The photoclub met tonight at Craigdarroch Castle. I chose it since I had never been there before. I most likely won’t be going back. Sure it is a nice building, but there wasn’t much else on the grounds. Perhaps I just wasn’t into shooting tonight. Noone else was there either. In any event, I was definitely feeling less than inspired. Imagine my surprise when I got home and looked at my shots and discovered that I actualy liked a few of them! :jawdrop:
I liked the little touches (the explanation as to why he created ears on his cowl) that really helped me suspend disbelief. The background info on how batman came to be with all his toys and fighting skills was also covered, and again, was very well done.
In short, I loved this movie. I want to go see it again. Our seats were pretty close to the screen, so I missed some of the dialog, and the action. I just want to see it again. I don’t say that about too many movies.
Busy, busy (and tiring) day. Mike (a coworker) and I went for a spin at the dump with our dogs. We rode pretty much non stop for between 1.5 and 2 hours. When I got home I did a little computing, then started cleaning up the house a bit. I tossed back a couple PB & J sandwiches, grabbed my cleats and a couple T’s then it was off to pickup Ulti. I got there around 1:30 and left at 3:45
I am a little exhausted but it was a lot of fun. The ride was good and challenging. I ran into a couple people I hadn’t seen in a while: Loch and Naomi. They had gotten seperated from their group.
Ulti was really fun today. Running around in the sun playing with a hunk of plastic. I felt pretty good throughout the whole game, but got run down when the points were long (the wind played havoc with the game). I felt like I played a pretty strong game, but my feet paid the price as I developed blistes on both feet. Hopefully I will be good to go in time for Wednesdays game.
All in all I think I deserved that beer I drank tonight.
Tuesday night was the most recent Photoclub meeting. I chose the Kinsmen Gorge park (although I think it is called something else now), as the destination. I got there a little early, and since Yoshi was with me, I took him for a short walk. This allowed me to scout out a couple nice locations to shoot. I actually enjoyed the location, and came away with some nice shots.
I got a bad surprise when I got home though. I had forgotten to change the iso setting on my camera, and it was set at 1600. I can see some noise in each of my shots, so that is a little disappointing. Overall it was a good experience. Nice park too. I will definitely go back there.
Sunday I got up a little early, and headed out to the Panorama Rec Centre to watch the Panorama Triathlon. Sox wasn’t in this one, but a couple other of our friends were. Their significant others were there, so I had some company which was fun. I practiced taking action shots, which is definitely a learned art. The overcast sky with slight sprinkling action made me keep the camera hidden as much as I could. Taking pictures of the swim was impossible. Either I was up high looking through the glass, or I was inide the pool area, and having my lens fog up. Aaarg. I think that the race went well for the two guys I was watching. Both looked good at the end of the race. After the race I grabbed a coffee and headed home to meet up with some guests. It was Sox’s bday, and we were having a barbeque.
This is only a few days late, but on Saturday Sox and I joined K and E to watch the Oak Bay Tea Party parade. It was pretty good! I had never been to it before, but for me it was the perfect length. Not too long, not too short. It had a couple marching bands, some fire truck, some military vehicles, and other random floats. Very fun.
After the parade was done we walked down to Willows beach to have a little fun at the midway. We had burgers and mini donuts too. Fun day.
Happy Birthday Sue!
The first was a little red car on Broughton right before Wharf. At first all I saw was garbage truck backing up, but that turned out to be to let oncoming traffic by since the red car was stopped. As I approached, the red car started backing up, evee though there were no reversing lights on the car. I stopped in the middle of the lane, ad car length back. I couldn’t see what the driver was doing, because of glare on the rear window, but I did see an arm flying about. This chick was wacked. She would back up a few feet, stop, then wave her arm about. I finally figureed out that she had missed her turn, and was trying to back up the road to get to it. By this point there were other cars behind me. Despite thinking otherwise I got on my bike, and rode around this crazy woman. As I was passing she was rolling down her window. Not sure what she was trying to accomplish. I think she missed the turn into a parking garage. My strongest advice to her would be to fix her reverse lights, and next time go around the block. It would have taken less time.
Not two blocks away was incident 2. I was riding along Wharf at a pretty good clip, with no traffic around me. As I got close to the cross walk at the foot of Yates a pedestrian approached. Before I knew it, dippy stepped off the curb and crossed right in front of me. Dippy never looked left before crossing the street! Dumbass. I was in a high gear, and never got to gear down before stopping for this guy. Taking off was difficult.
Two clueless people withing a couple blocks within a few minutes.
Today was that day.
I was riding home from work along Esquimalt road. As the light at Head turned red, I stopped in the right hand lane, about a metre from the curb (as is suggested by the BtWW pamphlet).
From the left hand lane a minivan starts creeping right, and ends up diagonal across my lane. I look at the driver (male around late 20’s I would guess), who looks back at me. The passenger is looking at me like I am an idiot. I watch incedulously as said futtbuck motors around the corner, then honks at me. Apparently he wanted me closer to the curb so he could get by. Lameass.
Why do people do crap like this? I hope it isn’t to save time since he would have only saved 30 seconds or so. People tend not to do stupid actions like this when there is a motorbike in the same situation, so why do it to a cyclist? Use your head and think a little.
Then, while I was waiting for the light at Esquimalt and Lampson I can see that in the cross traffic someone was turning left. The traffic behind them was changing lanes into the right turn only lane, and proceeding through the intersection. One guy in the opposing traffic almost got smacked because he turned left also, but someone had done the deak maneuver, so both cars honked at each other.
Morons.
Had a great day. Rode to work: 4.5 km’s. Worked all day, then rode home (another 4.5 km’s).
Packed my stuff and headed back out the door. Back on the bike I rode over to the fields: 7.5 km’s.
I played Ulti, and had a great game. I felt strong throughout the game, and only felt out of breath once. The problem with our team is that we have too many people. There are just too many subs, so I don’t get to play as much as I would like to. Our team won the game which was the icing on the cake.
After the game I jumped back on the bike and rode home: another 7.5 km’s
Fun fun. After a quick bite to eat, and a shower, I am off to bed.