Stop drop and roll

Before I am accused of plagiarism, the photo above is a photo I took, but I took it from my computer screen as I watched a DVD of a classic movie I rented to study the composition and what not. This is the only screen shot I got that doesn't totally give away the movie so I was wondering if anyone would recognize it. I think I will start taking a lot more photos of the movies I watch as I find that if forces me to pay more attention to how the scene is composed, and I learn a lot. I just wish I would use what I learn.

This is part two of "How I spend my days" Especially for you, Ms. Write Again Soon. The rest of you are better off just skipping it.

Today was Sunday - wake up late (9:30), lay in bed until 10:00, stagger to the kitchen table for tea and Tomoe's ultra-healthy, sugar free, vegan, organic, local, macrobiotic, (and whatever else you can think of) breakfast cookies.

I spent the rest of the morning working on the content management system I talked about Friday. At 2:00 Tomoe and I went for a long walk to Koenji, a nearby neighborhood that is known for lots of used clothing and CD stores. We didn't buy anything there, but on the way home we found a used junk shop with a nice ume-boshi jar for only 300 yen. We're not sure yet if we will use it for ume-boshi or for nuka-zuke. Either way, it was a steal.

We also stopped at the Nakano library to return some books from two weeks ago, and get some more books for the next two weeks. The books I borrowed included Illustration magazine (Japanese version), two books from a series I have been going through following of Chihiro Iwasaki's watercolors, a Mapple of Hokkaido so we can plan our next bike trip, and an informative book about historical significance of some famous Japanese geographical features.

We got back around 5:30, and I was feeling a little anxious that i had not gotten done everything that I had hoped to over the weekend -including such things as become a master at Photoshop, create a simply kick-arse CMS for the client, take a lot of award-winning photos, make satisfactory mimics of Chihiro's watercolors, become fluent in Japanese, run many kilometers, push-ups and sit-ups, relax, re-plant my roof-top garden, write on the blog, catch up on my news reading, finish "Bourne Ultimatum" (which I totally lost interest in a few weeks ago), and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember now.

Anyway, when we got back we ate some great curry and bread made with live yeast that Tomoe has been experimenting with. I did a little more work on the client's web-site, studied some kanji, did some Photoshop tutorials I found on the web, and now I am writing this.

I'm sorry to say that the birds did not get their toes stuck in-between the keys of the keyboard (as has happened in the past) although Tomoe tells me that yesterday Klee was playing by the stove as Tomoe cooked, and suddenly fell to the floor and began rolling around and screaming. The closest we can figure is that she was on fire and stopped dropped and rolled.