So I guess I’ve decided, three years after tossing it up here, to actually do something with this site. Who knows where it’ll take me.
Anyway, thanks to Sonny from PodCacher, in January of this year I started taking part in what I’ve since discovered is the invention of one Chad Darnell: the somewhat unintuitively named “Twelve of Twelve”. Here below is that first installment, backdated to its creation.
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Here’s my 12 of 12 for January 2008.
The SquamDogs, after their morning P&P, begin each day right here. I guess that means that I do, too. I took this with the camera phone, thinking I wasn’t going to be bringing the camera today.
I changed my mind.
We’re passing through Meredith (NH), as I do on my most enjoyable regular commute. This is thus ten minutes into the two-hour drive to Logan to drop off T1.
I had two "getting to the big city" pics… the first was the classic first skyline view at the top of a rise on 93… but somehow the Zakim bridge is the new "hey we’re back in Boston" icon.
P, T1, T2. T1, the older of the two, is headed back to Alaska, her new home base. (The younger is joining her this summer. Very exciting.)
Cows on Parade! I was obsessed with this concept years ago, and kept a record of all of the cows… we gave each of the three kids a different tree ornament from this series back then… and now there are cows at Logan. This is the kind of thing that truly brightens my day. (Incidentally, this is one of two we saw.)
I also love the long room and its ceiling. We spent a lot of time in this terminal today.
In my college dorm twenty-some-odd years ago, the bathroom had two mirrors facing each other like this. I revisited that dorm during my nephew’s graduation from my alma mater last May… and I realized I wished I’d taken pictures of that cool effect. Today I didn’t get time to get it right… someone was coming in, and conspicuousness in airport rest rooms has recently been shown to have negative consequences.
I was taken with the artistry of the about-to-spill cup the moment I saw it, but really the reason I took the photo is a tiny little nonsensical diacritical mark on the sign on the right. I can’t even reproduce it here… but just what is one supposed to do with that accented "t"?
As the flight was delayed, and as the women in my life have a quirky fascination with airports, we spent about an hour on the top floor of the parking garage…. I have many photos of her plane, but this one I took because the passenger’s sister said "Hey, hold the binoculars so I can take a picture" and I expressed heavy—evidently misguided—skepticism. It’s a great new trick, and I stand corrected.
(T1′s on the other side of the plane BTW. She saw us as she took off.)
I’m thinking an Eiffel should find its way into each 12 of 12. Like Hitchcock in every one of his films. Here’s how the control tower looked from our vantage point.
This is a cameraphone shot of TGI Fridays in Concord, NH. First time I’ve been to the chain in over thirty years I think. It wasn’t too bad, really. Anyway, I include this because we like to peoplewatch, and these were the people whose lives have now rewritten.
The Podcacher forums have lately become a large part of my life. I’m enjoying the phase; may it have a good run.
Anyway, I’m in a pool for Survivor: Micronesia, and I chose my first contestant tonight. Mikey B sounds like a good guy. And he’s from Boston. I can’t believe I’m getting back into Survivor after all these years.
