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Happy Veteran’s Day and all that jazz. I’m tired. I was fairly busy with work over this last week, but my time outside of work also hasn’t left much room for quality sleep either. It doesn’t help that my back and neck are all jacked up and nothing seems to help. Thursday evening Beth drove in to Houston for a Friday morning interview. She ended up staying until Saturday morning so she could shop a few old favorites while here. It was nice to catch up and see her again. I missed seeing Rob and Tammy last weekend when they were up, so I sent the doggy pack home with Beth that I’d planned on giving Rob before. By Friday night, I already was feeling worn out from going all the time. I had dinner with Beth and Georgia at the Irish pub on the Waterway in The Woodlands… The Goose’s Acre I think it was called. Mmmmmmmn… Guinness on tap. We went to Chi afterwards for cocktails where Barrett and Andy met up with us. Barrett hadn’t stopped drinking since we had a couple Crazy Mexican’s at Cyclone Anaya’s earlier and I was so tired I couldn’t fit the strength to be witty. Saturday morning started with a nice walk at Mercer Arboretum. I drove out to Mancuso to pick up Georgia’s helmet for the safety class next week and then went for an hour deep tissue full body massage, spa pedicure and manicure, eyebrow waxing, and haircut. I ended up skipping the haircut (which I badly need) because the wait was over an hour and I needed to triple-ess before heading out for the evening events. Georgia and I went to Melanie’s house for a quick appearance at her son’s going away shindig (he leaves for Iraq in the Army in 15 days) before the evening’s destination… Mike and Sabrina’s “house warming” party. Before I realized it, it was three aye emm and we were all tipsy and shared sides hurting from laughter. Mike had a Jenga game that had been modified such that every tile had a drinking game item on it… you pull a tile and everyone does what it says. Very, very fun. I didn’t get home until 4:20 aye emm. Today was pretty lazy. I had lunch at Georgia’s parent’s house and Henry played with Tucker (her Boston). I’ve been kicking around some new macro ideas for pano-macro and DoF extension through stacking, so I asked Bob to bring down some specimens to shoot. This shot (above) is 5 separate images stacked to stretch the depth of field. The alignment sucks as does my technique, but it isn’t completely crap for a first attempt. I learned from it and I’ll have to refine my process. The focal plane shift is fractions of a millimeter from shot to shot as the DoF is literally paper thin at this extreme magnification. Who woulda thunk a cute little moth could star in a horror film. I’m tired and eating cheese and beer for dinner. Bedtime is coming real soon and I can’t wait to feel refreshed because this arse is draggin’. Georgia and her mom were the only two people that wished me well on Veteran’s Day… not that I expect it. I understand what service men and women go through and want to send kudos and thanks to all y’all… you know who you are. God bless.

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