Why didn’t anyone tell me…

I generally survive the week on 5 hours sleep. Well, it caught up to me. I spent the weekend with a very minor headcold the could probably be written off to allergies. The wind was howling, the air turned dry, but the rain the previous week could be generating mold. There’s just no telling. Either way, I got two naps a day on Saturday and Sunday (babies are great napping accessories, btw).

One advantage was that I was home and during my waking hours I was able to get to the photos marked “Edit”. I corrected about 600 white balance issues, some low-degree rotation fixes, converted some really bad color screwups to B/W, and took that off my todo list. I’m about a year of pictures away from being current, and I’m looking forward to the bus ride tomorrow, where I’ll probably get most of that done. I’m still in my ratings run. I also did a small number of mosaic-panoramas taken before I had my panorama head. Some turned out much better than previous attempts to stitch; the change in panoramic stitching software over the years is quite visible.

I did try doing month-to-month rating instead of full-year, and I’m not sold on either. The month-to-month effort interrupts me too often, but I can tell clearly where I left off. I think for the remainder I’ll go back to yearlong rating.