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My company is in the process of a merging with, rather than acquiring or being taken over by, another company in the UK. This is the subject of our secret meeting today. I'm not sure if I should be worried. It sounds like it will take at least a few months for it to really get rolling, so I guess I won't know 'till June or July. So I won't worry 'till then, anyway.

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Having taken (and brushed up) so many pictures for moiracoon for her Etsy project, I've been reminded of just how nice my 50mm lens is (or perhaps more accurately, how crappy my 28-80 zoom is) and have been thinking once again of photography. The warmer weather is a deciding factor here too, of course. I need to get my butt in gear and finish organizing and keywording the remaining couple thousand I have already (I got about a thousand done over the winter) and start making more. As soon as the Spring melt is done, I'm planning on checking out the Kenosha storm drains again and trying some long exposures with lighting effects. I'd like to go to the church in Gary again too and retake one that has a lot of potential but didn't quite frame up right in my last trip with mocha_mephooki. I still don't have the wide angle lens I want; but I'm looking for it on Ebay here and there. Eventually it will be mine. I hope.

The church is so beautiful. And it, and everything else around, seem like they're decaying faster these days. There's a beautiful old barn I pass on the way to work everyday whose roof caved in under the heavy snows a month or so ago, and I hate to think about what's happened to the Palace Theatre since I was there last. And that's not to mention all of the old farm buildings that have been torn down near where I work lately. And everywhere are the no-trespassing signs, like scratches on a record, keeping me from experiencing the beauty that I know is under them. When I first got my camera, I drove out during my lunch hour and shot a hundred or so pictures of a two floor storage shed with some old harvesting equipment in it. I intended to go back later and look upstairs when I had more time, but only a week or so later there were no trespassing signs up. It made me sad.

I need to try to contact the owners of the Roosevelt Theatre in Kenosha again too. I left a message once, in the Fall, and never heard back. I'd really like to photograph the interior before the raze or repair order that I hear has been applied to it comes due.