Tanka Challenge 4/6/09

Visions of stars and
Thoughts of a sake-cup moon
Break in on her day.
If only life were all silk
And bright lanterns in the dark!

(You know, as opposed to reports in illegiblly small fonts, power tools and paint fumes.)

Monday night status report

Knee-tweak of Sunday morning seems not to have been too serious. I did my two miles today slightly off-pace and being careful not to overstride and it feels OK, so I appear to have gotten off easy.

Shot some pics of the lanterns Friday. This is the best of the bunch and it's still a bit fuzzy because the shutter is so slow and I couldn't seem to manage to hold quite still enough. (The odd day-glow yellow dot at the left of the lantern is, in fact, an LED candle sitting on the table under the awning.)  Clearly I need practice. Still, even with the soft-core blur, my kaga chochin are dead sexy. Which is more than I can say for anything else in my life right now.

(Didn't take any other photos at Coronet.  I just got wound up in other things. Besides, there's nothing wrong with not spending an event staring through a viewfinder and shooting crap photos.)

Fiddled around with trying to transfer the write-up I did to my web page but I'm just not in the mood to finish it tonight. I don't like how it reads. I don't like how it looks. The Known World will have to wait a bit longer for plausibly-period-lantern-design instructions, that's all.