Gwyneth B. McGlinn

So I watched Coffee and Cigarettes finally. I had been thinking it was one I wanted to see. It turned out to be different than I expected. The first couple scenes were alright. I watched them all the way through. At some point I decided it was getting dull so I skipped ahead.

Jack Shows Meg his Tesla Coil. You’ve go to watch it. It was cute and Jack and Meg rock.

Coffee and Cigarettes on Hulu. It is rated R so you’ll have to log in. I’d recommend just starting at the beginning. If you don’t care for it jump ahead. It’s the seventh scene.

I also need to buy coffee beans. We tried to go to Zoka last week but it turned out they were having a company going away party for some girl. She wanted a Prom theme so Greenlake was packed with people in dresses and button shirts.

We ended up at the Denny’s on 148th. Turns out they have wifi now.

Watch it now while it’s free. On July 20th it goes away and you’ll have to buy it on iTunes or later on DVD.

Finally, good news on the film front. Found out about a place called Panda . Looks like they still do 120. I also have some Delta to develop. Kenmore Camera was a fail on both those.

I was planning to go to Ivey but as (bad) luck would have it they closed their film shop two days ago. The rest of Ivey got bought by someone but they didn’t want the film side. I can understand why but it is frustrating. It goes right along with Sonic Boom Records closing their Fremont location. I was primed to hit their vinyl store on J.P.’s birthday but it wasn’t there anymore. They’ve consolidated to their location that’s a couple miles away. So not a total suck.

Monday J.P. and I have our first anniversary. I didn’t know he was taking it off until Monday so I am getting off at noon. There is talk of having lunch with Ben. Hopefully I can get J.P. to swing by Ballard and I can drop off my film.

I’m getting excited for J.P.’s birthday and that we have super friends plus one who will be in town. They can see the neat gift I got J.P. We’ve done some prep work and found a good place to get coffee. It’s not the new Zoka because it’s not open as late but it’s still worthy.

The most exciting thing that’s happened recently is finishing off the pack of black and white Fuji fp3000b that I had in my polaroid camera. I’m now on to the Polaroid 669. I’ll hopefully post some new pictures soon on flickr. Next time I’ll skip to the Fuji fp100c since 669 color is so blah.

I’ve been nerding out and spending a lot of time reading Kathy Reichs books. She’s the woman who inspired the tv show Bones. I got the new Knit1 magazine but I haven’t done any knitting in a while. I’m lazy.

First ProPack Picture

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Yesterday I got film at Glazers. Two packs of Fuji FP-3000B and a twin pack of Polaroid 669. They were all out of 690 and they wanted a lot for the FP-100C.

I took this using the normal light setting without the flash. It came out dark but not too bad. I might have given it a second or two more than I should have. It takes 15 seconds and I had to pause to push start on the timer.

I’m just glad it turned out alright and I didn’t make a big mess out of it.

Polaroid ProPack

Originally uploaded by gmcglinn

The new hotness. So I got that One Step but the film is going away so I figured I needed to upgrade. I picked the ProPack because it has the flash instead of using flash cubes.

It’s a good looking camera and a real conversation piece at parties. Took it up to BC on Friday and a bunch of people took pictures of themselves holding it.

So my 10 year reunion is coming up this summer. The class has set up a *chokes* myspace page. Almost half of the class has joined. I’m currently on the list of people they’re seeking info on. I almost broke down and got a stupid account but J.P. talked me out of it. Why can’t powered by Google mean my Google signin works on myspace like it does for Linked-In? All I wanted to do was list my info and run. Guess I’ll get Marina to post it for me.

In other news I’m almost a year older and the new hottness should be coming soon. You can find out what it is when it arrives…

As you may have guessed I got a Polaroid Camera. It’s a One Step so it takes 600 film. Then I got the news that Polaroid wasn’t going to sell instant film anymore. So in a while I’ll have to retire my $1.09 camera. Until then here are some more pictures.

This was a double shot of the non-espresso variety. I guess my camera has an issue. I’m sure I didn’t accidently get 11 shots.

Original Zoka is playing Backstreet Boy. Today is a good day.