```yaml title: Sunday Night Emoji Club link: sunday-night-emoji-club published_date: 2024-11-04 05:27 tags: restored ``` --- The reality that surrounds me has Sunday residing at the end of the week, despite its popular positioning as Number One on the calendar, that is to say on the far left. I go along with societies expectations in this way. The same way I never tried to make people understand how tomorrow wasn't until I woke up back in the graveyard years. Regardless, when I find myself reflecting back on the week, that sensation is the strongest on Sunday Night. It has always been a point of mine to specifically work on the weekends, because there is no real benefit to me whatsoever to be anywhere in a public space during those times. People everywhere. Volume to the max. Sensory overload. All those eyes. When you're off on Tuesdays or Thursdays or my favorite day of the entire week, Monday, the entire world is yours. So here we are then, Sunday Night bullet club. I've got my writing totems on, lets get it. 🦃 Turkeys have arrived at the store. You know what that means: ***Here it comes.*** The holiday season has officially begun. Before you know it, this year will be in the books. Not sure how I feel about all of that. I do know that I can't wait for the election to be over so the politicians can go back to doing their thing and treating us all like the tax-paying peasants we are. It's odd you know, people are the most ungrateful during Thanksgiving and the most kind during the Christmas season and over New Years. It doesn't last long so you really got to take it for what its worth. Soon as the realities of New Years Resolutions start to take hold we are immediately demoted to worthless peasants who are the reason customers' days are as terrible as they are. We are the ones who set the prices, for the sole purpose of making every one's day a bad one. Then tax season comes and people get really cheap, but right around the returns flood back into the economy, the weather starts to perk up and the whole Summer Madness cycle continues once again. This week however, we are focused on setting up temporary residencies for the several thousand pounds of turkeys that are incoming. Everyone in the department will have the strongest arms on the planet in two months. Free gym memberships. Wash, Rinse, Repeat. 🥾 New work **shoes** are on the way. I have been wearing boots at work for almost twenty years. They are carbon fiber so it's not like I'm disregarding safety, but in so many different types of ways my body is getting really old and simultaneously tired of carrying around heavy ass boots. I downgraded to 6-inch boots last year, but the difference is barely noticeable. 📷 You know for someone who has been revolving their entire existence for the last 18 months around photography, it is truly a kick in the nuts to think that I have taken less photographs this year than I did in October of 2023. Now, typically when I find myself in a situation like this where I'm trying to figure out how something went down — it's like this big mystery that is impossible to solve. This is not the case this time. The reason my camera has been off for a majority of the year, is because of the serious life changes I have gone thru this year. That is to say, my relationship with Christina and having her move in with me. But it is more than just that. 💸 When I got back behind the lens, there were professional ambitions attached to those actions and just like my infatuation with all things computers, when the idea of money being attached to it starts to exist, I flee the scene like a murder has just been committed. I don't know what the hell that says about me as a person, but I can't help but somehow relate this to how many people have told me over the years that I would be great at "selling this" or "selling that" when that reality of selling anything puts me off like nothing else. Perhaps that says something more meaningful about the world, or society or myself that I fully can't wrap my head around. That being said, I have decided to let go of the domain: **WilliamParker.Photography**. The reality is actually quite simple aside from the letting go of professional ambitions: the URL was too damn long. I might forward my SmugMug to **WilliamParker.xyz** but I am undecided on the techy side of decision making as of right now. 🖼 When I look back at the twenty-years of digital photos that I have taken over the years, it's not the quality of the images, the sharpness of the images, the exposure settings or the saturation of colors. It's the feelings that are invoked when I view these images. Like what to blog about, I have struggled so much trying to find my "photographic voice" when the reality is what I do enjoy taking photographs and viewing later has been right in front of me this entire time, life itself. I am so deeply inspired by the [photo-centric blogs of JCProbably](https://notes.jeddacp.com/crafting-a-photo-centric-bear-blog-with-embedded-posts/). I want to strive to do something very much in the same spirit as they are, sharing images that I care about personally, not ones that I think are just purely visually nice to look at. This is a huge priority of mine, that is to say, getting back into it the way I am supposed to. Christina seems to have finally loosened up a bit about her (that is to say, her face) being my default shooting subject. She was having a nice rest on the couch the other day and I took several pictures of her closed eyes but then said something funny and captured the evolving looks on her face as she broke into laughter. Those photos bring a smile to my face. This is how I know I am on the right path. 🎒 For reasons of safety during the move, I have had all my camera gear in the closet to avoid being kicked around while we shuffled around our belongings and tried to setup a new living space. Over the weekend however, we pulled everything out, gave everything a nice look over, and charged up all the batteries and got my 35mm attached to my primary camera, whichnow has residency sitting on my desk not too far of a reach from my cup of coffee. We missed October Gold this year, but that will only make next years that much better now wont it? I might take Christina for a drive thru the Holy Hill area just so she can get a little looksie as to how beautiful things can be there. And with that, another week begins tomorrow. Ⅲ --- # Links of the week - [Bearming Add-ons | Robert Birming](https://birming.com/bearming-add-ons/) - [Crafting a Photo-Centric Bear Blog with Embedded Posts | Notes by JCProbably](https://notes.jeddacp.com/crafting-a-photo-centric-bear-blog-with-embedded-posts/) - ⭐️ [On a Clean Slate | Brandon's Journal](https://brandons-journal.com/on-a-clean-slate/) - [Guestbooks](https://guestbooks.meadow.cafe/) - [recentfm.js](https://recentfm.rknight.me/) - [Dried Flower Centerpiece 10314 | The Botanical Collection | LEGO](https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/dried-flower-centrepiece-10314) - [Super Mario World™: Mario & Yoshi 71438 | LEGO](https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/super-mario-world-mario-yoshi-71438#fromHistory)