reached the halfway point (or thereabouts) yesterday. the job seems a bunch less daunting now that i have a nice binder full of drawings and little index tabs and the like. now I can focus on the nitty gritty of redrawing all the ones that we don't have. which quite honestly will go fairly quickly compared to looking for them. (or at least feel like it)

all the molds have been traced and photographed, so there wont be any surprises later when I'm feeling almost done and somebody walks...

my new project is gonna be long and hard.

at our shop we use molds to form our concrete shapes. many of the molds have a corresponding drawing (blueprint) in the computer.
sometimes a mold is made without the need for a drawing such as when we make a mold from a part that a client brings in (corbels are a good example)
sometimes molds get thrown away. (in the past 3 years we have probably disposed of 60% of our molds that just werent needed)
sometimes blueprints...

went out today to wallymart and bought the coolest thing! its a popup visor for the screen on my camera. the visor piece sticks on via peel adhesive and then can be detached from the frame it not needed.
the nice thing is that it serves as a lcd protecter, and a sun visor.
check it out at Digital camera accessories and OEM flash manufacturer - Delkin Devices
only 10 bucks, and im already in love with it.
now I can shoot outside and not have to misery with the sun creating...

Woke up Sunday to ants cruising around on my computer desk. just a few scouts here and there. smooshed them and put out some ant killer spray and grants stakes outside. that seemed to stop them until today.
this morning they had made their way to the other end of the house and were letting themselves in thru the back door. so I POURED out the rest of the jug all around the back side of the house perimeter. It usually happens during the summer monsoon season. every storm brings refugees into...

so last night after returning from a fast food run,another dove was in the house (see: birds birds birds.)
as i walked in i spooked it and it flew away from the door and deeper into the house. I took a pic with my phone and then he flew behind the entertainment center.
haven't seen him since.
he wont come out, and im not wanting to move the wall unit unless i have to. I guess tonight i will have to.

STUPID BIRD!