Work: my cousin from the Philippines IMed me. After talking for a while, he attempted to send me pictures, but the transfers didn't work. From working on my websites the past few days, it came to me that coscolluela.com, a domain that I use but rarely update because the updating process is tedious, can be powered with Moveable Type.

It can be powered by Moveable Type very easily and content would be easily sortable into different sections (using Moveable Type Categories). I spent some lunch-hour time developing a test site. I later recruited Els to help with preparing the new website for our relatives in the Philippines to contribute to it, especially with the upcoming family trip to the Philippines. I will not be going but everyone else is and Els will be good to train them on how to use the finished site.

Mike was a fabulous little handyman and hung the clock we purchased from Bombay Company. It's a pretty big clock and weighs around 15 pounds according to Mike. It looks wonderful on our livingroom wall. In order for him to hang it, he needed to purchase a stud finder from the local hardware store. He showed it to me when I came home: it was a little plastic device that has a free-moving magnet. Using the magnet, he is able to find the nails in the stud and, oui la voila (thanks to Emily for the correction), he was able to identify the proper location to hang something really heavy from the walls. I was impressed with the little device. Another example of how high-tech doesn't mean better.

Mike also picked up some photographs from the local photo place. It's been years since I used the camera, as evidenced by some of the photographs on the developed roll. Some of the pictures are from over two years ago! But, better late than never, no?

John Cameron Mitchell (director, writer, and star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and me from two+ years ago

Some of the images are from the apple picking that we did on Saturday.

Mike picking apples. It looks posed. It is not.

Mike reaching up to grab an apple.

Looking at Mike from under an apple tree.

Mike with an apple picker moving on to the next tree.

The only good picture of me that Mike took. The other pictures are too far to notice me or have my face contorted in mid-pucker. I liked a picture I took of myself in the orchard but Mike says I don't look good because of the way I am pointing my chin down. This is just a proof-I-was-there photograph.

I took a photograph of the pumpkins on sale. I like it.

Someone did take a good picture of me: Rakshinda at the Temple of Dendur when we visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday.

In my t-shirt from the mushroom festival with my camera bag slung over my shoulder.