Picture of the Day–FAIL!

 

If you haven’t noticed, there hasn’t been a picture of the day since March 20th.

So here come the excuses. 

I knew this would be tough for me since my life consists of the following routine nearly everyday:

Wake up, go to work, go home, eat, sleep, repeat.

Nothing changes, same route, same day, over and over.

Then my laptop died (see last photo) and the routine became:

Wake up, go to work, go home, eat, cuss laptop, replace hard drive, cuss laptop, reformat hard drive, cuss laptop because Windows is corrupt, reinstall Windows Vista, cuss laptop because drivers won’t load, copy cloned image to hard drive, cuss laptop because cloned image is corrupt, purchase and install Windows 7, sleep.

This went on over the course of 6 days.

So now that this ordeal has been resolved I should be able to get back to my photo challenge, right?

Probably not.

I start school on Monday and my routine will be:

Wake up, go to work, go to school, maybe eat, maybe sleep, repeat.

So here’s my lame solution. The challenge was supposed to be take a picture a day and post it. Instead I will be posting pictures from my archives. I can still say I took them and there are some really great shots, they just won’t be new.

So here’s one for today. I hope you like it.

It’s almost a self portrait.

 

 

While writing this I was listening to " Deep in the Heart [*]" from "The Joshua Tree [20th Anniversary 2-CD] Disc 2" by "U2"

Picture of the Day - March 20, 2012

This can't be good.

Picture of the Day–March 19, 2012

 

Ok, so they aren’t photos and I didn’t take them, I scanned them.

I was a little lazy today.

These are the birthday cards I received this year.

The Age of Miracles: A Novel by Karen Thompson Walker

A LibraryThing Review

 

The Earth’s rotation has rapidly slowed and the days are getting longer, much longer but 12 year old Julia’s life is still going at full speed.

In spite of the tragedies going on around her she still hangs onto the hope that she will be accepted at school by the other kids and that someday Seth Moreno will notice her. She worries about her parent’s health and their relationship. She also dreams of growing up to live a long life.

This is a well written coming of age story set against a backdrop of world apocalypse.

But don’t expect the usual zombies and such. This is a well researched and scientifically sound end of the world scenario. The “slowing” has affected everything from the tides and weather patterns to the food supplies to human emotions. The story also delves into human psychology and the fight for survival instinct by exploring the clash between “real-timers” and “clock-timers”.

The quick switches in the story from calm to panic, from good times to tragedy, and then back again kept me glued to the pages waiting to see what would happen next.

I was lucky enough to receive an advanced reader’s copy of this book so I didn’t have to wait until its release in June of 2012. I highly recommend you order a copy for yourself today.