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KSav said:
I hope you have a great birthday, @hollydolly. 😊

I woke up to 2 inches of snow; ugh! I am so, so over winter by this point. I'm meeting my friends later for our weekly coffee, but right now I must get to work. I promised someone I'd have this one particular article to them "first thing" this morning, so I need to get moving on that one because right now it is "morning" but not "first thing."

I'm so glad it's Friday!

Hope everyone is well.
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Good grief... SNOW.... I feel your frustration... snow in April.... sheesh!
 
hollydolly said:
G'afternoon peeps of SF.... 🥂 cheers to you all on My birthday...... 💞 It's overcast today... so not going anywhere... there's supposed to be sunshine over the weekend, so I'll hopefully get out and about then.... On Tuesday I'm getting my cortisone injection in my hip.. so I'm looking at that pain relief as a birthday gift...lol Have the best day you can on my birthday,,....🌺🌺🥰
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hollydolly said:
G'afternoon peeps of SF.... 🥂 cheers to you all on My birthday...... 💞

It's overcast today... so not going anywhere... there's supposed to be sunshine over the weekend, so I'll hopefully get out and about then....

On Tuesday I'm getting my cortisone injection in my hip.. so I'm looking at that pain relief as a birthday gift...lol

Have the best day you can on my birthday,,....🌺🌺🥰
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We're in a beautiful weather pattern for the next couple of weeks. Highs in the mid 70s to low 80s. My perfect weather scenario.

Busy weekend ahead including both littles here tomorrow so I'm going to get some cleaning and laundry out of the way today. First comes my online exercise class though. I'm feeling very good about this balance and strengthening class - can already feel a big difference after only three weeks. :cool:
 
I received a cashier's check for one penny from the bank (closed the account earlier this month, the penny is the interest). Google told me it was better to cash it otherwise it would eventually be listed on missingmoney.com forever, costing public resources to maintain the record of it. Gee, all for a penny.

But, even though I'd already looked in the past on the missing money site, I found three new small amounts and so now I've claimed them and will get almost $250. I was really surprised but I called the Nebraska unclaimed property line and the person told me that it can take up to 20 years for companies to report the abandoned amounts.

So I checked Colorado and although nothing for me, there is some under my mom's name, but the claim form Colorado emailed me requires a ton of documents that I don't have. I think I might try uploading the little that I do have and see what they say (Google thinks they might ask me to sign an affidavit, which sounds easy I guess).

Somehow messing around with that has eaten up my whole day (partly because while looking for documentation I wound up looking at old photos, and organizing a few dozen into labeled virtual albums).
 
Caught a mouse this morning. Heard the trap snap and so did the little dog. Took care of that and for the next few hours, doggie went on the hunt. She checked everywhere, then laid down in the kitchen where she could see throughout this half of the house. She was on high alert. It's actually fun to watch her. She is so serious!
 
Another very intense long day on my HP Omen 35L desktop mostly either writing HTML code for website or reprocessing a few images I'd bypassed earlier and forgot to go back to. 10pm now so will turn it off and pick up a 2004 astronomy book, Privileged Planet, I only skimmed through most of 2 decades ago that I've now reached page 38 of 440 on. Will read it for an hour so I can sleep easier as that kind of computer work often leaves me too mentally hyped up.

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In the morning will rise at 6am then at 7am drive the 3.6 miles to the nationally famous city rose garden mentioned previously, as it opens earlier on the weekend. And this Saturday will have a big crowd by late morning that often includes numbers of wedding parties and their photographers with women dressed up in their elaborate wedding dresses. On average days wind speeds are usually at least 4 mph at sunrise that soon by 8am rises above 6 mph that makes my focus stack blending photography impossible.

The above is tomorrow forecast for a very rare day. Shows a minor amount of clouds that I prefer versus harsh sun. If the sun is out, I use a 32 inch diameter collapsible diffuser to more evenly illuminate my close-up rose subjects. If it is really calm, I can knock off a whole lot of subjects quickly. Most of my time there if not waiting for calm moments to fire off shots, is otherwise, slowly moving about the rows of rose plots using my very experienced visual brain to recognize worthwhile subjects that can actually fit in a rectangular frame well and in a position I can set up my Benbo Tripod to position my a6700 camera in a location with my very sharp Sigma 56mm DC DN prime lens to point at.

Once the camera atop tripod is in the approximate position, there is always some amount of fine position tweaking to optimize frame aesthetics. I use a tiny Bluetooth remote shutter release to fire off the start of Focus Bracket sequences that usually takes less than 5 seconds for say 20 shots at F8.0 and ISO 200.

In the afternoon is a free blues jazz rock band outdoor concert in downtown San Jose I'll probably attend. The rest of my weekend into next week is back on the computer broken up by reading the above book and occasional breaks like this on the web. Will be glad when the programming is complete, though every new group of field work like tomorrow's roses adds to that effort.
 
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