to it”.

Anyway.. in one of his posts he links to this Washington post article about an experiment they tried, putting one of the best violinists in the world, in the subway, playing some amazing music on his $3.5 million violin. It’s a long article, but a pretty good read.

And again I’m just a little depressed about where I am. Oh Steve, am I settling?

Counting the minutes until I can leave..

Mmm yesterday I impulsively picked up a little catfish, which I kind of regret. I don’t think she’ll survive long since I don’t have a stable aquarium ready for her, but she was so little and cute I couldn’t resist. I’ll still try to keep her alive, so I decided to begin cycling the 5.5g tank. Since the tanks themselves come in at only $10 each at Big Al’s.. I’ll just try to maintain a simpler tank for now. You can see the tank starting to go through it’s nitrogen cycle process above. It’s quite pretty.. and the 24-70 is a fantastic lens.

Virtual real life.

Use your eyes, no worries, just cool stuff, nothing scary or anything, just a little scary at the end, but not like scary like playing Doom….

really awesome stuff.

So.. my friends gave me a fish. My first reaction was.. ah poor fishy will probably die. But it turns out they also gave me a little kit to keep him in. But I feel guilty about putting him into this tiny 1/2 gallon tank. So tomorrow I’m going to hit up walmart and pick up probably a 5 gallon tank and start making him a nice home. Poor guy has been living in a cup most of his life.. supposedly they live to 2-3 years.. I’m curious how long I can keep him alive..

Not sure what to call him yet.. sushi?