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Freezing

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"Calming" Austin, 2016
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/3.6, 1/100 sec, ISO500
 “Calming” Austin, 2016

こんばんは！How’s it going?

Here in Austin the weather has gotten even colder! Temperatures barely made it into the 40s today, and tonight it will drop below freezing. ❄️

My oldest son likes to keep his door closed and so the heat doesn’t flow into his room. It’s like an icebox in there! So tonight we bought him a new oil heater and now his room is nice and toasty. 😄 I joked with him that I should sleep in there with him and he just rolled his eyes like teenagers do…

Speaking of temperatures, my office is always so cold and today was extra chilly. I noticed that more people were wearing jackets and scarves while working. Eventually it warmed up a bit, but for myself, it’s a constant battle. My body temperature is so low it seems.

In a bit of good news, the TV near our desks is showing a nice fireplace scene with Christmas stockings. It looks warm, but I feel like it’s mocking me! 😩

Well, I hope you had a nice day, and stay warm wherever you are!

おやすみなさい！

– B Barron Fujimoto

The Geography of Connection — Discover

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“There’s a lot happening in the world right now that would lead us to believe how disconnected we are from each other — but if this map says anything, I believe it’s that connection is real, alive, and important to us all.” Candace Rose Rardon illustrates a map of her readers’ travel stories.

via The Geography of Connection — Discover

A brief bit of sunlight

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"Morning Light" Austin, 2016
“Morning Light” Austin, 2016

こんばんは！How’s it going?

Today was another cold day, but it started out with clear skies and when I arrived at work, the sunlight was streaming in from the east side of the building. It looked so cool that I had to take a photo of it.

Lately I’ve been having a bit of wanderlust, since I enjoyed our road-trip so much and I’m looking forward to traveling more in the near future! We have a few trips planned, which reminded me of a bit of advice I heard last year… It was something like, “Always have something to look forward to.” I didn’t really know what it meant, but I think I am starting to see how it can be a nice way to keep yourself motivated.

Or maybe it’s not so much motivation, but just keeping yourself in a positive mindset. I’ve always thought that my days and years were spent trying to achieve a certain goal, and once I reached that goal, I could just coast. Kind of like I would dread doing my taxes, and I thought when I finished my taxes, then I could rest forever! But of course the next year’s taxes come again… and again.

So now as I get closer to 50 years old maybe I realize that it’s just an ongoing journey, and that it’s the journey itself that’s important, not the destination. Or maybe just shifting my thinking that the destination isn’t an endpoint, but more like a milestone and to look forward to the next milestone. And things do get easier, the more you go through.

Eh… I have no idea if that made any sense or not, but I’m pretty sure I am not articulating my thoughts well. But I’m not going to go back and edit this. You know, life’s too short to spend too much time going back to edit.

Anyways, I do think it’s good to have some things on the horizon to look forward to. Make some fun vacation plans and put them on the calendar!

I hope you had a great day!

おやすみなさい！

– B Barron Fujimoto

Tis the Season

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"Hat Shopping" Austin, 2016
“Hat Shopping” Austin, 2016

こんばんは！How’s it going? Have a good Monday?

As you can see from today’s photos, Koa and I did a bit of holiday shopping. Specifically, we went out for Christmas hats that he and his percussion-mates will wear during their holiday concert in Chicago. 🎅

It seems that each section of the band is supposed to have matching hats so I took Koa to the party supply store to pick up hats for his section. It’s interesting (to me, at least) that Koa was able to take photos of the different hat choices, then share via group chat with his section-mates, and they all decided on the antlers and Rudolf nose in a matter of minutes. Kids and their technology!

I think it looks pretty good, and the nose actually lights up too. 😜

"Rudolf" Cedar Park, 2016
“Rudolf” Cedar Park, 2016

I hope you had a great day!

おやすみなさい！

– B Barron Fujimoto

Flash Sync

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When I was growing up, my parents had one of these Kodak cameras with the flashcube. I remember being fascinated by how the cube looked when it was all spent. It had a blurry, bluish discoloration.

But my main memory regarding flash was from my 6th grade year in 1980, when I competed in a trivia quiz-show at the high school. After the competition was over, all the parents were taking photos of us kids, but my mom had run out of flashcube, so she tried to time her shot with another parent’s camera flash. I don’t know if it worked or not, but I’d have to say that the chances were pretty slim that she could nail the timing. 📸