Red Ring Tupperware Party, Autumnal Equinoctal Edition (24)

wu_wei0 wrote in post #17390018
Hey Theague! 5 months this time. 3 years before that. Not shooting much anymore- a few concerts here and there- so sold all my gear. Just got new stuff for Christmas and I'm already having to get rid of the 70-200 f2.8. Kid needs his engine rebuilt. Was really looking forward to the Styx concert in a couple months.

Happy to see you are still Mister Monkey Pants!

I got rid of all my gear a little over a year ago. Now I'm regretting it and buying up gear again. lol

what a nice Mom you are

I am retired. I'm a volunteer here and we had some urgent track work that needed to be done.

Well that's cool.


Speaking of retiring and getting old and stuff: I just figured out today, that when I was 24 and my Dad was 48 I was 1/2 his age; when he was 72 and I was 48, I was 2/3's his age; If he lives to be 96, I'll be 72, which is 3/4's his age. I think this sucks. Seems like I'm catching up to him

JWright wrote in post #17390252
I am retired. I'm a volunteer here and we had some urgent track work that needed to be done.

Retired = Work really hard for no pay.. Got ya!!

The wee one showed up today.

Chet wrote in post #17390440
The wee one showed up today.

Yes? Any details? Congratulations, of course!

gjl711 wrote in post #17390426
Retired = Work really hard for no pay.. Got ya!!

"Retired" means you can do what you really want to do, not what brings in a basic paycheck. I put in about a 40 hr. week this week in my volunteer job. But, I got to be there when they lowered the Spirit of St. Louis to the floor of the National Air & Space Museum, to ride along in Big Blue while they transported the Horten V3 from Silver Hill to Udvar-Hazy, and just finished doing the time-lapse videos of both operations. Drives my wife crazy that I don't want to take time off (aside from 3 mo. in the summer to beat the triple digit humidity and temperature) from it and go traveling. But then, she wants to travel in the winter, when 1) it's liveable here and 2) I'm usually in the middle of sometning interesting (see above).

Photos I take for the Smithsonian are the Smithsonian's. Don't ask me to post them here unless they've made them publicly available. At least one's been published, but it's too big (gigapixels) to post here. "One Last Look" in the August 2014 issue of Smithsonian Air & Space - Jimmy Doolittle's tablecloth, which has virtually a "Who's Who" from 1929 through the 1950's. Anyone who dined with them signed it; Joe Doolittle (his wife; long story) then embroidered the names. I photographed the whole thing scaled to a 1:1 at 300 dpi; worked out to 96 photos, then made a panorama of it. You can see the threads.

Chet wrote in post #17390440
The wee one showed up today.

Congratulations!

Chet wrote in post #17390440
The wee one showed up today.

Pics or it didn't happen!

Congrats on the arrival.

Hmmm. Looks like you got a new moniker, Chet. When did that happen?

WHO LIKES ICE CREAM?????

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Chet wrote in post #17390440
The wee one showed up today.

Wait. What?

LV Moose wrote in post #17390640
Wait. What?

Mini Chet.

Wow. That's awesome. Congrats, bro. Hopefully he/she looks like the mother.

He is a mini-Chet!