And so once again, I've let another month slip by without posting a single photo. Shame. On. Me. It's not that I haven't had the free time, because I have. I've had it in vast abundance, and for quite some time now. All honesty, I've really just been enjoying the many simple pleasures that come with moving out of a stagnant van and into a fresh house with a view; one of which is the ability to connect my computer to an expensive surround-sound system and listen to my music as loud and as late as I want. This activity alone, takes up a good chunk of my time. According to my itunes 'top rated' playlist, I have 45 days worth of music to hear, and that's assuming I don't rip someones ipod for their tasty tunes within that time. If only I could find a way to get paid for the hours I put into good music. . .

. . . which brings me to another large consumer of my precious time; work. The job I have now, go figure, didn't turn out to be as awesome as I thought it was, which in turn, helps to support the theory that I'm going to have to create the job that best suites me, but until then, I gotta accept that work is and always will be just that. Work. Something that must be done in order to maintain a sustainable lifestyle in a dollar-driven consumers society. Work is what I do to live, not what I live to do, and that's all I have to say about that.

Good food has found it's way back into my life, but since I still can't afford to have other people make it for me, I'm stuck with mastering combinations in flavor on my own, which tends to be extremely hit or miss. Lucky for me, I've been hitting it lately, with such cuisines as dill tuna burgers with thai sweet chili sauce on baked jalapeno cheese bread, breakfast crepes with options like savory mushroom & green onion or sweet strawberry, maple and whipped cream, and butter/garlic prawn enchiladas with homemade salsa and guacamole thanks to a powder-shredding Cannuck named Chloe, who decided to grace me with her presence for 10 days, followed immediately by another visitor from Bama, Ol' Matt, who showed absolutely no objections to Chloe & I's cooking endeavors.


With a small Posse of Representatives from Alabama & British Columbia, I finally found time to explore the city and the surrounding areas, so with no further adue, I give you this past month in the greater Bay area, as seen through my view finder.

And just when I thought it couldn't get any better, Del puts on a free show in the East Bay for his hometown crowd. . .




So that's what been going on in my world for the past 30 days. In other news, my van keeps blowing fuses in the link to the starter, and the bright side to that, is I now have plenty of subjects to practice my 'poorman macro' skills on. If you're not familiar with the poorman's macro, a macro lens is made to take super close-up shots, and cost mucho dinero. Since I don't have the money for that, I simply turn my lens around, hold it against the body of the camera, reversing the focal length from far to near, then manually open the aperture ring and boom! Macro lens!







Oh, and I can't forget this one. . .


Was able to catch game # 2 between the Giants and the Braves, thanks to Chris's season tickets! It always makes for an odd situation, going to a home game in someone else's home stadium, sitting amongst the hometown crowd and cheering for my home team(ish), while they stomp their home team into the ground, 5-2! Sorry San Fran, I love ya and all, but Chop Chop!

And that completes the post of April. I am going to make an active effort to post stories as they come so I don't let another months worth of adventures go unpublished, so please, stay tuned. . .