It's been a perfect storm of work, which is a good thing since it paid for tickets to Los Angeles. I finished up one project and am trying to finish up the second but my customer seems to have fallen off the face of the earth. I hope he shows up soon so I can finish that job. Friday Zoe and I fly down to Los Angeles. Orange County, actually. Zoe is going down to the California office of Clear Passage Therapies for some deep body work, primarily for her carpal tunnel but also a touch up from the work they did on her in Florida in February. I will be going down with her to help her get set up and will fly back Sunday night. This will be the first time we have been on a trip together. Zoe's excited about going to an ocean beach where you can actually go in the water. You can go in the water around here in Puget Sound, or the ocean on the Washington coast, but our water is really cold and hypothermia sets in way to soon to have much fun. I'm looking forward to it.

In addition to web work I added new straps to gordy's camera straps

The thumbscrew I used for my tripod mount straps was easy to turn but was large and in the way. A customer suggested using round head and socket head cap screws.

It was a great idea but I had to reshoot all the tripod mount pictures and redo the tripod mount wrist strap page.

I've also ordered the parts to make a macro studio. It's a version of one seen at the Strobist. I will be making it out of PVC pipe and connectors. My local Ace Hardware didn't have all the connectors I needed so I ordered them from Simplified Building Concepts. When they come in I will get some 1/2" pvc pipe from Ace. My photographer friend Don gave me some great white plastic sheets for diffusion material. They are the heavy white plastic used to make trash compactor bags. Next week's project while Zoe is gone. Now to see if I can get some of the piles of links posted.