daily slice-of-life photo blog of a Gen-X dad
こんばんは。How’s it going?
Today’s photo is of some new stickers I bought from Redbubble? Can you see the theme? It’s Splatoon! I just love the designs for the imaginary brands. I think they are so cool. I am deciding which one to put on my Subaru… my kids don’t want me to, but I think it will be fun!
I hope you had a nice day.
またね～
こんばんは。Howzit?
Ever since I bought my new car, I’ve missed some nice cloud/sunset shots because the bag in which I I keep my camera is often on the back seat. The Odyssey had a center tray which was great for keeping my bag on top of, and so my X100T was always close at hand. But not so with the Crosstrek. In order to rectify this unacceptable situation, I now keep a different camera in the glove box so I can take those quick shots.
In today’s photo, you can see that camera sitting in the cup holder. It’s my wife’s old Sony NEX-6 camera, which she hasn’t used it since she bought her Fujifilm X-T10 last year, and has been sitting on the shelf collecting dust. It was easy to sell the NEX-6 lenses on Craigslist, but the camera body and kit lens had some wear and tear, so I never tried to sell it. It operates perfectly, though, and for one-handed operation, I think it’s even better than the X100T.
Besides being easy to use, the camera’s kit lens defaults to its widest angle when you power on the camera, so the need for precise framing is lessened. It’s just a quick flick of the switch, half-press autofocus, and fire. All in a couple seconds.
In other super-important photo news, I haven’t been posting to Instagram as much, but that is going to change! I’m going to try to be less particular (and more spontaneous) about the photos I post, and just have more fun. At least I think it will be more fun. I’m guessing I will lose some followers, but who cares?
I hope you had a nice day!
おやすみ
こんばんは。How’s it going?
This evening Koa performed with his middle school band in the Winter Concert. 🎶 It was pretty cool because the percussion section had an ensemble performance, and they were awesome! 🥁 I have to say that the percussion section is the most interesting of all the band sections. I guess it’s just the nature of the instruments that you can see the mallets and movement and standing percussionists, as opposed to the brass and woodwind sections which are seated and you can’t really see the finer detail of finger movements.
At any rate, the entire Honors Band sounded fantastic and it was yet another highlight of Koa’s middle school band career. 🎼
FYI, I can’t post the video of the performance until the end of the contest season since tonight’s recording will be used in the judging process… 😞
I hope you had a wonderful day!
またね～
Morning, afternoon, and sunset. 🌥️
こんばんは。How’s it going?
So I mentioned the other day that we had a nice cold-weather meal in curry 🍛, and well, tonight we had another perfect cold-weather food: Oden! 🍢
Mariko use the Instant Pot to cook the oden, and it turned out great. She really loves her Instant Pot!
I hope you had a great Sunday.
またね～
