A stupid reason!! They are changing the login process at work and give two reasons, one valid reason and one stupid (we want it to look like Microsoft’s login). They should just have omitted the second reason, it would have sounded much better.

Happy days (not my car, not my ticket)

I’m too old for this !!!

Jag undrar om det har hänt något med de som kör lastbil (och jag tror inte detta rör sig om utländska förare). I år har jag sett tre lastbilar med släp som kört fast inne i stan, två gånger i rondell och en gång längs en väg där det inte brukar köra lastbilar med släp. Det verkar så orutinerat och jag har aldrig sett det förut. Precis som det är många nya förare.

I know a few people who works close to where this is. They are not happy about having to listen to hours of “music”. Note the tin can, the last time I passed here, the musician had it on his foot and was stomping out the beat of whatever he was playing. Not enjoyable!

I haven’t had a photo project since I broke my a-photo-a-day streak, and unfortunately I haven’t come up with a new photo project … and it makes me feel itchy. I didn’t expect to be so “dependent” on some kind of project.

Haven’t been photographing for 2-3 weeks now, yes - I’ve taken pictures of stuff but no photos.

Completely blown away

Once again, I prove that I’m an idiot

I’m probably an “old man yelling at the clouds” but I’m starting to dislike web apps more and more.

Trying out my new wide-angle lens

Hmmm, I just got an email “Castro is currently transitioning to new ownership”. I’m hoping for the best

What a chunk of glass. I bought an old secondhand wide angle zoom 14-24/2.8 (full frame), I’m going to be careful so I don’t topple over 😄

From today’s lunch walk

The most frustrating part of learning a language so far: while understanding what is said, I don’t understand the tone/value of what is being said.

Super frustating

Funny moment of the day. We spent some time at a cafe and a couple sat a table close to us. The man had propped up his phone on the table, had earbuds in and was completely focused on a football game. The woman didn’t look too happy.

Did I take photos? Of course I did … but they stay unpublished.

Nice weather today, sun, snow and -22°C — -28°C, perfect winter weather. On my way to try out my first escape room event.

On July 1, 2021, I started a “200 days” project, i.e., I wanted to see if I could take a photo each day and put it online (I have many that I haven’t posted yet). Yesterday, 18 January 2024, the streak ended when I unfortunately forgot to take a photo. So the big question is, what should I do now?

The very ironic part is that I was in two meetings yesterday talking about photography, then I edited a photo to see if different crops could improve it. So, two hours of talking about photos + editing, and I still couldn’t remember to take a photo … 🤦🏻‍♂️

When I mentioned this online, I got several comments.

@odd @jean @pcora @jeroensangers @maique McTwist thinks that I should carry on, saying that I’m allowed to have a free day or use the photo I was editing. @bryan suggests that I check for an automated photo from a surveillance camera (unfortunately, I don’t have one).

@birming thinks that 2 photo meetings + editing equals one photo. @Miraz andseachanged suggests that it’s the end of a project, that I should enjoy the achievement and just relax.

@gregmoore asks a few interesting questions that need answering:

Now that the project has an end date, what it mean to you? I had to think about this. At the beginning, I was anxious about missing a day, a bit too much I would say. However, when I started this project I decided that I shouldn’t try to take a good photo, instead it would be enough with a photo. This has made things much easier and I stopped worrying.

Later, it became a habit that I’ve enjoyed (almost every day) and it has made me look at the world in a slightly different way.

It has also taught me that not every photo has to be the best photo, even a really “bad” photo can be a good photo.

Did you learn anything from so many hundreds of successful days? Yes, photos that are important to me, are not necessarily the objectively best photos. It has made me realize that I should take more photos of my daily life and save them.

Also, that “having” to take a photo each day has forced me to look at the world in a slightly different way. And that no matter what, there is always a photo to be taken … you just have to see it.

Did you learn less than you thought? I have to admit that I didn’t expect much, I expected to fail before getting to 200 days, so it has been a very successful project - regardless of what I decide to do now.

Will you restart or is another project calling to you? This is what I need to think about. As I see it I have three alternatives:

1. Start over, ending the project and see if I can get 933 days this time. Most honest.

2. Say that I’m allowed one free day/1000 days, post the edited photo and continue.

3. Start a completely new project that doesn’t involve taking a daily photo.

I need to think about this, I’ve taked photos so all three options are open to me.

Greg ends with “You’ve reached an exciting moment”.

Yes, I need to think about this over the weekend. which of solutions listed above should I choose … because I need some kind of project.

I failed. Yesterday I would have taken my 932 consecutive daily photo but I forgot. So now I have to figure out what to do.

Två ord som borde strykas från svenska är “snösmocka” och “snökanon”