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This is an autumnal leaf:

The new camera is so, so beautiful.

Ye new camera arrived on my desk this morning. I don’t really have time to spend with it right now, but I did manage to fool around with it while picking up lunch:

(accidentally deleted this during maintenance, reposting)

I stood under the narrow lintel of the office door, waiting to see if the rain would let up a bit… This morning’s forecast was “a chance of light rain”, so I left my lovely new umbrella at home. The outcome? Trapped in the office while streets flooded over the sidewalks, underpasses so deep in water that cars were wading through water over their axles if they made it at all.

While I waited I watched; there was a lake in the road from the yellow line to just above the level of the sidewalk, and I was immoderately amused by watching the pedestrians leap for cover every time a speeding car sent a tsunami up over the pavement.

Photo courtesy of a certain water-flinging, icecube-tossing partner in crime - why yes, it was a good night out, why do you ask?

I’ve been writing lots of posts lately, but only in my mind and never when I’m near a keyboard. When I am near a keyboard, I have work to do.

So.

1. Yes, I’m working, busting my butt with a handful of the usual suspects in a startup, a real one with funding and an actual honest-to-god customer. We’re at alpha 3 and aside from the usual crumbs in the bed, the product is looking pretty cool indeed. No, I’m not going to link to it or talk about it. But it’s COOL.

2. Sooo fat.

3. Got myself a KICKASS, let me repeat, KICK ASS pair of New Rock boots. They only arrived a couple of days ago and we haven’t gotten off to the best start, but once the blisters heal I think we will be very, very happy together. Yes, they are as heavy as they look. Heavier. And dangerous to those around me, as an unfortunate soul on the other side of the restaurant table discovered last night.

4. New laptop is great, the consort is great, the cats are great, yadda yadda.

5. A new camera is heading my way (eeeeeeeee! EEEEEE!), so I’ve been trying to get back into the picture-taking habit with the old one until this baby arrives, maybe sometime in the next month (it’s a gift so I’m waiting on hand delivery. As it’s a gift I can’t complain about waiting, although the giver of the gift is getting far too much enjoyment out of taunting me about the wait). I’ve put a couple of new photos up on Flickr, more to follow as I find myself increasingly using photoshop as stress therapy during crunches (this is a startup, it’s crunches all the way down).

6. Life is good. Aside from the intolerable fatness of being.

Reading: Peeling the Onion, by Günter Grass. Sumptuous, honest, lyrical. Grass at his best.
Watching: lots of Miyazaki, thanks to an Amazon gift certificate. Yay!
Playing: Killed the WoW account - I was playing because I was used to playing, not because I was having fun; three years is an awful long time to be doing the same thing over and over. Currently dabbling in Guild Wars, CoH/CoV, DDO. I like Guild Wars and DDO but haven’t had much time to devote to them; CoH/CoV I hadn’t played in four years, and really don’t feel myself being drawn back in. Bought Bioshock despite DRM annoyances; loved it but finished it in 25 hours (two days) and haven’t played again, though there really is a lot of replayability. Good game. I haven’t really found anything to engage me yet, so I’m still in the market for a good new game. Someone at EB Games recommended F.E.A.R. (his description of the AI was intriguing), which I picked up and will install when I have a free moment.
Listening: to everything. Curse iTunes for making it so easy to spend money on music!

To close, the single best riposte I’ve come up with all year. I’m so proud of myself:

Friend: I went to a single-sex school.
Bill: “Please sir, I can have some more?”