January 22 2012 – Fun a Day
I stopped into Fox Liquor and Groceries on my way home from the Farmers Market this morning. I decided to kill my Crazy Hearts losing streak, and purchased a “Silver 7’s” scratcher. It paid off, and I won $2. While there were no sevens about this winning, I think I’ll survive.
January 9 2012– fun-a-day!
I am crazy for Crazy Hearts!!! This is my second “win” with a ticket of this design. The ticket pictured below won me a lovely $2. It was purchased from Civic Center Market as I hastily rushed from my morning job to my afternoon job.
January 8, 2012 Fun-A-Day
On my walk home from the farmers market this morning, the New Princess Market at the corner of Hyde and Eddy failed me, as I did not win.
I did not even come close.
camera bag
Film developing was always a splurge.
At $9 a roll, it was something that I had to carefully spend around, given my half-time job and San Francisco rent.
The drug stores and supermarket chains never did the color right, so I tended to avoid them, despite their more attractive prices.
Then last of my favorite photo developing chain finally closed.
I tried a new fancy place down in SOMA, but the guy was a dick. Furthermore, I paid $14 for 24 single, poorly developed photographs.
So just before January, I finally clawed my way into the new millennium and charged myself a digital camera.
But how does one carry a $500 piece of hardware when they live in the heart of the city and they don’t want to get mistaken for a yuppie?!?
I would buy one of those fancy camera bags, but I really don’t need the people in the neighborhood knowing that I have an excellently muggable device. Let alone a sort of bouge-y fondness of taking pictures. Furthermore, most camera bags are dorky and they cost too much.
So I decided to make one.
After a few weeks of casual plotting, I realized that I had:
1. a smallish messenger bag that I rarely use
2. a leopard print polar fleece pajama top
3. extra padding that came with my past two bicycle helmets
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1, 2
I made a liner sack out of the pajama top, sewed some padding onto the back wall of it, and more into a little pillow for the bottom of the bag. The idea was to put protective padding where the camera would most likely meet impacts.
glitter and dirt-- scraps and dessert 