Basic bat-head

Once it because apparent that paying my taxes wasn’t going to pauperize me, I made a small investment in a new digital camera. My old one (a Canon PowerShot A10) was bulky and heavy enough that I carried it in my bag when I carried it at all, which was enough of a barrier to casual use that I hardly ever used it. The new one, a Canon PowerShot SD200, is about a third the old one’s size, small and light enough that it rides comfortably in my pocket. Good-sized monitor too.

In other news, Ground has closed. The owner sold it, and the new owner has sold off the old furniture and is redoing the whole place. It’ll be a café, which I assume means it’ll sell coffee, but whether it’ll have cheap coffee, as well as comfy seats and wi-fi, only time will tell.

Meanwhile I’ve been doing my local hanging out at Basic, up on Erie and 8th, near the hospital. The food and drinks are good, but the seats are all hard, and it tends to be loud. Not conducive to long sketch sessions. I need a new place to sling my ass while I draw.

The reason my camera and Basic show up in the same post is this odd bit of art hanging on the side of a building right near Basic:

( Weird bat-head mandalla )