This tree was off in the distance, just outside of town as I drove home.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Category: My Photos
Caveat: Tree #1898 “Broke”
This tree broke.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1897 “Jumping the gun”
This tree was near where I used to live in Ilsan, South Korea. I took this picture in October, 2017. It had a tendency to jump the gun on Autumn, always ahead of all the other sidewalk trees.
I experienced a motivational deficit, today.
[daily log: walking, 1km;]
Caveat: Tree #1896 “Leftover snow”
This tree noticed some leftover snow.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 1hr]
Caveat: Tree #1895 “Fading away”
This tree saw the snow fade away.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1894 “The cowering Jeep”
This tree was towering over my cowering, ill-used Jeep.
Elmer comes in the store. We are talking about who is native, who is not, among locals on the island, here. You can’t always tell who is “native” – there’s been a lot of mixing over the generations, so it mostly has to do with enrollment in a tribal group, appearance doesn’t always tell you a lot about a person’s status as a native. Anyway, somewhat out of the blue, Elmer says, “You know, Richard Nixon was Tlingit.” I said, “Oh really, how’s that?” Elmer, not missing a beat, says, holds his two hands up in the “double peace sign” and says, “I am NOT a crook.” This, somehow, proves that Nixon was a Tlingit.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1893 “A belated April Fools”
This tree wished me a belated April Fools day as I drove home from work on the famous PSN expressway (dirt road).
Yikes. This morning, when I’d arrived at work, Arthur called me. This is quite rare, that he will call me at work. The reason he called me: he couldn’t figure out how to turn on the TV. This felt a bit alarming. I guess I should feel relief that I’ve made it super easy for him to call me at the store, programming it into the house phone on a speed dial setting.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1892 “Giant city”
This tree was behind a dumpster proudly owned by the CITY OF CRAIG. It’s a giant city, population, 1000.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1891 “Acceptance”
This tree will accept Spring’s challenges.
Arthur said something quite lucid this evening, after we ended our weekly skype conversation with his brother Alan (my other uncle). Arthur said, “I think my memory is operating at about 2%.” That seems about right to me, I hate to say.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1890 “Off beyond”
This tree off beyond the treehouse’s balcony.
A joke: “You’ll never know what kind of impact you’ll have on this earth until you fall down.”
[daily log: walking, 2km;]
Caveat: Tree #1889 “소방서 뒤에”
This tree was a scraggly, bare tree planted in the sidewalk behind the fire station across the street from my apartment in Ilsan, South Korea. I was noting that some snow had fallen in December, 2013.
Still haven’t been feeling super healthy. So I ended up being quite lazy today – didn’t accomplish much at all.
Saw this online. It’s interesting to think about.
Grab a couple of dice. Roll them. If you get below 5, those are rookie numbers. Shout at the dice, let them know they’re underperforming. If you get above 9, that’s what we want to see! They’re good dice, and you should acknowledge that. Repeat that and keep a record. You’ll notice that negative feedback often results in better performance on the next roll. Positive feedback, conversely, can make them get lazy. When you truly understand why this method of dice management works, you are ready to give feedback to people.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1888 “Horizon with distant mountain”
This tree formed part of the horizon.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1887 “Bent”
This tree was bent.
I had a pretty terrible day. Feeling “under the weather” and suffering a couple of financial “gotchas” at the store. Feeling inadequate the tasks I’ve taken on for myself.
[daily log: walking, 5.5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1886 “Sparse clouds”
This tree was below some sparse clouds.
A silly joke: My wife screamed “you haven’t listened to a single word I’ve said, have you?!” I was taken aback….what a weird way to start a conversation.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1885 “Behold, a dark raincloud”
This tree beheld a dark raincloud.
Funny joke seen online: “My neighbor couldn’t afford his water bill, so I got him a ‘Get Well Soon’ card.”
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1884 “Sea view”
This tree had a view of the sea.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1883 “The rant that wasn’t”
This tree anticipated more photons, soon.
I was planning to write a long rant about road maintenance and technocracy… but I’m too tired and can’t be bothered. Imagine that a rant was written.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 4hr]
Caveat: Tree #1882 “태극기”
This tree is under a giant Korean flag. I took this picture in January, 2009, walking home from work on a Saturday afternoon.
It’s good to not get too monotonous with the local tree-pics.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1881 “Pre-house”
This tree noted the lack of progress on the little house thingy (I call it the “pre-house”) on Lot 73. I’m not bothered by this – the neighbor who’s doing this project for me has had other jobs that are much higher priority, involving improvements to his own lot. The pre-house will wait.
The reason I call it the pre-house is because the future actual house will be attached to it – at which point, this structure becomes a kind of previously-existing small appendage to the future house.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1880 “Sunshine”
This tree saw unseasonal morning sunshine on the first day of Spring. I still expect we’ll see a bit more snow at some point, but who knows – the weather here isn’t very predictable in that respect.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1879 “A departing sun”
This tree was briefly lit by a departing sun.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1878 “Fear and trembling”
This tree saw Richard’s excavator in the neighborhood. I suppose excavators make trees tremble with fear.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1877 “Death by the window”
This tree is a young bay laurel tree I had in a bucket in the house. It did really well for about a year then just mysteriously seems to have died (or having grown quite unhealthy, began approaching death asymptotically) a few weeks ago. I am very sad.
[daily log: walking, 1km;]
Caveat: Tree #1876 “Resting”
This tree was in some snow a a few weeks ago, at the 8-mile bridge. I am showing this picture because I didn’t take a fresh tree picture today.
Art took a walk down the road today, and apparently (I wasn’t there) sat down (or lay down?) to “rest” and someone thought he was a body in the road and “rescued” him and brought him home. Art claims nothing went wrong he was just resting. I’m not so sure.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km;]
Caveat: Tree #1874 “My π tattoo is taking longer than expected”
This tree noted that my much-neglected treehouse continues to fail to fall down.
Joke read online (made me laugh): “My π tattoo is taking longer than expected.”
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 1hr]
Caveat: Tree #1873 “Waiting around / sheer panic”
This tree awaited the approaching darkness.
I’m really not doing well lately. I’m really stressed by the financial “bookkeeping” side of running the store – especially preparing for and dealing with tax-related stuff. I hate preparing taxes even when they’re easy – and this year, for the first time in my life (arguably), they are definitely NOT easy. Running a small business is a bureaucratic tangle worthy of Kafka.
Meanwhile, I feel like I’ve increasingly lost a technical grasp of the websites I run – they coast along but there are aspects of how they work that I truly cannot understand, and that leaves me feeling helpless when things go wrong – as happened this evening with the main map website.
Arthur is unpredictable – as I’ve mentioned many times before, being a caretaker to Arthur is a bit like being an active-duty military person: 95% waiting around and doing stupid make-work, and 5% sheer panic and SOLVE THIS PROBLEM NOW!
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1872 “Amid the panoptic gray”
This tree saw a momentary slice of blue amid the panoptic gray.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1871 “Add crunch to your commute”
This tree bore witness to my morning commute, now with added crunchiness and slipperiness, due to steady drizzle falling on the icy road.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]
Caveat: Tree #1870 “Standing aside for snow”
This tree stood aside as more snow fell over on lot 73.
[daily log: walking, 1km;]
Caveat: Tree #1869 “손병희”
This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture in July, 2009, in Seoul. The tree is behind a statue of Son Byeong-hui, a Korean religious leader, modernization advocate, and later independence activist, who died in Japanese prison in 1922.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 3hr]
Caveat: Tree #1868 “Contrast”
This tree is in stark contrast to its encvironment.
[daily log: walking, 1km;]
Caveat: Tree #1867 “Dumptrucks and rain”
This tree saw a dumptruck parked at the neighbors’ place, where Richard is doing some work moving gravel and rocks, helping prepare the spot where the neighbors’ pier is going.
The day included over an inch of rain, which, layered on top of the packed snow and ice on the road, did no favors to the driveability of the road. It was horrible – very slip-slidey.
[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 1hr]
Caveat: Tree #1866 “An additional sprinkling of snow”
This tree suggested an additional sprinkling of snow, in the morning.
But later it turned to rain. Slushtabulous.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 9hr]