Partial Print

Slept in, vaccine hangover. Photo work—image ready to print, ran out of ink mid-print, ordered more. File copying for hours. Signed up for Aria's TinyBeans. Greenhouse Coffee + Plants—good service, tolerable vegan options, terrible Saturday parking, archaic metered system. Replied to Bob on Nate Hagen's deadly sins—sixth is anthropocentrism, seventh contradicts it. Dennis on contrasting epistemologies. Planning Friday shoot—window light portraits, composite overlays. Repository reorganization. Storm, backyard tree survived. Beautiful partial print. Tim at Suds, party that wasn't happening. Finished Brazil, Greatest Controversies, part of Star Trek.

Recovery and Progress

October 26, 2025

Slept in a bit, primarily due to the vaccine hangover. That whole-body fatigue from immune response makes itself known—not debilitating but definitely not conducive to early rising or ambitious plans.

Worked on photos once functional. Set up file copying to run for several hours. The ongoing photo repository reorganization continues—moving files around to create more scalable and sustainable structure. The kind of work that happens in the background while you do other things.

Signed up for Aria's TinyBeans. Another way to stay connected with friends' kids—Aria is Katja's new daughter. See updates, share in their growing up even from a distance.

Went to Greenhouse Coffee + Plants. The people and service there were good. The environment is good—plants everywhere, pleasant atmosphere. The vegan choices are tolerable, which is about as much as you can ask. Going there on a Saturday morning is a bad idea though. There's no parking due to the Saturday Market taking over downtown. Paid parking is available, but Corvallis' metered parking system is straight out of the last century. Who carries change anymore? The infrastructure hasn't caught up to how people actually pay for things now.

Squeezed in a reply to Bob regarding Nate Hagen's seven deadly sins. His sixth sin is anthropocentrism—treating humans as the center of everything, ignoring our place within larger ecological systems. I agree with this. Except his seventh sin basically says to be anthropocentric—prioritizing human concerns and human survival. There's some work to be done there. The contradiction needs resolution or at least acknowledgment. You can't simultaneously argue against anthropocentrism and for it without explaining how those positions reconcile.

Responded to Dennis on the topic of contrasting epistemologies. Different ways of knowing, different frameworks for understanding what constitutes knowledge and how we validate it. The kind of discussion that matters more than it seems—epistemology shapes everything else, determines what we count as true, what we dismiss as irrelevant.

Made a little more progress on planning the shoot for this coming Friday with Floofie. General themes are close cropped contemplative window light portraits and some composite overlays. I need to think a bit more about the overlay objectives—what I'm trying to achieve, what story or effect the composites should create. Having themes is good; having clear execution plans is better.

Came home and worked on reorganizing my photo repository. Marveled at the storm that was happening during that time—rain and wind, dramatic weather. The tree in my backyard seems to have survived it. Trees are remarkably resilient until suddenly they're not—you watch them weather storm after storm, then one day something gives and they come down. This time everything held.

One of my images that I tried to print

Got one image ready to print, started the process, then ran out of ink partway through. I could have continued the print but I didn't have any replacement ink on hand. The partial print is very nice though—sometimes limitations create interesting results. The image cut off mid-composition has its own aesthetic, even if unintended. Ordered more ink—it'll arrive in a few days and I can try again. Sometimes running out of supplies mid-project creates accidental art.

Needed to get out of the house later. The day had been productive but mostly solitary, working on technical tasks, responding to emails, planning future projects. Met Tim at Suds for good conversation—the kind that ranges across topics, nothing earth-shattering but genuinely engaging. We tried to go to a party afterwards but when we arrived it didn't seem to be happening. Sometimes plans dissolve and you just go home.

Came home, finished Brazil—the second half of the film I'd started the night before. Still dark, still uncomfortable, still brilliant. Watched Greatest Controversies—continuing the series on early Christianity, adding more evidence that traditional claims about texts and theology don't hold up to examination. Watched part of Star Trek before deciding sleep was more appealing than finishing the episode.

The day was recovery and incremental progress. Not ambitious plans or major accomplishments, just functioning at reduced capacity due to vaccine reaction while still moving projects forward. Photo repository getting more organized. Prints attempted, even if incomplete. Future shoot being planned. Conversations with Bob and Dennis on substantive topics. Time with Tim providing social connection. The storm demonstrating nature's power without causing damage.

The vaccine hangover dominated the day's energy level, setting the pace and limiting ambition. But work still happened—just slower, more deliberate, with more breaks. Sometimes that's the right pace anyway. Not every day can be high energy and maximum productivity. Some days are about maintaining momentum while recovering, making small progress while your immune system does its job.

The partial print stands as metaphor: incomplete but still valuable, limitation creating its own kind of beauty, proof that running out of resources mid-project doesn't necessarily mean failure. Sometimes you work with what you have, appreciate what emerges, and order more supplies for next time.