Haven't had much time to work on PISS recently, as I've been on two vacations and bought a new house in the last month. Needless to say, my life has been kind of insane, and will probably stay that way until I get everything moved into the new house and settle in. Assuming that ever happens.
I have my doubts.
The vacations were nice. The first was to the Mammoth Caves down in Kentucky. I had never even heard of the place until a few months ago when we decided to plan a trip there with some highschool friends. The caves themselves were very neat, but I think the best parts were seeing the ancient cave man (literally) drawings and petrified poop. I took a fair bit of pictures, but low-light environments (i.e., caves) and compact point-and-shoot cameras don't mix well at all. I like my tiny little camera- it has served me well in a lot of situations and is small enough to easily justify taking on backpacking trips, but christ, I don't think I've ever longed for a nice D90 as much as I did there.
The second trip was a backpacking trip back to Isle Royal. I love that place- it's about as close to wilderness as you can get around here and very beautiful. My camera actually took some decent pictures (at least I think so, I'm only a fledgling camera buff) so I'll be uploading some of the better photographs to flickr or something similar soonish. I received way too many bug bites and hiked over 50 miles while carrying over 40lbs of gear on my back. Yes, this is what I call fun.
As far as the house goes, it's way too fucking huge for two people. I'm not looking forward to cleaning it or keeping it heated in the winter. I would post photographs of it, but frankly I'm embarrassed by how goddamned huge it is. I'll be heading over to wire the whole thing in cat6 tonight. I expect that will be a learning experience for me, since I have never ran wire through finished walls before.