one way to slow down the shoveling

 the shoveling of food into my mouth.

Make it so spicy that even *I* have to take a break.

There was one large habanero left in the fridge, so i chopped it all up and put it in the 2 cups of rice and beans and make a taco salad with some mixed greens and cheese. Holy shit this was a SPICY one. 

What a week. Long week, short week, long weekend first? Tuesday night after four days off and two days of actually getting stuff done at home finally. I really just wanted to keep going with the projects at home that haven't gotten done because I haven't been home in years. With time and energy to do anything. That last part is important. Two days on the weekend aren't enough esp when you try to fit in a MTB ride, weekly grocery shopping and maybe races or bike shop work. But a couple days AFTER doing that? Prime time to actually do something. So I did.

Bike room was sorted and organized a little more on Monday since the weather was nice and I could take everything out. There are a lot of bikes in that damn tiny space. And it seems I have quite the collection of tubeless tires. Mostly 'gravel' CX. but yeah what to expect. I do also have a lot of really nice NOS 'vintage' 26" MTB tires. And well used but not dead CX tires (not tubeless). I did finally toss out the tires I was saving as a 'just in case' or 'i'll use this to line a larger tire' well work and dead but not blown up.

Tuesday was more of an organizational, evaluation day. Went through a bunch of stuff. Sorted and organized and cleaned. Still between both days the recycling AND garbage bins are full. Not the worst thing, more to do though. Much more to do.

Found a few more developing tanks. One double roll tank, so there's there. no more waiting for the fancy plastic peterson to dry before processing another roll of film.

Finally working through this last roll of expired TMax 400. 17 shots done. A handful more to go. Will be interesting to see how the exposures are w/o a working light meter. Maybe not the worst thing. Perhaps it is a good experiment to go through and really learn the feeling for what the f-stop and shutter speeds need to be.  Although this roll is not going to help, next few rolls are 100 or 200 speed (finer grain).

I did see this last night and reading it was pretty much precisely why I loved Tech Pan film. Miss that stuff.

This TMax400 has such a large grain size, but could be also the expired not kept cold part of it. Either way I don't hate this grain, and people like it but it still doesn't quite feel like me. But maybe I'll come back to it. We'll see.

It is a process.

Like life.

Did a long exposure last night and then a daylight one. Looking forward to seeing the scene in two different ways.

Now trying to psyc myself up to be awake enough after lunch (nice mellow low key burn in my mouth, so good) to do what needs to be done.

1pm meetings are some of the most difficult. Coffee and rally. 

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