I’m Back

We got back yesterday from our week in Mexico and I’m slowly getting into the swing of things again. This was my first major vacation since leaving Microsoft on the one stark major difference was the amount of email waiting for me. I clearly remember taking a week off at Microsoft and coming back to easily 2000 plus unread emails, this time when I powered up the phone upon clearing customs and let it sync I had maybe 180 total across my three email accounts.  Nice. Either that, or I’m a total loser now and no one wants to talk to me.

Naturally, everyone asks how was the vacation, to which I respond, “As relaxing as it can be with a 5 year old and an 18 month old.”  All-in-all, I had a good time and wouldn’t trade the time spent with my family for anything else, but it was definitely one of those vacations where you feel like you need a vacation after it.

I haven’t even thought about going through pictures yet. I did manage to shoot a roll of B&W with the film camera and filled a couple memory cards. I also have at least one shot per day for Project 365, and a bunch more to fill out my Flickr stream, so stay tuned.  One nice photo surprise was waiting on my desk when I got back:

One of my co-workers who used to do wedding photography with his father found this in his basement.  It is a Mamiya Super 23. You can’t tell from my crappy camera phone picture, but it has a 6×9 back on it that will hold either 120 or 220 film. I don’t get to keep it, but I do get to run a roll or two through it, which should be fun, especially since it seems like spring is finally arriving here in Southeast Wisconsin.

Nonetheless, I hope to be back posting Project 365 images over the next day or so, and back to posting non-photo entries as well, so stay tuned.