Chugging away

A couple of weeks ago I set about a project to make an image of Jude that was taken from photos but would look like a fantasy book cover. Don't ask me why, it just seemed like a good thing to do at the time. The image hereabouts is a tiny segment of the finished result. I kinda like it, but then I would, it was my project.

Have a few other shoots to be doing before leaving for Canadia and a run up there to have someone make the car legal next week. Will take pictures.

Other than that it's a bit of organizing, gym sessions that suddenly have me sweating like Elton John in a winebar and constant bids to tire the dog enough to have the neighbors believe that she's angelic.

Also love dealing with me new landlord. I wrote asking him about the policy of our new building toward satellite dishes as I want to get as many HD channels as possible but didn't want to fall foul of the resident's committee. This was his reply...

"For the TV, the following story is cute. I’ve lived in the condo for six
years and I always had a set of antennas for my TV, which was installed
beside the fireplace, and received a handful of channels.

In the last year (of the six), we had moved the TV downstairs because it was easier with the
newborn, being on the same floor. But the reception was poorer than
upstairs so I plugged the cable that was never used/tested before to see if
connecting the TV to a longer wire (to be used as an antenna) would produce
better reception. It sure did! With much more channels. That white cable
in the living room was online and for the last year we had the over 30
channels. Never asked or paid for the service.
To answer the question, I don’t know if a satellite dish is installed with
the other tenants."


He's great, I like him.

Things slowly getting sorted

We finally confirmed movers today... so we should be on our way to Montreal in mid June.

I also managed to get the business number and tax ID for one of my companies, so I'll be able to work
Plus things are happening on the work front with the 'business proper' - which is a good thing, I think

Other than that it's been a day of heavy gym work outs, lots of work and a cancelled photo shoot due to all say thunderstorms that have only now given way to the kind of glorious sunshine that begs to be walked in.

That's about it - close to running out to buy food for the week... so have to stop.
But as a T-shirt asked today

:If rainbows are such happy things... why are they always frowning?:

Oh for the fat lady

I have to say that I'm getting somewhat sick and tired of the pantomime that goes with moving.

All of the "Oh yes you can" / "Oh no you can't" stuff is driving me insane.

An example. In order to get the car into Canada we need lots of things.
One is to install a Canadian Immobilizer.

"Of course we can" - say dealership
"Impossible" - say Suzuki
"Oh no, we can't" say dealership
"Oh, but you must" say Canada
"Well you're gonna gave to sell" say Suzuki
"Bollocks" say the aftermarket places
"Good" say I to the aftermarket places
"We're no in Quebec though" say aftremarkey guys
"Bugger" I say

And start to plan a day trip to Ontario

That's a whole day right there

Life on the road

It's a holiday weekend here and our last weekend in the States that doesn't have some kind of event planned for it. So yesterday e dropped the dog off at a Daycare center that's now looking more like Southfork than it is the usual cement shed and headed 155 miles across State - first to Holland, MI with its windmills, ye olde Dutch attractions and hoards of 'trying not to look disappointed' Japanese. Still we managed to get some Dutch food and some 'baby sprinkles' for a shower that Jude was attending today.

From Holland we went down to Oval Beach - which was disappointing in that it was cold, narrow, packed with people and lacked any kind of personality... but still, it was on the way to Saugernauk (or something) which proved to be a charming little lakeside town with some rather splendid boutiques....

170 miles home and off with some friends for Dinner... then on to a bar famed for its dueling pianists... a lot of base fun had there and a bunch of bachelorette parties who lived for the photo. There's a business to be had in shooting bachelorette parties. Not sure it's a business for someone of my advanced years but the chance to have them all line up with their backs to me facing the bar's vintage trough urinal had me salivating in a way that a 100 year old, claw footed, free standing piss trough shouldn't.

Not a bad day at all... and now for posh BBQ in Detroit with a very persistent (thankfully) old friend