No Zooming For Me

I was so excited this week when I got a call from my old College Photography teacher Jeff.  He has spent the year trying to pare down his classroom courses to be able to provide them online.  It's one of those Zoom things.  By the way, since school is OUT, zoom is in and has garnered the owner over $12 billion (that's billion with a B) in this last year only.  Even more interesting, he is from China, just to get your thought processes going.

Anyway, I really didn't want to get involved with zoom, but being able to see the latest results of Jeff's classes and give them a little critique is very special.   I ALWAYS show up, no matter what.  On this day however, it just wasn't going to happen.  

My internet service only works from 3-5:00 in the morning because only us chickens are awake.  Even then, I seem to be having a hard time signing in.  No matter what I did, I could not get my internet faster than a very sick tortoise.  

Just throwing this image out there .... this is at the Salton Sea.

 This is me trying to get it set up.  I had hoped I might use my iphone.  I did sign in, but alas, you can't SEE anything on your phone, only hear the conversation.  It doesn't bode well for critiquing photography when you can't SEE. 

 It actually was the expected ending to an otherwise imperfect day.  In the morning I quickly tried to get rid of all the junk hanging out in various corners, just in case the Alarm Installation guy was single.  You just never know.  

And then I waited ......... and waited .......... and finally called the set-up gal who insisted I call the office.  Well that's funny, they don't have me on their schedule at all.  GREAT!!!  All that stuffing things out of sight and no one is going to show up.

I wasted an entire half a day sitting around waiting.  Apparently she made the appointment for TODAY when I won't be home instead of YESTERDAY.  That's just my luck, right?  It's now scheduled for Friday.  This image is just to remind me to take a deep breath. 

That's it ... that's all I did yesterday.  At least I got a couple of loads out to the rig, but they were minimal.  Maybe I'll show you a few pictures of our trip to Costa Rica ... Mrs. Patty Chance and I.  We signed up for this trip, not being able to attend any of the preparation meetings, meaning we didn't know what the heck we were in for.  

This was our transportation for an extra 3-day adventure into the jungle where there is NO transportation other than your legs.  We did think it funny that we two were the only ones in our group who added the 3-day trip.  That should have been a really big flashing neon sign, but we missed it.  

Those are propane bottles being loaded onto the same flat bottom boats because there's no other way for the locals to cook.  It rained, as in not only cats and dogs but hippos and elephants, almost the entire time we were there. 

Since most haven't seen or heard about our little excursion into the depths of unexplored jungle, I'll post a picture here and there.  

In the meantime, it's a bookkeeping day for me, closing up my clients books for the year.  Here's hoping it goes better than yesterday.