I want you to know how much I suffer for you. It’s important that you know. You being, of course, anonymous person I don’t know. In the past two weeks, I’ve laid my wintery butt on the beach three, four, maybe five times. Each time I’ve laid out, I’ve gotten burned. Burned like a frickin’ tourist. Today was the worst of it. I think today, I got the worst sunburn of my life. I wish I could say that was me being overly dramatic, however, it’s not.

I learned something today, though. There’s a maximum redness level to my nose. Whenever I get sunburned, my nose is the first thing to turn red. Deep unbearably embarrassing red. I always assumed it could go deeper in shades. Not so. The rest of my face got that deep level of red today. It’s actually painful enough that I found myself humming that “Solarcaine stops sunburn pain when someone you love is hurting” jingle from back in the day. Mmmmm. Solarcaine. God, I wish I had some of that right now. I’m kind of avoiding going to sleep because I know it’s going to be a miserable sleep, although, I’m extra tired, so with any luck, I’ll just pass out.

Oh. Suffering. And how I do it for you. After laying out today under blue skies in the sexy part of South Beach (because yeah, I fit in there), I went out on the street to where a lot of the WMC traffic was and took some photos, knowing I was already sunburned. I could feel my skin burning as I kneeled at the corner, leaned against light poles, and sat on the hot leather seat of my scooter. Yet, there I was taking more photos. See that? Suffering for my art. Suffering so that I can deliver everyday photos of everyday things. I’ve actually already gone through them and will try to get them up tomorrow. I’m just working on doing some other things first.

Oh. By the way… Since I’m bringing text back to the site, I’m trying to figure out how to work this site so that it makes sense. The text obviously needs to be here. For my sake, not yours. But the photographs are what people come to see; the stats were overwhelming before as to what areas of the site were of more interest to visitors. So the site might be magoo-ish for a while. Not sure. But everything’s here, at least. I just need to tidy up.