So I went to the Target with Jen to look for assorted stuff a few weeks ago, and we found ourselves in the sock-and-underwear section, which is also conspicuously near the hat-and-glove section. I looked through the hats they had there and found a tuque in a lovely green color, and wound up buying it because it’s warm and light and fits my big fat cranium pretty well. To my dismay, Jen has taken to calling me Eminem when I wear it, although I leave the hoodie at home. Today I have it on because it’s 20 freakin’ degrees outside and my office thermostat is set on ‘meat locker’. They are calling for snow tomorrow night, which means the fair city of Baltimore will go mental and buy up all the toilet paper, milk and bread visible. Then they will leave their houses and drive extra-fast to go someplace and crash their cars into each other because the idea of the all-season tire is a foreign concept (and you can’t fit an all-season tire on your super-low-profile racing mags now, can you?)

I began sketching out ideas and a rough storyboard for a narrative I’ve been thinking about last night. I have a basic storyline together and a visual idea for how I’d like the first pages to look, and I’m still working on how to present them in an online format. One of the other problems I’m seeing is how to take pictures of the reference points I’d like; my camera doesn’t have any setting for manual exposure or lighting conditions besides ‘dark’, ‘normal’ and ‘light’. Most of the beginning of the story is set at 3:30am, so it’ll be difficult to get what I need.

Postscript: I read the manual and found a ton of features that I had overlooked before, including the ISO settings, the infinity focus setting, and the digital zoom feature (duh!) I also found the timer function. So I’ll freeze tonight and take a few pictures and see what I get- All may not be lost!