Life of Brian

After this weekend’s big push we are now more than a third of the way to the goal of taking a picture of every Post Office in the state of South Carolina. Today we did a dozen on the way home from Greenville. This is a different angle than I used in the gallery of my favorite Post Office for today, Cross Hill.

For breakfast I had a bowl of raisin ban, a cinnamon bun, half a banana and a small OJ. Donna had half an order of biscuits and gravy, half a banana and a bagel with cream cheese, water to wash it all down.

Today’s photo total was pretty good, we have had 2 days with 13, so it would have ranked as the second most productive day if it hadn’t been for Saturday. On Saturday we did 7 POs on the way to Greenville. Took a break at the hotel for a while and then did 4 on the way to the ballgame we didn’t stay for, doing four more before calling it a night. For a total of fifteen pictures on Saturday. Speaking of night, two of those photos were shot in the dusk and the last two were taken in the dark. They didn’t come out half bad, so we may be doing more low light images.

Lunch today was at a Taco Bell in Greenwood. Two chicken taco supremes for Donna and I had 3 soft beef tacos. A medium Sierra Mist fountain drink was shared between the two of us.

156 Post Offices down with 304 to go. This weekend’s photos are up in the Gallery or on the Flickr page. No captioning yet and the titles need fixing. No geotags on the Flicker images yet either, so they don’t show up on the map. Go peek if you just need to see how many ways I can put a Miata in a Post Ofice parking lot, but if you want a story to go with the image, come back later this week.

Got more of the deck done today. I quit at around three quarters mark. I still have that one corner, the seat area, the railing, the three steps to the yard and the whole outside of the railings. I had to stop because it started to rain. Now you are asking yourself why would a little rain make me stop. I mean, I’m already pretty much soaked from the over spray, plus I’m getting wet from above because I’m washing off the soffits and gutters while I’m at it. Just feels foolish standing out in the rain I guess.

Last night, the used once two years ago pressure washer seemed to be acting funny, it wouldn’t come up to full pressure at first. It would start and when I squeezed the trigger it would come up to about half power. After holding the trigger in about 30 seconds to a minute then it would kick in. A couple times it wouldn’t ever jump up to full pressure. Turning it off and on wouldn’t help. Then one time I squeezed the trigger and then hit the power, it came right up to full speed. Tried that same procedure the next time and it worked again. So now I have been doing that each time I start/restart after a break. I wonder if that is the proper procedure. Maybe if I had read the directions I’d know.

EDIT:

I forgot we went out to breakfast. Blueberry muffin for her and a coconut pineapple cream muffin for me and we split a bottled water.

It has been over a month since we’ve taken any Post Office photos, but that may change this weekend. That may change this weekend, weather depending. The summer is a slower time anyway because it is too damn hot for most of the day. The only time it is safe to be out without cooking your brains is mornings before 9:00 AM. And for maybe the next month you can get away with after 9:00 PM, but once July rolls around even then it is too hot and sticky to enjoy the outdoors.

Broke down and started the deck project. Cleaned about half of it tonight with the pressure washer. Maybe tomorrow I can get the other half done. Sealing it can be done over several days after work next week. Speaking of broke down, I kind of broke the screen door to the deck. Where the door is it gets a lot of slashing from the gutters when it rains, so it has been slowly deteriorating. I pushed it over the edge by knocking off a trim strip and letting loose the bottom of the screen. Rather than try to repair the door we may just go to Home Depot and get a new one. A new wood door is like $20.