Bessemer City, North Carolina
Sunday, January 06, 2013
Saturday, January 05, 2013
Dead On
Albemarle, North Carolina
I did a bit of a double take wandering around photographically target-rich Albemarle to see the feed sacks in front of a gun shop in an old factory building. In an urban setting, sacks like this make me think of people with a dozen bird feeders in their back yard. But this isn't bird seed, it's wildlife feed. Translation: bait.
Reading the Paper, plus Blog Notes
Newberry, South Carolina
Thursday I'd been printing up a storm and Tina and I had tracked & packed a lot of the mid-level Reward packages, prints and calendars, for the Drive-in Theater Kickstarter project. I was making my final decisions on exactly how I wanted to print the 11x14 portfolios when the Z3200 suddenly stopped at the beginning of a print, spit out the strip of paper, and announced for the first time in the nearly three years I've had it that one of the six double-ink printheads has to be replaced. This isn't a catastrophe—HP designs the printheads to be a relatively inexpensive user-replaceable consumable. The operation isn't much more complicated than replacing an ink cartridge. But, unlike ink carts, I don't have a set of replacement printheads sitting in the file cabinet. You also don't get Z3200 consumables in rural Connecticut. So web order to B&H, but it won't arrive until Monday afternoon so all operations have ground to a halt and I have an unwanted weekend off from the job of finishing Rewards fulfillment.
One thing I'll do is finish my "for the blog" edit of the "off topic" pictures from October's Southern Loop of the DI theater project. Still have quite a bit of promising material from North and South Carolina.
Friday, January 04, 2013
Thursday, January 03, 2013
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
NO ETHANOL
Newberry, South Carolina
I saw these "no ethanol" signs on my western trip early this summer, in oil producing states like Oklahoma and Texas, but was surprised to see one in South Carolina a couple months ago. I didn't notice any pro-ethanol signs in Nebraska or Iowa, though I did see that I could buy 85% ethanol fuel there. It was significantly cheaper than gas, but since I understand you get significantly fewer miles per gallon I didn't experiment with it, even though my 2011 car is flex-fuel. The combination of signs here is troubling. This isn't about fostering a local product, but would seem to seek divine intervention on behalf of the troops protecting "our" middle eastern oil. Pretty creepy. The spelling is a gift.
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
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