Finally, some work.

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It is warming.  Perhaps too much.  I may have to push to get ac's installed.  Electrical is still in the works.  Then tankless water heaters.  Then I'll have to get a fresh quote on heating and ac.  So... this fall or next spring?  Maybe.

Still, the warmth is easier to manage than the cold.  I sleep better, in the cool and cold.  But waking becomes a serious problem.  And, yes, working is easier in the warm to even hot temps.  Up to a point.  Too hot and I can't sleep.  At 75 F up here, sleeping is becoming a bit difficult.  Not impossible yet.  But I will need that ac, for reasonable sleep, before it hits 80.

Not a lot of work, so far, yet.  One small grouping of areas, clothes baskets, floor spaces policed, the beginning of organization.  Maybe more yet tonight.  Definitely more tomorrow night.  It'll take a few weeks, even if I can speed things up.  Won't be able to work every day, but every other?  And, maybe, up to several hour sessions, give or take.

As well, I am working with the camera.  You don't just... know.  I bought a manual.  Not to memorize.  That is akin to memorizing a cookbook or dictionary, thesaurus.  The wrong way for reference material.  No, for when I see something new, or forgotten, in a video.  To see the term, in writing.  To look up more details on the function, skill, system.

As well, I am not just learning with my eyes and ears.  But also practicing with the camera and lenses.  It definitely reminds me of playing an instrument.  Fingerings, learned over time, produce... something that didn't exist?  Or something that... wasn't... enumerated, not in the form it became from what had been shortly before.

Initially I couldn't get anything to turn out.  Too dark up here.  Auto isn't truly auto, as one might think... on this camera.  After a bit, I figured out how to get it to pull in enough light, then how to focus better, and a few minor tricks as to framing shots.

Still, it seems like I forget everything after a rest or sleep, if those can be twelve to twenty hours before I get back to it.  And through pain.  Though, too?  I really need to obtain training courses.  Awaiting an apple device.  Then I'll pick from some of the options I have been previewing.  Trying to learn from snippets of various topics, from various presenters, almost randomly, is nearly schizophrenic.

A single, or several, full lesson... then possibly supplementals...  Viewed, reviewed, learned, mastered.  With settings stated and arranged at the start, over and over for days, or weeks, as required.  Muscle memory, rote but with functional understanding, ingrained until simple static photographs are cake, in nearly any light.  Then learning to brace and shoot, by hand and on a tripod, the latter then used to sort extended time, bracketed, and a few other such techniques  Then to move on to moving subjects.  The cats, dog, birds, closer then further.

How long will it take?  I can't be certain.  I also have jobs here at the house, my room to clean, exhaustion and pain to negotiate.  Sleep eating me up.  Still, I am hoping to master the camera by fall.  The basics.  Then figure out... what to do with it after that.  Also reminds me of a rubics cube.

Yes, but a few more things, in the room, tonight.  Then rest, or sleep... whatever is possible.  Good night.