An article came out this morning in Metromix South Florida, asking local South Florida artists how they’re getting by in the economy. I contribute my two cents and allude to my planned trip across country which is now a known thing.
I’ve decided that I’m going to try and leave no later than next Friday. I probably should’ve saved that two cents.
Somehow I missed uploading a few photos the other day. I was working on all the photos that I took on the 26th of March and forgot to upload eighteen. Anyway, they’re up now in the Street +/ Life gallery. Photos of people being people on Ocean Drive. And some wheels.
Dropped off my scooter today at the place where I bought it to get 1) the speed limit restriction removed and 2) to get a tune-up.
My scooter now goes… well, I don’t even know how fast it goes because there are too many stop lights in South Beach for me to find out. But I did manage to break the sound barrier between 11th and 13th on Washington Ave. It was complete awesomeness!!!! Actually, I only got it to 45mph, which made it feel like I was going ridiculously fast since I’ve been hitting a max speed of 35mph for months on that scooter unless I was going downhill. Even then, I never saw 45. 45 was a dream.
And now my dreams become reality. Except… once I weigh my scooter down with everything packed for the trip, I’ll probably be back down to maxing out at 35mph. But that’s okay. It all balances out. Maybe I should lose weight before I go. That might help.
I’ve updated the Street +/ Life gallery significantly today, adding well over a hundred photos. Similar to the 60 photos, 60 minutes set from before, too, created a set on Flickr titled 55 in 51; a collection of 55 photos taken in 51 minutes while sitting at the park on Lincoln. The slideshow on Flickr can be viewed here.
Other photos added include a couple of exotics, beach photos, as well as photos of some of the WMC crowd last week.
I’m leaving South Florida for a while. I’m taking a trip across the country. On my scooter. Since my scooter maxes out at 35mph (unless I’m going downhill), I can’t take the interstate, obviously. And so I will be taking the long way; the shorter back roads, the long empty stretches of highway, through the cities, through the towns, through the hamlets, and through the desert.
I’m planning to leave on some date between the 15th and 22nd of this month to arrive in LA on the 22nd of May. On that day, May 22nd, a four-day reunion begins in LA for kids that grew up in Saudi Arabia; kids known as Aramco Brats, children whose parents worked for the oil company.
My plan is to come back to South Beach, afterward, but I don’t know exactly where I’ll end up. All I know right now is that in under three weeks, I’m going nomadic.
(Also, there are photos up in Street +/ Life, photos that were supposed to be of a neatly stacked pile of red bricks. I didn’t find red bricks but I found an automotive repair shop that was closed for the day.)
Flickr made a change today to contact notifications and I’m extremely, extremely happy. They’ve separated out their automatic contact notification emails to their own tab. So now, when I look at my email, rather than seeing a ton of queued messages, I have two tons of queued messages. Well, not really. I have a ton of contact notifications neatly hidden on one tab and then a few handfuls of “real” messages (of sorts) on a normal inbox tab. I can’t begin to tell you the guilt and anxiety this relieves. Especially once I simply delete every message in the contact notification tab, knowing that I’m not accidentally deleting real messages that might otherwise get lost in the shuffle!! And I can safely do this and add reciprocate contact adds since their contact management tool allows me to see who’s added me, how many photos they have in their stream, if they use their real name, etc without wasting time clicking every single contact.
Yay, flickr!
