Highpoint at Night

I recently carried a camera along on the evening dog-walk with Wendy and our friend Penny, as I've wanted to try and get a picture of the pond for quite some time. Next time I'll have to also carry a tripod, and I'd like to try an image-stabilization lense, and see if the results improve any...

This first picture is probably the best as far as image quality. Most of our condo (And one of the Parkside homes) reflecting in the Highpoint Pond.

An image of the Redwood at Highpoint condos, and the stream feeding into the pond.

My favorite composition, this has has a nice feeling, but is unfortunately a little blurry. One of the problems with trying to hold a camera steady for a 1/3 second exposure at night...

Time is on my side, yes it is...

Just had that little bit of music running through my head for some reason, had to share.

So, I seem to be among the ranks of the unemployed at the moment, searching for a new position within the realm of Software Development again. I have a few prospects, an interview later today, and another interview expected to be scheduled any time now. Just waiting for the email to come through.

In the meantime, I've been doing a little more reading, updating my mobile device to the latest software (have a couple of things to test before I update Wendy's device...)

The new version has some nifty features, and a few changes from previous that would be even more usable if I had a job... but anyway...

To the point - I recently started using Mobipocket to be able to read digital books from the library. It's a little different than reading a paper copy of a book, the page is very small and doesn't contain a lot of text, so getting used to "turing" pages frequently was a little bit of a step. Now I kind of like it though, as I can leave the application running in the background, and access the book at a moments notice. And I have my phone with me at all times anyway, so it not like having to carry an extra book to have something to read when I want to, you know?

Right now I am reading Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon that I checked out from the Seattle Public Library. I haven't downloaded much of anything else yet, as I'm kind of a "one book at a time" type guy.

Anyway, since it had been a while since I'd posted anything, I thought I should start writing again, and see where it leads.