The Outside World Is Scary

[abracanabra]

Phil has declared firmly that he will not be leaving the house today. He says I can't make him. Well, I choose not to try...I don't like seeing grown men (or women, for that matter) weep. Why is he not leaving the house? Well, overall, that went badly for him yesterday, so he's declining to repeat the experiment. Despite the wonderful time at Leora's b-day party yesterday and the fun hanging out with people at Cahoots, all was outweighed by him accidentally damaging a parked car and having to deal with figuring out what to do about the repairs, the insurance, etc.

Sadly, this means that going to the Japanese lantern-lighting ceremony isn't something feasible for me. The bus commute is *way* too much a pain in the ass for me to think about right now. Besides, it'll be horribly crowded anyways. I probably wouldn't get any good photographs. (Hey, sour grapes is some comfort!)

Time to grab my manual camera and walk around the neighborhood taking photographs for half an hour or so.