I went to work today!
Today is Tuesday 19 December 2023, and let me just say a few things from the last few days before I get to the pictures and stories from today.
Saturday, December 16th
At 06:00 on this day, I was out for a walk, the temperature was 59F, and it was beautiful.
I see the whole pattern now. I see the pattern of my life. It’s like the experience of living in society while being gay, only worse. It’s the experience of living in a society that is hostile to who you are.
I have been thinking that how increasing LGBTQ acceptance might come at the expense of autism acceptance but could also work the other way, because we should be natural allies.
Monday, December 18th
I need to quit worrying about Patty. I think that I can take a hint, but I was hoping that she understood what I was preaching. She might, if she would just hear me out, but she won’t. So.
I need to look up the cost of a used Canon 70-200mm/f4 lens. While I am at it, I need to look up the cost of a 17-40mm/f4 lens, and, eventually, I need a new camera, and make that Rebel my backup camera.
I need to add the part from the 19 December 2003 post about how you can do night social activities during the winter solstice even if you foam all day, because foaming ends early enough that you can do social activities.
Today!
So, on the way to work, I stopped at Elks and at Southpark.
LDRR 1703 and LDRR 1850 were working the spur.
There were a bunch of old KCS boxcars and a Wisconsin Central boxcar and other boxcars.
There was a cut of six cars parked just west of the Verot School Road crossing at Elks, five LPG tank cars and one flatcar with CW reporting marks loaded with plate steel. I assume that it is coming from UP, though it could, less likely, be coming from BNSF and going to Twin Brothers.
What is the deal here?
What is the reason for that “EVRAZ” logo with the bar logo on its left side?
I had a heck of a day today. I learned plenty, as expected.
That guy has a RFK Jr book in his house about Fauci, which was a big yikes but also not surprising. It makes me feel old.
We had a discussion today about that plumber not putting in a drop line because he missed it on a plan, thus costing the project plenty, and me suggesting like listing a schedule, like in a key, on the plan, and, then, the project manager relating that to one of the designers, and one replying back to ask if it was necessary and saying that this has been discussed before, but someone else, or maybe the same person, said that it’s a good idea.
My thing is that it’s the easiest for him to do, of all people; not only that, if he doesn’t do it, several other people have to do it individually, whereas if he and only he does it, then that’s just one person that has to do it.
All of this reminds me of the frustration that I have about people sharing screenshots of tweets on Facebook without including the link to the tweet. When I complain about that, people are like “well, you could just look up the tweet.” Yeah, I could, but so, too, could everyone else who wants to find the tweet, whereas just one person, the person who posted it, could have included the link. One person – the poster – could do it, saving countless other people the trouble of having to do it.
However, I feel like I can’t use that example with these people, because I fear that saying that might make them want to seek me out on social media.
Twenty years ago today, I photographed a Southern Pacific railroad locomotive leading Union Pacific Railroad train LLS51 at Kraemer Road east of Raceland, and, as I wrote in the blog article published today, that outing kicks off the Christmas-New-Year’s-Day marathon, and please note the part how train-hunting this time of year also leaves time for social activities in ways that train-hunting in other parts of the year don’t.
That’s all for today. I plan to go Lake Charles tomorrow and shoot the Port Rail train and do other things.
Stay tuned!
Jim
