Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/4.5, 1/80 sec, ISO3200 “Green” Cedar Park, 2021
Today’s snapshot if of my Pilot Kakuno and Iroshizuku Chiku-rin ink. I am really enjoying this combination!
For 2021 (and for the previous month) I’ve been writing and doodling in my Traveler’s Notebook. It’s a fun experience, and very different for digital note-taking and drawing for me. I think digital has many advantages over analog, but writing by hand is kind of… heartwarming? Good for the soul? A connection to reality? I can’t explain so well, but I think it adds something positive to my daily life and rounds out my well-being.
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/2.8, 1/90 sec, ISO3200 “Just Hangin” Cedar Park, 2021
I don’t consider myself an avid movie-watcher, but since we got rid of our cable/satellite television a few years back, my tv-time has been spent on Netflix watching feature films and short tv series. I keep a list of the movies I watch, and in 2020 I watched 49, which is a pretty big number for me. Perhaps the pandemic has skewed the number a bit higher, but probably not by much since I also like to go to the theater and those outings have been stopped of course. Besides knowing the total count, it’s fun to look back at the years to see what I watched.
On the same page I keep track of the books I’ve read throughout the year, but I also participate in the yearly reading challenge on Goodreads. For 2020 I set a goal of 20 books to read, and I ended up finishing 35. I’m particularly proud of that! One thing that made my year of reading special was that I started reading audiobooks. What a fantastic way to read!
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Today’s photo is a snapshot of one of my desk “residents”. I have three of the Pinky:St figures, but this one is my favorite.
Photo info: FUJIFILM X-T10, 35mm, f/4, 1/50 sec, ISO1600 “Osechi” Cedar Park, 2021
We kicked off the new year with another delicious traditional osechi. In addition to the usual awesome dishes, we had some saba (mackerel) that our friends prepared for us and it was excellent. I love saba so much!
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/2.8, 1/100 sec, ISO2500 “Soba” Cedar Park, 2020
This year, we each had a huge serving of soba. The long noodles symbolize a long life, so I made a point to finish my noodles this year, and since we had so much soba I expect to live forever! 😂
