Day 230

Hey, 230! As I've said before, reaching increments of 10 makes me happy.

Day off today, and I'm in a coffee shop. Ha ha...I'm checking out a place called Collective Coffee, on 20th street in Saskatoon. It has one of those mini garage door style doors (which I love), opening it up to the air. They also have a regular door to the side, for when the winter hits. The decor is really nice as well. Their espresso and coffee beans are supplied by Intelligensia out of Chicago. Pretty tasty stuff, if you ask me. Anyway, I'm still partial to Museo...but maybe I'm biased. Both places putting out good product, and I always support small local businesses, even if they are competing. There is definitely a lot more room still for quality coffee bars in Saskatoon....like, for quite a few more, if you ask me. Also, there needs to be a guy/girl to go around teaching other coffee shops some skills and tips, etc to improve their stuff.

Anyway, not sure what else to write about at the moment. Life seems like it's going pretty good these days. At least, my definition of pretty good. Actually I would say it's going really well. I'm looking forward to starting a regular class schedule, and working around it, and continuing honing my skill behind a camera. I mentioned previously, I think, that I purchased a flash. I'm looking forward to using that more, especially off camera. My in-law's have a nikon flash as well, so I'll be able to use my camera to control those and do some different lighting stuff. I don't really know the first thing about flash/strobe photography, so I'm basically a blank slate. Well, I shouldn't say blank...my friend Jason Finkbeiner of Jay Scott Photography has been slowly teaching me about lighting and using flashes off camera. I say slow because I'm a bit of a slow learner at times...especially with stuff that's so technical. The artistic side might be a bit easier for me to learn...but the technical stuff is a bit of a challenge. Anyway, please stop by Jay's site, and if you're so inclined, comment and like his stuff.

I also want state that when I say that my life is going well these days, I don't really mean that my life was terrible previous to now. I didn't feel good, and there were a few things that could have been going better...but I always knew that my life itself was nothing to complain about, because I had breath, and had a wife who loved me, and friends and family who did as well. Anyway, hope that makes sense. Maybe it's just a bit easier now, because certain things have improved. I think I'm just thinking in type. Something to think about, anyway.

Thanks for stopping by again. Love you all. Take care.