Mock Spring must be in the air because things are happening, despite the freezing rain. Yesterday morning the housing inspector gave me his sign-off (there are no longer any “H for Hazardous” items in my house) and this afternoon the house has its first scheduled showing. Eep! We’re hiding out at Cake Eater Bakery while that’s happening, and going swimming on the way home. Well, the kid will be swimming. I still feel lousy and am going to sit it out with a book.
Five interesting non-property related items of note:
- A one-man arts scene, a great piece on my artist acquaintance friend Andy Sturdevant.
- The end of the line: Last typewriter factory left in the world closes its doors
- Been loving the hell out of The Oscillation’s latest release, Veils
- In news of the good, we at Clockwork have long talked about building a treadmill desk, to share. And some good Clockworkers made it happen! Just yesterday I snapped photos of it in use and one of them wound up in an NPR News Blog post today: Health-Chair Reform: Walk, Don’t Sit At Your Desk. And more of my photos are in Clockwork’s blog post about it: We Made a Sweet Walkstation for $10 and Some Wood Scraps
- Lastly? 60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos. Wow.
In recent weeks I have managed to get away from some of the big life stress for a bit. For a long weekend, in California, and in shorter bursts locally. To see Low at First Avenue. And then, just days later, I was back there for the most amazing show with The Budos Band and Charles Bradley. At both I focused on the performances instead of shooting the shows. It was kind of a pleasant change, enjoying the experience rather than documenting it. I don’t know if there are any other shows in my foreseeable future unfortunately. But the little man and I do have some catching up to do with an old friend, and his kids. And some Childish movies to catch before the end of the Minneapolis-St Paul International Film Fest. Which we may as well do while the weather is still cold and crappy.
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