First Time's a Charm

Scaled quail, in case you were wondering.

Not an amazing shot. I probably need a better camera. Or better skills, more likely. It's not like I'm not taking several shots and picking the best one. Really, I am.

What's funny is: usually my first one is the best.

I use the wizards on the camera, which I love. I almost always start with "Landscape" which serves me well. I love "Available Light," too. Which we used almost exclusively during Christmas in Scotland.

Remember how in school the ubiquitous "they" would always tell us to check over our test answers at the end. This was supposed to be good test-taking technique. Save some time for the end and review your answers. Thing was, when I changed my answers, I invariably changed them wrong. My first instinct was almost always correct. It got so that, by college, it was a near superstition for me never to change my first answer. I wouldn't even look, so I couldn't be tempted.

I've never see the show, but that whole "is that your final answer?" thing gives me the heebie jeebies. My first answer is my final answer. For nearly anything. I'm decisive like that. If it's a bad decision, I'll do what it takes to fix it. But indecision? Makes my skin crawl.

So how about that manuscript I'm revising?

Yeah. About that.

It's not the same. And I don't know why. Revising isn't all that hard for me either. (Right, well, once I got over myself, that is.) Maybe because it's a whole 'nother round of decision making.

Good.

Good.

Good.

Wow - great!

Good.

Ack - must go!

It's Duck, Duck, Goose all over again. Only I get to be the one walking the circle, tapping heads, controlling who may sit and who must desperately run.

Hmm... a theme emerges.

I'm tweaking the themes in Obsidian. Thinking a lot about love, power and control.

Who makes the decisions has the power. Thus the game goes to the quick and the ruthless.

Is that your final answer?