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eye dull musings eye dull musings what i see and sometimes think sunday april 17 2016 tree swallows at 7 59 pm the tree swallows have returned from their winter residence it s always enjoyable to watch these acrobats catching bugs as they fly over the fields thursday september 19 2013 digging in the dirt at 6 46 pm thump thump thump for the past week for a couple hours each night after i got home from work i would work on digging a 2 foot deep 2 foot wide 25 foot long trench in my yard initially it was grueling work but about half way through the project while swinging a pick mattock over my head and noticing i was smoothly transitioning from one overhand grip to another it dawned on me that something about what i was doing felt very familiar the overhead hand transition i was making to easily switch from chopping away at the soil on the left side of the trench vs the right side of the trench was the same type of movement i had done for years while practicing various bo kata i then also noticed that rather than just swinging with my arms and getting tired very quickly i could combine working with the weight of the pick and my own body weight to more easily chip away at the hard packed soil suddenly i was making significantly faster progress and was not getting anywhere near as tired as i had been earlier i was paying better attention when digging noticing when to give in to the resistance rather than work against it something that had been practiced quite a bit while studying udundi it all seems so obvious now i just wished i had been mindful of all of this from the start i finished the last 12 feet of the trench in about 1 3 of the time it took me to do the first half it s a good reminder of something i ve been missing from my lack of martial arts training these past couple of years thursday july 25 2013 radom eye dull photos the tree frog at 10 17 pm saw this little guy sitting on a gate in my back yard sunday december 23 2012 ch ch ch changes at 4 13 pm almost a full year has gone by with just one blog post and only 3 posts in the year before that what s going on here you ask what no one asked ok fair enough but i ll pretend someone did first and foremost i blame facebook the main purpose of this blog was a way to share my photos and thoughts with friends and family the universal access to it was somewhat of a side effect of the technology of the day i never knew which of my friends or family would be interested in this material so having a blog with global access meant anyone friends and strangers alike would have access to it if they happened to discover it i don t mind sharing somewhat personal thoughts and opinions with the world but it was never really a goal as facebook began to gain in popularity with the majority of my friends and family i found myself posting more frequently there and less frequently here however reflecting a bit on things now looking back on what i used to occasionally write about on this blog i m beginning to think i might prefer the long form thoughtful format of a blog vs the more snippety stuff i write on facebook i m not trying to say i m going to abandon facebook and return to solely writing on this blog facebook is great for keeping up with a large group of friend and family but i m thinking when time permits i am going to try to use my blog as well and so as a first attempt at getting back to this blog i offer a summary of what has happened with me these past few years in late 2009 after several years of careful scheming and manipulation i finally succeeded in convincing the woman of my dreams that it might not be a bad idea for us to date yes it really did take her several years to agree to a date we had been good friends for several years but she had always made it clear that we were only ever going to be just friends if you read some of my early blog posts from several years ago you will find there is the occasional reference to this friend about a year and half ago we bought a house in the country and at the same time i somehow convinced said woman of my dreams that it might actually be a good idea for us to get married and so this past spring we did indeed get married for a honeymoon we took a once in a life time 10 day trek to machu picchu in peru i really should post some pictures the mountains of peru are quite beautiful and now at the close of this year we are just a month away from the birth of our baby boy exciting times both past and looking ahead and as i ve already been told many times with the birth of a child life is never going to be the same for us happy holidays to family and friends both near and far wishing you all a happy 2013 monday march 12 2012 pachinko at 10 08 pm note somehow this post got lost i wrote it about a year and a half ago back in 2010 but forgot to click the publish button for my birthday this year my sister and brother in law gave me a vintage pachinko machine which they had discovered at a yard sale if you don t know what pachinko is you can read more about it on wikipedia although i ve been to japan twice and i have seen lots of pachinko parlors from the outside i had never actually ventured into one and i had never seen an actual pachinko machine until now it s a pretty interesting mechanical device it s totally gravity powered meaning it requires no batteries a series of levers ramps and pressure plates are all that control the inner workings of the machine it does have two lights that can be battery powered one for signaling the machine is out of balls and one which turns on during a payout but the lights are totally optional as far as actual gameplay the machine i have was manufactured by nishijin in tokyo japan in the early 1970s nishijin manufactured many different style machines and this one is known as a model a or recycler model it had a unique feature of recycling the losing balls into the payout pool so the machine didn t have to be refilled with balls as frequently as other models in order to give you an idea of how the machine works here a few videos of it in operation thursday august 18 2011 random eye dull photo bats at 9 34 pm the past few nights i ve seen a large number of bats flying around at dusk a friend asked me if i took any pictures of them so i figured i d give it a shot given the low lighting it proved to be a bit challenging i initially tried using autofocus but that proved impossible i then tried setting a fixed focus point and guess when the bats were in the right place this gave slightly better results but still the low light just gave a blurry result i then opted for a flash along with manually focused at a fixed point and this gave somewhat decent results they re not going to win any awards but you can at least tell they re bats sunday january 23 2011 random eye dull photo cardinals at 2 06 pm you can click on image for a larger view saturday january 22 2011 random eye dull photo golden crowned kinglet at 12 18 pm caught this little guy digging in the snow looking for seeds you can click on the image for a larger view sunday december 12 2010 random eye dull photo faucet drip at 3 48 pm it s a cold rainy day what better time to take pictures of a dripping faucet sunday december 05 2010 random eye dull photo eye closeup at 6 06 pm i bought another new used lens for my camera this time one for macro photography it s the nikon af micro nikkor 105mm 2 8 d this being late fall there s not really any flowers or insects to photograph outside so i ve been experimenting with the camera indoors again hiro was the test subject he will generally sit fairly still while i put a camera lens very close to his face took me a few tries to get his iris in focus coincidentally you can also see my other dog bodhi reflected in his pupil older posts home subscribe to posts atom about the title image rocky seashore odo coast okinawa japan 2006 brian stormont recent visitors feedjit live blog stats subscribe to this blog posts atom posts all comments atom 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