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It's day nine of the RC- and those words in the beginning haunt me right now.
I've been on Hiatus from retroness due to a downstate doctor's appointment since
last Thursday night- and don't know where it belongs. Dos is more difficult to
install than I had thought [still think it's the RAM/Virtual memory/lack of RAM
issues] but more disturbingly, I'm being pulled in many different directions.
My regards to those of you with offspring, this would be nothing compared to
that, but still.
Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the challenge, the excitement, the retrocity-
but computers are not the only rapidly aging technology. I'm glad it's not all
about the winning; and I'm not leaving... other things are calling me at the
moment. So if I don't get done writing my Hannibal Lector-esque account of the
night of July 4th, that's why.
For the termanally curious:
I'm awaiting a catalog from a foremost supplier of printmaking doodads, Graphic
Chemical and Ink; when this comes I will put in a purchase order for the next
Printmaking season. This has to be balanced with my photo order, itself almost
$200 per semseter. This alone saves me over 40% from the local suppliers, and
as much of a fan of the little guy as I am, the Institution run program is not
the little guy.
On the photo front, I've long neglected my Speed Graphic. It needs new rails
and I need lensboards and focal work done. A major advantage of the Graphic
over the Crown or Kodak Easyshare is the rear curtain shutter with speeds up to
1/1000 of a second- meaning I can use any lens I want: enlarger, eyeglass,
pinhole, etc.
I want that done before August and the trip there.
The doctor's appointment was 'inconclusive' and more tests and records and talks
must be done to figure out what to do. At least I don't have that pesky
internship anymore.
And I haven't been to Fifi's since May.
I'm not abandoning the project, but I'm not obsessivly 'gung ho' about it
either. Reality schooled me, and like any good American, I'm lowering my
standards to match. But I now have all the fun DOS and early windows software
from my youth, and I want to at least give it a go. I also want to spend more
time drawing- on paper and on Wacom- and trying futilly to justify my art major
[I'm about to begin year 5 of college] and continued continuity. Lest this note
be an excuse not to finish, feel free to prod me about whenever I'm on RC Telnet
or in Luddite's Cave.
Till then,
J
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