clock Tower

[earle_rich]

Sometimes we get a job that's just plain fun. The firehouse here in Mont Vernon is being torn down after being condemed and a new one going up in it's place. As the town photographer (self-appointed), I volunteered to take photos of the entire process. I shoot the building as it was, to demolition and then to reconstruction. This series will be on

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[malwae]

I used to love climbing around in places like that...

Happy Birthday by the way! (I still have that Soviet slide rule for you; just afraid it will get shattered in shipping, so I need to give it to you in person).

[earle_rich]

You don't love climbing around still?

67 today, feel as usual like I'm 30 or so. I do have an eye appointment tomorrow for a "vitreus detachment" condition in my left (good) eye. Apparently it's a common condition for people in my age group. Still annoying as I have a hazy type moving floater that interferes with viewing bright lights such as a computer screen. Tomorrow I have a "field screen" test that will show in more detail what is going on and if something can be done with it.

Looking forward to increasing my slide rule collection.

Love

Dad

[malwae]

There is a serious lack of musty old places in Seattle. Everything is new architecture, nothing is slipping into decay.

Ugh, the eye thing sounds unpleasant; hope they can get it straightened out.

[earle_rich]

Not that bad. The visual fields analysis was interesting. It's a test for peripheral perception. You fix your head into a frame, gaze at a lighted dot and press the button whenever a light goes off somewhere around that dot. The computer keeps track of the position of the dot, button presses and deviation of the eye from the center target. I'm proud to say that my attention didn't wander off the target so there was very little "noise" in the test. The doctor will let me know later the results.

Dad