I took my camera to COSine, the science fiction convention the last weekend in February, even though I didn’t expect to use it since I knew I was going to be busy to use it. As I predicted, the camera spent most of the con in the hotel room. I did take photos of this painted elk on the last day outside the lobby of the Crown Plaza. The painting on the side is one of the more famous views of Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak as seen from the east.
I think we received around nine inches overall, but it is hard to tell with the drifting. Since we usually get hammered when there is a big storm in this region, it was nice to be spared for a change.
As Tim Bray says:
And anyone who claims that unauthorized transmission of bits is analogous to piracy is at least a liar and is deeply disrespectful of the people who are suffering the effects of theft, kidnapping, and murder right now today in the Indian Ocean. They deserve your contempt, and they have mine.
Fortunately, the place I get Rion groomed allows me to drop him off at 7:30 am and pick him up at 9:00 am if I let them know when I make the appointment. This beats leaving him at the Bad Place for the entire morning. It’s nice to be able to see his eyes again.
…who needs to go to the Bad Place (aka the groomer’s.)
Magic the mare is really starting to show her age (around 30) but is still fairly lively. She can’t eat much hay anymore so she takes it out of the tire feeder and dumps it on the ground. This is rather annoying given what we are paying for hay these days. Her other hobby is chasing my chestnut mare Lily. Lily is half Magic’s age, and probably weighs 400 pounds more than Magic, but that doesn’t seem to matter.
My friend’s cat Clown is one of the handsomest cats I know. I took a baby picture of him when he was much younger.