It’s a sock-weight yarn, but I can’t decide if I actually want to make socks with it, or fingerless gloves, or perhaps a lacy shawl thing. Suggestions? It’s so hard to correctly convey the colors; I really need to calibrate my monitors, but it’s a beautiful pink/grey yarn with a lot of subtle shading. It’ll also be warm, since it’s mostly alpaca. I just love the feel of alpaca.

Anyway. You’ve now had a week of uninterrupted photos of the day. Don’t you feel special? You should.

In less fun news, Logan’s officially getting sick, and I’m trying to tell myself that my sore throat is only a sore throat and that I didn’t pick anything up talking to 4 classes of 8th graders on Friday or at the glee club retreat. We’ll see what’s more likely, but I’m popping vitamin C lozenges like they’re candy. (Oh wait, they are pretty much…)

This is not an appetizing description. Mmm.. Artificial hybrids. Creepy.

In other news, I’m officially pathetic. I didn’t take the elevator at all today (office is on the fourth floor), and now I’m quite sore. Sad, really.

I did see this cool tree though:

While on campus today, I notice this leaky fire hydrant. It had a light spray that had melted the area of snow right by it, but the whole area was covered in a shell of ice. Cool to see, but I hope they fix the hydrant soon!

As a bonus today, I’ll also throw in a photo from my childhood. I apparently need to bring a baby picture to the retreat, and this is what my mother sent me:

Yesterday, I found two more example’s of “Duck’s” graffiti:


I still don’t get it.

And today. Today I went and picked up a cheesecake from Old World Bakery. They make Ann Arbor-style cheesecakes. Awhile ago I won a gift certificate from my favorite radio station, but since the bakery isn’t open all that much, it took me awhile to make it there. It’s quite tasty though. We’ll have to see how well it freezes, because it’s an awfully big cheesecake for Logan and me.

Now that I’m back, I have more work to do to get my laptop up to date as my primary computer. Unfortunately, my previous version of Photoshop Elements wasn’t made for the intel-based macs, so now I find myself without a real photo program. I’d been debating previously about whether I should get Adobe’s Lightroom or Apple’s Aperture for photo management, and now it’s pretty clear that I should get one or the other. They should be able to handle the every day photo editing I need. I may need to get Elements in the future too, but I might see if I can get away with GIMP or some such. At the moment, I’m playing around with the Aperture trial, and while I like it, I’m a bit concerned about speed issues. Lightroom is supposed to be faster, but Aperture seems more flexible. Anyone have any experience with either?

While waiting for the bus yesterday, I saw this:

Duck? I don’t get it. Do you?

And today you get a photo from the Glee Club. For every home football game, we go out and sing for the tailgaters to raise some money. Today was the game with MSU – big rivalries equal big money. Unfortunately for the home team, the game didn’t go so well. The singing did, though, even if it was a bit cold. I couldn’t feel my hands or feet at a couple points. (And yes, I was wearing gloves.)