Work was slow and I took the opportunity to get the fuck out of dodge. With nothing to do besides listen to Stern and feed my fat fucking face, I decided that I would do some work on my webcam. There are plenty of tutorials out there that instruct a user how to convert the webcam into something which can be used to take astronomical photos.
Here's what I used for the project. A Quickcam 3000, teeny screwdrivers, a sacrificial film cannister and lots of scotch tape. After I unscrewed the only screw, the cam's housing came apart easily and I unscrewed the lens from its location above the charge coupled device (CCD). Unfortunately a housing I bought for two bucks didn't work with my webcam.
When I cut the bottom off the film cannister, that didn't fit the hole that used to hold the lens. I could kinda fit the business end of the cannister over a slight, raised ridge but it needs lots of tape to hold it in place. A little further research showed me that I need a UWAL-F adapter. Now all the photography shops in Colorado Springs are closed and my jerry-rigged adapter isn't fitting flush against the diagonal mirror piece.
I am absent minded and I kept misplacing things around the apartment. I think I have everything back in its place or where I can easily find it. Yet I still have a nagging feeling that something's missing and it's missing in a really stupid place like the freezer.
Dad started talking to me, whining about how he doesn't want me to leave the country. He made some good arguments like I don't know Italian, most likely they'll resent me for taking their jobs and I'll be six thousand miles away rather than 1700 miles away.
I had made my decision, tickets have already been bought and itineraries had been set in stone. There was nothing I could do because I couldn't change my mind much in the same way I couldn't change my mind back in July of 2001. Now I couldn't find raddidge. I ran around the airport terminal looking for her, hoping she was already there and just meandering about in her own special way. If we missed the flight on Sunday then we'd never be able to leave the country.
raddidge was nowhere to be found. I couldn't leave without her. The rest of the dream was just a series of maps from various eras in human society with those animated lines travelling across the globe.
