Thanks to all who showed up this weekend and left beer at my house. My 31st year shall begin with much drinking.
Now it’s time to look forward to the next big event… after St. Patrick’s Day… and that is of course the annual Smithsonian Kite Festival. I went last year as a spectator and watched hundreds of people try to get little squares of fabric way up in the sky. This year, I plan to have a square of my own. I have a couple of prefab kites ready to go, and I also have some plain nylon in transit to my house, where, should enough time and creativity strike, I shall try to construct a third. So, on the 25th of March, why not join me with your own sail on the Mall. Or if you aren’t into the whole kite scene, there’s always the enjoyable prospect of freezing in the blustery wind while taking pictures of cherry blossoms.
For myself, this may be the springboard into a new hobby. I still need to do something with my hacked CVS camera, and rigging up a pivacet suspension and a remote shutter trigger to take pictures from the kite’s point of view sure seems like it could waste some time.