The Silent Table & Best Dorm Photo

Daya was in the 9/11 memorial performance this morning at Lincoln Center.
I took the day off work to go see her.

I went for a nice walk in Central Park on the way over.

Balto said good morning.

Later in the day, Daya texted me this awesome dorm picture:

Rebel & Rat Academy

I have an Oct 1st goal to get prints launched, and this means an absolute mountain of work.

I'm photographing a bunch of paintings today..... took out my old Canon Rebel...

The batteries are a bit swollen... Rebel might need to retire.  They don't even make the batteries anymore... so she's living on borrowed time.

It might be time to upgrade to a mirrorless camera..... but I'll think about that later.

So I'm photographing paintings.

Which means selecting paintings, taking them off the walls, un-framing them.... and then I'll have to re-frame them and put them all back up.

And I have to do all the image processing.

This is a stupid amount of work....

In opther news, I am joining the NYC Rat Pack, because I desperately need the t-shirt.

I went to Rat Academy tonight, and actually it was really, really good.

Even though I already know a lot about rats, I learned a lot!

I'm going on a Rat Walk on Oct 22.

Stitches

Daya cut her finger at work yesterday and I told her to go to urgent care because she might need stitches.

She did not go.

This morning she went to the dr at Juilliard and they told her to go to urgent care.

Yes she needed stitches.

She's ok.

Now that she has been repaired, she says she feels so much better.

AND she didn't have to pay for any of it because it fell under worker's comp!

That Sucks!

I was at the boathouse this afternoon when Daya texted me.

We had some great clouds today.

Trespasser Interrupts Friday Nite Sunset Paddle!

On Friday evenings volunteers have dedicated time to go on the water.

But I can bring guests, and Janae joined.

I was not keyholder on duty, and I arrived after everyone else was already on the water.

(It's really nice having a key to the boathouse!)

While I was waiting for Janae and getting ready to go on the water, there was a trespasser on the dock.

Since I was taking a non-public boat out, I had opened the main boathouse door.

And I saw a strange man on the dock WITHOUT A PFD!  You cannot go on the dock without a PFD!
There's a huge sign that says it and also authorized people only.

The gate was properly secured and he jumped it.

The people on the water saw him but were too far away to do anything in time.  He was on the dock messing around with the boat keys, then he wandered back up. I very strongly told him to GET OFF THE DOCK. And he wouldn't. His response waas to tell me to calm down.  i asked who he was, what he was doing and told him again he was trespassing and get off the dock!

And that asshole said "I can't the gate is closed."

To which I said "That didn't stop you from jumping over it!"

He replied "Calm down!"

I opened the gate and told him to leave.... AND HE WALKED RIGHT INTO THE BOATHOUSE!

Then I got REALLY mad and yelled at him again to leave, and told him again he was trespassing.

He said... "Calm down!"  

OMFG.

By that time 2 other volunteers had come off the water and between the three of us, he finally left but it took some doing.

I reported it to Boathouse leadership and they told me to call it into the park police, which I did.

They came over and actually knew who I was talking about.

So I hope he doesn't come back.

I felt really bad because Janae had arrived and we were on the water and I had to keep leaving and coming back to deal with this.

But otherwise we had a nice paddle, and we had dinner on the water.

Someone left their invisalign on the dock.

9/11 lights

This might be the last time

It was hard to leave the beach tonight.

Tonight might be the last time I can do this until next year.

Ther cats miss Daya and sleep on her bed a lot.

I am addicted

Going to the beach after work with a nice audiobook is addicting.

It's a good way to get out after working from home.

I'd like to do some studio water paintings.... and I won't be able to do these beach walks for much longer.  It won't be long until the sun sets too early and it's too cold.

It's kind of cold now actually, I need long sleeves and a warm hoodie.

The water is still very warm though, much warmer than the air.

I now have a Rockaway routine, it's a good walk, very cleansing and peaceful.

And I take too many pictures.

But it's so pretty I can't help it!

IT'S SEPTEMBER & Convocation performance

Oh I thought August would never end.

Carey was really worried about it too.

It was extra-long this year, very concerning.

Also I forgot to post about Daya's convocation performance.

I went in person.

Daya moved in to the dorm Sunday Aug 25th and had a performance (and a solo!) on Weds Aug 28th.

I told her not to bring too much stuff since we live here, and if she doesn't have time I'm glad to help out and bring stuff back and forth. (like the 10 lbs of protein powder she left at home...)

She said, very respectfully, that she wants to treat this like she's not so close to home.

I said ok that's cool.

And it is.

Guess how long that lasted?

TWO DAYS.

Tues-Weds, literally right up until I left for convocation, she asked me to bring stuff to her.

And she came home yesterday.

And she's stopping by again today.

Daya is the one standing how no one should be able to stand.

OMG I am so proud of her!!!!!