Monday: concrete!
May. 13th, 2024 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutA. went to school.
I walked with M.
I did 2 one mile loops by myself while talking with S., after picking up A. after school.
R. drove out to the site for the combined OAC/MEPFP meetings. I listened in on the MEPFP meeting while driving home.
He got to watch and take pictures of concrete! So much fun!!! It’s not just pictures on paper any more. It’s not just a gigantic hole in the ground any more. It’s not just meetings in town in which people rail against our life choices any more. It’s not just arguing with utility companies and cutting down trees any more. It’s not just paying the (delightful) lawyer to dig around in relevant law and the deed book to argue with the utility anymore. It’s not just managing complicated working relationships and passive aggressive hostility between design professionals. It’s concrete!
Here’s hoping all the rest of it ensures that the choices now embedded in concrete were all what we hope them to be!
Also, I read some old Slate piece about how long it takes to caramelize onions and I got frosty about it. I went looking for a tripod, because I was going to make turnip hash browns for lunch anyway, and I figured I could caramelize an onion and video the whole thing and teach myself some extremely rudimentary short form video production techniques while I was at it. I couldn’t find any of the tripods, but I did find the camstand from a genealogical scanning project I was engaged in a long time ago. And it turns out a camstand is fucking _perfect_ for pointing a camera down into a pan for fifteen minutes. It doesn’t get in the way at all, and the device is made with some plumbing parts and a cutting board, so you could actually use it as a cutting board as well. It’s sorta perfect for a cooking short form video tool.
I’m currently hung up on trying to get a timer / clock / stopwatch running on the video since I didn’t have the present of mind to include a clock in view of the project. I figured out how to do a picture in picture, but I’m having trouble getting what I did small enough to fit in a corner of the screen appropriately. I’m sure I’m just being an idiot, and I have learned the basics of iMovie along the way, so there’s that (I had used it previously maybe 3 years ago?).
I walked with M.
I did 2 one mile loops by myself while talking with S., after picking up A. after school.
R. drove out to the site for the combined OAC/MEPFP meetings. I listened in on the MEPFP meeting while driving home.
He got to watch and take pictures of concrete! So much fun!!! It’s not just pictures on paper any more. It’s not just a gigantic hole in the ground any more. It’s not just meetings in town in which people rail against our life choices any more. It’s not just arguing with utility companies and cutting down trees any more. It’s not just paying the (delightful) lawyer to dig around in relevant law and the deed book to argue with the utility anymore. It’s not just managing complicated working relationships and passive aggressive hostility between design professionals. It’s concrete!
Here’s hoping all the rest of it ensures that the choices now embedded in concrete were all what we hope them to be!
Also, I read some old Slate piece about how long it takes to caramelize onions and I got frosty about it. I went looking for a tripod, because I was going to make turnip hash browns for lunch anyway, and I figured I could caramelize an onion and video the whole thing and teach myself some extremely rudimentary short form video production techniques while I was at it. I couldn’t find any of the tripods, but I did find the camstand from a genealogical scanning project I was engaged in a long time ago. And it turns out a camstand is fucking _perfect_ for pointing a camera down into a pan for fifteen minutes. It doesn’t get in the way at all, and the device is made with some plumbing parts and a cutting board, so you could actually use it as a cutting board as well. It’s sorta perfect for a cooking short form video tool.
I’m currently hung up on trying to get a timer / clock / stopwatch running on the video since I didn’t have the present of mind to include a clock in view of the project. I figured out how to do a picture in picture, but I’m having trouble getting what I did small enough to fit in a corner of the screen appropriately. I’m sure I’m just being an idiot, and I have learned the basics of iMovie along the way, so there’s that (I had used it previously maybe 3 years ago?).