So here I am at the gates of sleep writing a blog entry. Things are busy as usual. Most of my programming is done (for now at least!). I updated the site with a lot of archived art, I only have one more art book and some photos to process. I finished my resume for teaching in Korea tonight. Tomorrow the recruiter mambo starts.
Before I forget, here are some animated GIF’s I found. I know you are probably bored with this game, but oh well.
So I managed to shoot some fall leaves finally. You can see them in a new gallery on the main gallery page. We took at trip to upstate New York with Nancy’s parents and I photographed there. We went to this nature preserve and hiked four miles, I think. The preserve is the highest place in New York I think. It was a nice view from the overlook where I snapped some shots. I saw a report on the news about how the leaves aren’t changing right this year due to global warming. They were talking about the Smoky Mountains I think. Most of them are just turning brown on the tree and then falling off. I have to say I noticed this as well. I remember when the fall used to be full of so much color. I hope those days aren’t over for good. We also went to this Buddhist temple that was near the preserve. It was a Korean temple that was still being built. There was a big festival going on that day and we got there a bit late so just had time to drink some tea. Most people had already left or were in the process of leaving. We hiked up to the temple and went inside. Nancy’s dad and another woman we were with showed us the proper way to bow and give respect and to make an offering. I haven’t had time to process those images yet. Stay tuned.
Nancy and I have managed to keep running just about every day. We went today as well. I have to say the the three miles doesn’t hurt much anymore. It’s a nice feeling. The air is starting to get windy and cold at times. I can feel the winter coming. It’s the first time I’ve felt that in many years. It makes me want to run back to California ASAP!!! But it’s fun too. It will be nice to see snow, if we’re around long enough. But even if we are in Korea we’ll see snow there too. I guess that will just be another excuse to photograph as I don’t have many snow pictures. 
So the vague plan so far is this: Do our one year tour in Korea and save some money. Depart from Korea and head to Bhutan. Head from Bhutan and go to Nepal. We’re thinking of doing this volunteer teaching at a Buddhist temple there where you get room and board for 3-6 months in exchange for teaching the monks English a few hours per day. They would also teach your martial arts and meditation skills in exchange along with some other stuff. After that try and make it up to Everest base camp… I’m going to research going higher because I know I’ll have the urge if I make it to base camp. I’m hoping the running and things I’m doing now help out. I’ve also been researching jobs and different positions in Antarctica. If I can get a NSF grant to photograph there that would be awesome. If not there are regular tech jobs or we might be able to go as research scuba divers. I know a guy from when I used to work at Backscatter that did that. Sounds like a blast. And I could get really cool pictures! Anyway, that’s the kind of things floating around in my head right now, we’ll see how much they change of the next year or two.
OK, it’s late and time for bed! Hope everyone is safe and well! Besos
