Monthly update here I come. Last update I forgot to mention our trip through a predominately black neighbourhood in Milwaukee while looking for the HD plant. I've never gone through one of those before and it was a bit of an interesting experience. There were a lot of fried chicken restaurants, lots of pawn shops and lots of liquor stores/bars. I'm not trying to stereotype here, that's just how it was. I think in the 20-30 blocks we drove, there were 5 Walgreens stores. Almost every store had bars on the windows as well.

I'll have to see if I can remember everything I've done from the last entry to this one.

It's a bit cool today (-7°C right now). It was pretty nice a couple weeks ago with highs in the high teens. Last night it snowed and there's been flurries blowing around off and on all day. It's supposed to be the same for the rest of the week as well.

I did a Facebook profile. That was just to see what the whole buzz was about. I can't really get into those too much but I have to say it is a lot nicer and more organized than MySpace, which I refuse to join.

I bought a Kodak Baby Brownie Special camera off of Ebay for a couple of dollars. Since then, I also bought a Canon Canonet and a Ricohflex Model VI. I recently found a website of a guy who finds and develops old film and cameras with old film in them to see what turns out. He also takes pictures with various old cameras and puts them up. I like how most old cameras have "personality" in their pictures (they all look a little different) and all old cameras look different than the next. That and they're cheap (I mentioned the price for the Brownie and I got the Canonet for $3. The Ricohflex was a bit more but it came with a 35mm adaptor). I'm hoping I can get some darkroom equipment with my tax refund and start doing some B&W photo developing with some assistance from Vance.

Last weekend we had a birthday get together for Teresa's dad since he's turning 60 this year (today in fact). There were a lot of people in that house and I don't really care for that so I'm in for the same thing this year at Christmas. We got him a Twirl-a-Squirrel as a gift. The website I ordered it from had it in stock when I ordered it (last Tuesday I think it was). I got no shipment verification or a receipt for my purchase but yesterday I got an e-mail telling me it's backordered until April 15th. Thanks for that.

I was offered an early 80's Kawasaki Prairie 250 for free this past weekend from Teresa's sister's boyfriend. I'm hoping I can get a look at it this weekend and take some pictures. It needs a little bit of work but for free I can't complain. I've been spending a good deal of time reading up on it lately so hopefully he doesn't back out of the deal.

I have some pictures to post up in my gallery again but I've gotten a lot of spam comments lately and I've been busy trying to delete all those. Once that's cleaned up, I'll get the pictures up and put up some links.

I think that's about all for now.