Abbie's Real Life Blog

I’m still kind of testing the waters with regard to all of the posts that are now appearing here automatically from Twitter and Facebook and Flickr.  They rely on plugins, not all of which work very well.  I am not the greatest of hackers, so it takes me time to figure out why things aren’t working, and try to either fix it or find another plugin that will work better.  But I think I like using this blog as a bit of a web clearinghouse of Me.

Currently, I be watching Everest: Beyond the Limit season 2 on Netflix, and eating vegetarian chili.  I like this show.  I’ve read a lot of mountaineering stories over the past couple of years.  It was mostly well-written, so it was easy to imagine, but it’s also cool to see it on screen.  A couple of weeks ago, I saw North Face at Ragtag, and that was very similar.  I’d read something about the Eiger North Face, so it was cool to have some background knowledge and put a real picture with the features I’d already heard about.

Things are going well.  Despite seemingly insurmountable odds, I have managed to make it to the gym every day since I wrote the post about wanting to go to the gym every day.  Magically, it is somehow working for me.  I am very proud of myself for sticking it out for six whole days.  I have eleven more days until I leave for the trip, and I hope to go every single one of those.

Tonight is photo club.  The contest theme is ‘antique furniture’.  I am submitting some photos of my own furniture that I took a few months ago, in lieu of new photos taken for the contest.  The furniture is fifty years old and modern in style.  The question is whether people who are older than fifty will consider it antique.  I am guessing not, but they did not put an age or other qualifier on it, and ‘antique’ is subject to interpretation, so I am submitting my images.