AKA Round things I saw while walking around.
It’s the wife’s birthday, which circles back every year. This week we were making loops around the Phoenix Art Museum and a mall at the Biltmore.
And it occurs to me how much human beings like round things like Mickey Mouse’s ears and scoops of ice cream and shiny pennies. Well, maybe now the idea of Bitcoin, but be careful because it’s made up and what goes around comes around. It’s only valuable because it’s rare? Yet it has no intrinsic purpose and wastes energy…. so anyway, I took some pictures.
Yeah, there’s the self-reflective longer pointing the mirror at himself (ironic self-aware reference to the previous paragraph).
And here’s an astonished oil and vinegar emoticon from dinner to finish things off!
—–David
P.S. Obscure trivia: today’s post title is a song from the musical “Carnival” which I performed in while in high school, and I did a solo of this song on vocals and button accordion. It was and perhaps still is the only song I ever learned on button accordion, although I now own a small one and that could change it anytime.
P.P.S. Sometimes I hate WordPress, or my host, or both (they are partners in crime to steal my time.) This should have been a simple fun post, but my phone refused to upload two photos and they showed up as several corrupt icons after repeated attempts, wouldn’t copy over easily from a Google Photos sideload on the iPad instead, and resulted in a post published just to get the pictures into the WordPress media library for use in the existing draft (it was a clever trick, I created the post from inside Google Photos on the iPad by attaching the two photos and launching inside WordPress, but then there was only a Publish button and not a save as draft option. What kind of coding crap is that?)
And Then! WordPress refused to crop the self-portrait image after several attempts and methods — If I have to edit a photo offline, don’t pretend I can edit it inside WordPress when I had to work so hard to get it in there in the first place! Now suddenly wondering if this is because I turned a cache plugin on, though I sometimes have to turn it off because it brings the site down during other site edits….
Ah, the circle of life.
Also published on Medium.
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