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I hauled the paint palette to Mac Ag Museum but only made it to the front gate. There, I found the October color in max swing next to the fence post where I set the paint palette left of the heavily laden plum tree. The fence post was already draped by a showy shrub. The leafy branches held the palette as I stood on the post, bottom.
Hey, nobody was focusing in on this feast of color or me fiddling with the paint palette. I always enjoy coming up on something new out here at McIntosh exactly as I found on this excursion! Egad, photographs always get in the way of my treks. Such is the way of my life!
I set out on a trek with the palette that day at the Ag Museum but it turned into a slack day. I was headed down to the McIntosh Lake circle trail but instead carried the palette around to search more shots. I thought I had something here that would pick up the autumn. Though it is ultra dry, we keep praying for rain and some cool. A streak of 80s in October graced us in October. Here Ryan Zinky Dinky has yet to raffle the entire state off to his corporate supporters.
This was a day with dead sky toward the mountains. I originally thought that I better get some exercise but here I am at a standstill. There is always something at McIntosh. I am fighting time poorly spent behind this keyboard and monitor. Amazon and Echo don't want you to get up and move but scientists say that after all their studies on longevity, exercise is the most reliable way to extend life.
Like many in the computer industry, I graduated from college thin and fit, but since then, through years of all-nighters, sitting in front of my screen for long hours, and a rich diet I became overweight. I went from 190 to 242 pounds as I grew into each role: graphic designer, user interface designer, customer experience researcher, businessperson, husband, father, and community member. Last Fall I said, "Enough already!"
Recently I decided that working standing up would help me live a more active life. It's worked. Along with meditating, running, hiking, and kayaking, working standing up (with hourly interludes of pushups, situps or yoga) I've dropped 30 pounds. My thinking is clearer for longer and you're more likely to find me with things in perspective.
I'm fortunate enough to work at home above Chuckanut Bay in Bellingham, Washington.
This stand up desk is a piece of cedar with its live edge intact. On it I have room for a Dell 24" monitor as well as my MacBook Pro, and my good old Monsoon sound system. The hard drive holds the documentary I am working on called "Stumblebum".
My family watches DVDs here as well. We haven't adopted the big screen tv model yet as we all have such different tastes we're more likely to pair off and just watch on one person's laptop or another.
Five laptops add up to one big screen tv, don't they?