Day 141

Try not to stare directly at it lest you be sickened.

So I finally did it. I shaved my head today. I don't have to constantly worry about how messed up my hair is when I go out in public. I have very fine hair and it's a bitch to manage. Having a shaved head frees me. This isn't exactly new territory for me as I had my head shaved briefly in 1991 (basic training) and through various periods starting in 2004.

Hair talk aside, today was an average day. I had to move everything from my walls this morning so the exterminator could do a thorough job. We don't have a bug problem. These visits are quarterly to help manage any crawling critters that manage to make it into the house. The problem was that our last visit was well before Hurricane Ike struck, which makes it early September. I know they tried to schedule an appointment in early January, but I was in Los Angeles at the time and I completely spaced about calling them back. Time goes by and here we are in May. I also got my annual termite spray done. The good news - no termite activity for hopefully the next 365 days.

I also bought a handheld light meter today. I was originally looking for something with spot-metering as my DSLR doesn't have that capability. I'm trying to move on to more compelling compositions and the ability to spot meter a scene is going to be important. The meter also does reflected and incident light readings. The incident readings will help with staged portraits. The reflected readings will come in handy for my medium format film camera with the touchy shutter release.

And today I got to see Terminator Salvation. I must say I was pretty impressed. They didn't fiddle at all with the backstory, which is very refreshing (I'm looking at you, Star Wars and Highlander franchises!). I won't give any spoilers here, but I liked the movie. The door was left open for a 5th release. It will be interesting to see how they handle the assasination of John Connor in future releases. Anyway, enough of the geek stuff.

It's rather late here and I have a lot of PT paperwork ahead of me in the morning, followed by running around in the afternoon. To all you, my faithful and not-so-faithful readers, I bid you goodnight.