…I thought I’d update my meaningless blog with the meaningless things I did this week.

The one interesting thing that happened to me occurred last Thursday: my car was stolen. After sharing a few laughs with my baffled parents, and then getting very excited that the day had come when I would finally get a new car, the police showed up and said that it was found abandoned in a nearby park a mile down the road, windows down and looted. What the fuck.

I’m not sure why someone picked on my car, but once they put it in drive they must have realized with haste what a piece of shit it was. “No wonder they didn’t keep it,” said the very sarcastic police officer that drove me to the park to pick it up. It took me five times behind the wheel to get the thing to turn over.

Not only did the bastards who took it for a very short joy ride steal all my CDs, they took my cassette tapes. My TAPES! And we’re not even talking about very popular music choices here. I’m referring to my Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel, Miles Davis’ Doo Bop, a very interesting album which Davis recorded with a rap group in the early 90s, and other hip tracks like a collection of Gil Scott Heron songs. Come on people! Those tapes were awesome. When you drive a car made in 1987, you learn to love your tape deck.

I guess I’ll have to wait a few more years for a new ride. And to those cretins who most likely have the spare key to my Volvo that was in the console hidden beneath my tape collection: if you decide to take it for another spin, keep it this time.

Anyway, the rest of my week was uneventful. Exceedingly so. It was also very sad. One of my very best friends Kim Miller and her wonderful husband Chris moved away this week. It was very emotional for me. I have been spending a lot of time with her over the last few months and have shared so many great times. I know I will see her again but the next few months will be very sad for me without her, especially involving everything photography. Kim made me appreciate my camera in so many new ways and I don’t know what I will do without her constant sharp eye guiding mine through the viewfinder. 

Chris imparted me with some very special gifts before they rolled out of town. One was this amazing 100% silk necktie made in Vietnam. I wore it to work today and received many compliments on it’s shininess and color scheme! I have a new appreciation for neckties ever since I started working at Moonstone Grill. I tied it myself, thank you very much. Another gift was this super rad t-shirt. I guess the image was a drawing done by Chris’s dad Larry, who I hear was a great man. I will cherish these two items with all my heart! 

Also: Kim, I really wish you hadn’t moved away for one more reason. I suck at photoshop. My color balances and exposures are so fucked up and I’m so lazy to do it right and I need you to help me. So come back. THANKS!