Relief from US Election or Covid stress

Time to not get out (homemade plywood and cardboard 4x5’s don’t do well in the rain) but just got more developer and fix that need mixing and I can cut and load paper negatives. And, the rain will stop eventually.
 
I voted several weeks ago.

Am volunteering to help with polls here in SE no-where. The turnout in the several rural SE Iowa polls is larger than it's ever been.

I think I'm too old. I've been worrying about things I can fix, the other stuff I do what I can and move on.

I too am looking for a place, but with more usable space and less storage. I've given up on the dream of having a wet DarkRoom again. Right now I'm thinking digital for my old 35mm stuff and MF or LF for film. Got the LF set, need to think about MF.

I've been helping some friends out with local races. Our TV adds are too inexpensive to not have the airwaves totally consumed. No beer, viagra, lawyer commercials until way late at night.

All Good.

B2 (;-Vote!!
 
In relation to the vastness of the universe, I sometimes think of this illustration to put things in perspective when things get a little crazy. The sun will come up tomorrow and the birds will still be singing (somewhere... ) :)

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I bet he didn't vote for the local dog-catcher. Cute pup!
 
Calzone said:
KoFe,

Presently I live in a 650 square foot one bedroom apartment in Madhattan. Kinda like a rat in a cage.

Looking forward to having a darkroom. No more changing bag for me. LOL. I will print-print and print again.

The only uncertainty left over is do I make it to age 64 and retire or does another lockdown occur and I get sent home early. My wish (call me a delusional artist) is that they offer me a "package" to retire early and on top of that they give me a "bridge" of health care coverage till I'm 65 when Medicare kicks in.

Anyways it looks like they are setting me up to retire early. Last lockdown I got paid leave for 2 1/2-3 months. This won't happen again. They already are in austerity to cover losses from the last lockdown. In January I'll be 63.

I dream of my castle like home. In a Calzone manner somehow I got a free complete building lot (40x100) that I call my "Back-Backyard" to annoy people.

I have a full basement and a second basement that is under the front porch. How annoying is that?

Only have one next door neighbor. On the rear of the property is state land that includes a brook that drains a 1500 acre preserve that is about 4 blocks from the baby Victorian built in 1912. Corner lot and on a dead end. The view from one rear bedroom looks like some place in rural England.

Happy-happy.

Cal
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Good plans always comes true!

Every time I read about early retirements and Medicare I want to play GCL again and again. Where I'm my only hope is to be able to work just as long as my father did (from where we left for better life). They let him go at 79. Overwise we are not going to be able to live in house here. Huge taxes, maintenance costs and next to nothing, below minimum wage pensions after been ripped off by taxes and next to zero returns on services, health and education before retirement.
I hope USA romance with democrats wouldn't grow into our liberals total control disaster. Well, it is growing paradise here for government (public) sector and apparatchiks.

650 sqf is 60 sqm. Which is luxury living in Moscow still.
Our Moscow apartment is 24 sqm. 240 sqf. While 300 sqf is very common size for two parents, one child apartment.
People were printing in the bathrooms of those. It is toilet, sink and bath with one person standing space. I still print in similar size bathroom...
 
Ko.Fe. said:
Good plans always comes true!

Every time I read about early retirements and Medicare I want to play GCL again and again. Where I'm my only hope is to be able to work just as long as my father did (from where we left for better life). They let him go at 79. Overwise we are not going to be able to live in house here. Huge taxes, maintenance costs and next to nothing, below minimum wage pensions after been ripped off by taxes and next to zero returns on services, health and education before retirement.
I hope USA romance with democrats wouldn't grow into our liberals total control disaster. Well, it is growing paradise here for government (public) sector and apparatchiks.

650 sqf is 60 sqm. Which is luxury living in Moscow still.
Our Moscow apartment is 24 sqm. 240 sqf. While 300 sqf is very common size for two parents, one child apartment.
People were printing in the bathrooms of those. It is toilet, sink and bath with one person standing space. I still print in similar size bathroom...
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KoFe,

My dad was an E-liter-it E-LEE-gal immigrant. He knew a brutal life. He jumped ship in New York Harbor in the late 1920's during the time of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1885.

While I knew poverty, I also know that I am lucky. They say only about 30% of Americans have enough money to retire.

I am also blessed because I am a skinny bitch with no health issues. In fact my biological age is 39 even though I'm almost 63. My expected life expectancy is 106.

My dad who had such a brutal life lived to 94.

Cal
 
Calzone said:
KoFe,

My dad was an E-liter-it E-LEE-gal immigrant. He knew a brutal life. He jumped ship in New York Harbor in the late 1920's during the time of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1885.

While I knew poverty, I also know that I am lucky. They say only about 30% of Americans have enough money to retire.

I am also blessed because I am a skinny bitch with no health issues. In fact my biological age is 39 even though I'm almost 63. My expected life expectancy is 106.

My dad who had such a brutal life lived to 94.

Cal
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106? what did you do ....have your telomeres' measured? Have the growth rings on your teeth counted?

I bet you have been taking vitamins!
 
My county is a vote by mail county so I voted nearly a month ago. I've been going out with camera for the entirety of the pandemic. There is no reason to stay locked up in your house/apartment. We've taken car trips around the area, so long as one stays away from other people and uses proper protection and distancing if you can't avoid them you are safe as can be. One of the most "hazardous" places to go is the grocery store, kinda hard to avoid. I've been retired for 18 years, there's not been a big disruption of my routine.
 
Calzone said:
KoFe,

My dad was an E-liter-it E-LEE-gal immigrant. He knew a brutal life. He jumped ship in New York Harbor in the late 1920's during the time of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1885.

While I knew poverty, I also know that I am lucky. They say only about 30% of Americans have enough money to retire.

I am also blessed because I am a skinny bitch with no health issues. In fact my biological age is 39 even though I'm almost 63. My expected life expectancy is 106.

My dad who had such a brutal life lived to 94.

Cal
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I've known a fair number of Holocaust survivors, although most gone now but at ripe old age. Survivorship bias I guess or maybe just stubborn to live.
 
rhl-oregon said:
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Very nice. It has an M. C. Escher quality to it - at my very first glance, for a fraction of a second, it looked like a portal floating in water or floating in the sky.

But you've noticed and captured this image wonderfully. Good use of light and dark, foreground and background. If possible, it may be fun to return to that spot and try for various other angles.

Anyway, nicely done!
 
Congratulations Cal! This will be quite a change but I bet you love it. I always pictured you as a NYC guy.

How does one calculate his biological age?



Calzone said:
KoFe,

My dad was an E-liter-it E-LEE-gal immigrant. He knew a brutal life. He jumped ship in New York Harbor in the late 1920's during the time of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1885.

While I knew poverty, I also know that I am lucky. They say only about 30% of Americans have enough money to retire.

I am also blessed because I am a skinny bitch with no health issues. In fact my biological age is 39 even though I'm almost 63. My expected life expectancy is 106.

My dad who had such a brutal life lived to 94.

Cal
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