After a busy day like yesterday I spent today mostly relaxing, I did take a leisurely stroll around the campground but that was pretty much my only activity.

I was going to go back to the Verizon store and discuss the jetpack unlimited plan with them but that sounded like more mental effort than I was capable of dealing with today so maybe I'll go tomorrow.

I need to install the new battery I bought yesterday in one of my trailer tire pressure sensors but that requires me to either crawl under the living room slide to get to the tire or bring in the slide, both of which Required more physical effort than I cared to expend at the moment.

I was also considering installing the thumb screw I recently bought that holds the plastic cap on my sewer hose storage container. But that was going to mean I would have to drill a small hole in a thin piece of plastic which seemed like more work than I could accomplish considering my current lackadaisical state of mind

There's a few other things that I need to do but I think I used up my entire weeks allotment of ambition yesterday and may be incapable of doing anything more than feeding myself for the next several days.

                                                                       theboondork

Today was an eventful day, I managed to scrape together enough ambition to actually accomplish some things that I've been putting off for a while. And the only explanation I can think of is I ended up in a shopping center that had all the stores in that one area that I needed to get everything done at one time and in one location.

I've had a dead battery in one of my wireless tire pressure monitors for over a month and I've been procrastinating all that time when all I had to do was go out and buy a new battery for the thing. Well today there was a Lowe's in the shopping center and I ran in there to get something else and lo and behold there was a battery rack that had the battery I needed.

Then, since it was lunchtime, I walked across the parking lot where there was a Rays pizza shop, which happens to be my favorite pizza, and had lunch.

There's a Walmart in that shopping center so I went into Walmart, picked up a few groceries and got a pneumonia shot that I've been planning on getting for a while but never got around to. A while back Barney the Old Fat Man wrote in his blog that he had just taken a pneumonia shot which reminded me that I needed to do the same and figured that if he could get that shot without screaming and crying like a little girl I could to...... looks like I was wrong. Good thing there's other Walmart near me because I don't think they'll let me in that store anymore.

But the best thing that happened to me all day, besides the pharmacist removing that turkey baster size needle from my arm, is there's a Verizon store in that shopping center. And this store actually had the 8800L jetpack thingy that I've been looking for all this time. And that jetpack is the key to me having truly unlimited hotspot data.

I bought the jetpack but I didn't sign up for the unlimited plan yet because I haven't figured out what kind of new plan I need for my phone now that I don't need a bunch of gigs of hotspot data on my phone anymore. But hopefully I'll get all that straightened out before the end of the week.

Well as you can see it was a busy day today and it's gonna take a lot of relaxing to get over it. But I've got plenty of time, days when I feel ambitious are few and far between.

                              theboondork

A few years ago years ago when I was still living in Colorado I tried experimenting with time-lapse photography. It looked interesting and I had nothing better to do at the time. So I would set up my camera on a tripod, put the tripod on my back deck, point it at Pike's Peak and set the camera to snap a picture every 10 seconds or so for half an hour, and then go back in the house and let the camera do all the work.

Now I lived on the north side of Pike's Peak so the view I had was not the normal frontal view that you get from the East when you're in Colorado Springs but it was a beautiful view nonetheless.

Time-Lapse happens to be one of the better types of photography for a lazy guy like me, because you spend two minutes setting up the camera and half-hour relaxing in your easy chair waiting for it to complete, I figured this was going to be my favorite method of taking pictures.

But after doing that for a while two problems became readily apparent, problem one was, making an interesting time-lapse requires a lot more talent than I possess or could conceivably acquire. and problem two, I didn't know what to do with the time-lapses when I finished them because they were just a bunch of five or 10 second random clips that had no rhyme,  reason or relation to each other. So I put the video clips aside and they've been laying around cluttering up my computer for too many years now.

The other day while getting rid of useless stuff on my computer I found that folder of time-lapse clips and was going to delete it but then I thought about all of the time I spent relaxing while they were being made and figured I should do something useful with them. So I literally just threw them together as a video, put some copyright free music with them and uploaded them to YouTube in the hope that somebody, somewhere, will enjoy looking at them, and if not, I disavow any knowledge of them whatsoever.

                                 theboondork




PS.   A little insider information that only the kind folks that read my blog will know. If you go to the 1.53 time in the video, and look down in the bottom right hand corner, you will see what looks like a little bug zipping around in the snow, but it's actually a very large snowplow plowing the road that goes to the top of Pike's Peak.