High definition plaid

Workers have been assembling a multi-screen contraption outside of my office this week.

I'm not sure what it does... but my guess, based on the number of squares on the screens, is that we're going to start broadcasting in high definition plaid.

Now broadcasting in high definition plaid.
It matches the floor.

Shoot at Saguaro Surgical

We had an out of studio shoot early this morning at Saguaro Surgical.

They can now do surgeries in their office from stripping varicose veins to fixing circulation issues. I showed up to do my producer duties and shot a few photos.

Medical places always make me uncomfortable but since I wasn't a patient, it was fine. And, the staff there is super nice.

Here's a behind the scenes look at making TV magic:

Shooting a stand up in the lobby

Chatting with the doctors
in the surgical suite

Shooting video of the equipment
in the surgical suite.
That big white round thing on the right
puts out some sort of radiation.
I'll bet it makes popcorn super fast.

Shooting the video monitors used
during surgical procedures.

Examination area

Outside of Saguaro Surgical.
The giant saguaro outside is a
clue to it's name.

Toilet bowl cleaner in the washing machine

Anthony and I spent our Sunday evening on our usual excursion: Dinner and grocery shopping.

Dinner was at Boston Market at Grant and Tanque Verde. In an unusual moment, we ate in a semi-busy restaurant. Often when we eat out on Sundays we're alone in the dining room of the restaurant we choose. It took the staff a really long time to bring out two Chicken Carver sandwiches (25 minutes) but they were delicious as always. While we were waiting, we watched a guy fill up a soda who we were pretty sure had Tourette's Syndrome, and a woman walk out after finding out it would take fifteen minutes to cook her meatloaf. Basically, we got some free entertainment out of the deal.

Grocery shopping was at Walmart Neighborhood Market at Broadway and Camino Seco. It was an uneventful shopping trip... although I did shoot a few of the usual product photos I take when I go to the store with Anthony.

The hilarious moment of the night occurred once we got home. I was attempting to finish my laundry for the week and accidentally squirted toilet bowl cleaner into the washing machine. It comes in the same style squirt bottle as toilet bowl cleaner and I didn't look carefully enough when I took it out of the cupboard. As I usually manage to do, I disrupted Anthony's carefully orchestrated laundry effort for the week because now all he'll think about is that the washer is now clean enough to poop in.

Boston Market at Grant and Tanque Verde
We ate in a restaurant with other people.
How exciting!

Anthony's "I'm gonna cut a bitch" face.
It's also his "O" face and his
"I won the lottery" face.

The Chicken Carver sandwich that
took 25 minutes to make
at Boston Market.

I'm glad we didn't eat at McDonald's next door.
It was under attack from a dinosaur!



This shelf isn't very valuable.
It's only one carrot!

Sun-rise individually wrapped pancakes.
Microwaveable in 15 seconds!
Brilliant!

Maple Bacon cookies.
The bacon craze may have gone too far.

Betty Crocker Candy Corn Cookie Mix
I wanted to try this...
but, I'd have to like, bake and stuff.

Sneaky photo of Anthony:
He looks like he's chewing out
the ice cream freezer section.

Starburst Strawberry Sorbet Bar
If you look up the definition of sweet
in the dictionary, this has to be there.

Drumstick Peppermint Variety cones
Minty ice cream rules.

O.J. only has 4 weeks to live?!
Devastation.

Ken Carr Photo Art: October sunset

I shot this photo of tonight's sunset looking west from my bedroom balcony.

I thought the wisp of cloud, building, and tree in the shot made it look kind of artsy.  More artsy than the photos I've shot of Lucky pooping.

October sunset in Tucson
as seen from my bedroom balcony.

Simon leaves puddles

This summer's (and now fall) weather has been unusual. The really unusual part has been the rains we've received thanks to "remnants" of Pacific hurricanes Norbert, Odile, and Simon.

Norbert caused flooding in Tucson and especially in Phoenix, we were supposed to get a historic rain event thanks to Odile but that storm turned east about 60 miles south of Tucson, and Simon gave us some surprise rain.

I have rarely seen standing water in the ditches along the west side of Ridgepointe but there was some on Thursday. You have to remember that I live in the desert and seeing standing water anywhere besides my bathtub or in a swimming pool is a bit of an event.

Fortunately, the puddles didn't stay long enough for mosquitos to share any West Nile virus, ebola, SARS, or bird flu.

Puddle in a ditch on the
west side of Ridgepointe
thanks to Hurricane Simon
on Thursday morning.

Puddle in the Ridgepointe parking lot.
That man on the right
braved walking across the wet surface.
Fortunately a swift water rescue wasn't required.

This puddle was still around after I got
home from work on Thursday.