daily slice-of-life photo blog of a Gen-X dad
Happy Chinese New Year! 🐓
As you may know, I am part Chinese and we celebrate the Lunar New Year by visiting my cousin’s in San Antonio to relax, feast on Chinese food, hand out red envelopes, and then play Mahjong.
It’s always fun to visit with extended family. 😆 So full of delicious food now!
Hoping for a prosperous new year for everyone!
おやすみなさい
– B 
こんばんは。How are you this evening?
Tonight’s photo is of my current pair of Converse. I previously posted about how I’ve had at least one pair of Chuck Taylors in my closet throughout my life, but I want to also share a silly tradition that I’ve had with my shoes for as long as I can remember.
When I get new shoes, I always re-lace one of the shoes so that they mismatch at that first pair of eyelets. Look in the photo to see what I mean. I don’t know why I started doing it that way, nor do I have a preference as to which shoe will have the front laces on the outside, but it’s something that I am compelled to do. It doesn’t make sense, and there’s no good reason I can think of why I do this. My best guess there is some personality flaw that is manifesting itself in my shoelaces. Who knows? 😜
I hope you had a nice Friday!
おやすみ
– バロン
おはよう！ It’s Friday! So here’s a cat photo. 🐱 I posted it on my Instagram a couple days ago. Please follow me there, won’t you? ☺️
こんばんは。How’s it going?
This morning I arrived at work while there was a nice sunrise happening. I wanted to see if I could get a decent photo of it so I decided to take the elevator up to the top level of the parking garage to get a better view. I think it turned out pretty good!
Honestly, there have been many days where the sunrise was really cool but I just didn’t have the motivation to put in the extra effort to find a good spot to view it from. It’s silly、 really, since the effort level is minimal – I just had to press a button to take the elevator up 4 levels, then walk 15 seconds to the edge of the garage. Just talking about it now, I feel so stupid.
In the future, I’ll try to make that extra effort. The results just might be worth it!
FYI, the photo is a panorama from two photos that I stitched using Lightroom and Photoshop. There were some telephone poles and power lines near the treeline that I removed. I usually add a little grain to my photos using Lightroom, but I forgot to do that for this one. Oh well. I still am pleased with it! 😆
I hope you had a nice day.
おやすみ
バロン
🎶 Hope you are having a wonderful evening!
