Strange weather

Bright Morning
Originally uploaded by jbrau13.

This picture of a Bright Morning was made 4 days after the Picture of the man taking Picture of Snow.

4 days later and 5 miles away there are a lot more degrees and a whole lot less snow.

Picture of man taking Picture of Snow

Picture of man taking Picture of Snow
Originally uploaded by jbrau13.

I haven't posted in a while. No reason really, just haven't. I'd like to say I've been all busy with work, life, etc...but I've just been sort of lazy...no lazy isn't right more like uninspired.

Anyway this whole blizzard thing that just blew thru here sort of helped get the juices flowing.
Recently I've been attracted to pictures of people taking pictures.
I call this one - Picture of man taking Picture of Snow

The first picture I made of someone else making a picture coincided with the first time I saw a camel walking down the street in Brooklyn.

Those interested in such things may find them here -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessekasendorf/86581752/

NYC Marathon

Storm Trooper
Originally uploaded by jbrau13.

About 37,000 ran in it and it felt like there were almost as many people watching. One guy had a big blue afro, and others had tape on their nipples. People had water bottles attached to funny places. A few were wearing backpacks that held water and had a little tube to drink from. Some people watching were handing out bananas to the runners. One guy was offering them donuts, but I didn't see anyone take one. I didn't see anyone give any runner any paper towel, but they all seemed to have them. They would wipe their sweaty faces with them and

throw them on the street

. This guy was in a Storm Trooper costume.

Twin Lobsters, merlot

Twin Lobsters, merlot
Originally uploaded by jbrau13.

These were really good.
Lobster always tastes good, but its annoying to eat - having to get the meat out of the shell and all - I just never really thought it was worth the effort. In all fairness, I am kind of lazy. Anyway at this place I ate at last week for my dad's 55th bday, they have the brilliant idea of serving the lobster out of the shell. Brilliant indeed.

My 2nd Favorite Beverage

Beer
Originally uploaded by jbrau13.

After black coffee, my 2nd favorite beverage is beer.

Sometimes I make beer at home.
It's a long complicated process I don't really feel like getting into - but here is a neat picture.
It's neato that this bubbling cauldron or god knows what will one day become beer.

Making beer is fun. Friends come over - one of my friends is my brewing partner - it's a lot of work, so its good to have a partner.
Sometimes other people come over too. Whenever you tell someone you make beer at home, they're always like 'Really, how does that work?'
They ask all these questions, which is cool, cause I don't mind talking about it, but it can be tricky to explain so sometimes its just simpler if they come over and watch.
So there's that aspect.
And also, its like a rule that when you make beer, you have to be drinking beer, and since it is my 2nd favorite beverage, that makes it fun too.

Sadly, sometimes it can be more fun to make the beer than to drink it. Truth be told, its not always really that good.

It's Halloween

So today is Halloween. I don't really get too excited about Halloween. This year it happens to be on a Monday. I'm always a bit groggy on Monday mornings, especially before I have my black coffee.

This morning was pretty typical. I'm on the train. White Stripes playing in my ears. NYTimes in my hand. I'm reading about Tim Russert, Lewis Libby, and Val Plame. I'm also reading about Sean McManus taking over CBS News, Freddy Ferrer complains about Bloomberg, the Giants winning for their dead owner, and all sorts of other stuff. Every now and again I look up from the paper. I keep noticing all these people that are dressed kind of funny. One woman has all this makeup on. Another has these decorative beads pasted to her head. I'm thinking that New York is really kind of a freaky place. I get out of the train and notice a person w. a black witch hat on and it's only then I remember that today is Halloween. All the others I saw on the train were presumably in costume as well.

This still may be a freaky place, but not for the reasons first suspected.

I had all these ideas...

So yesterday I posted on here. I wrote about how baseball was over, it wasn't the most compelling bit of prose, but it was timely and on my mind.
I had a few other ideas and almost posted a second time yesterday. Then it occurred to me that it may be a bad idea to post multiple times in one day.

Are the good folks of cyberspace really all that interested in what I have to say? Wait - actually I don't really care if they are or if they aren't.

Shouldn't I actually be working, not just sitting in front of my cpu reading blogs, and looking a people's flickr pages? No that wasn't really it either.

I think its this strange, self-imposed sense of obligation I feel to post on this site regularly. And if I blow my whole wad of ideas in one day, well then what the hell am I gonna post about? When will have another observation I'm compelled to share? So the thought was to kind of save up a few ideas...spread out over a few days.

So I thought I had a pretty good idea, but then I forgot.
I can't remember.
I have absolutely no idea what I was thinking of writing about yesterday.
None whatsoever.

Going forward, this is gonna be more of a stream of conscience sorta thing - when I think of something, it's going up. Maybe 3 in one day, and then nothing for a week. Thats just how it's gonna have to go down.