Oh, well. Just be glad you're not this neurotic!
First up, is a pic of the Fullerton El station house, all wrapped up in black metal bands and ready to move! In the course of the upgrading the Brown Line they decided that the old station houses were "historic" enough to save, but too small to actually use, so they're being moved around ... in the case of the Fullerton and Belmont station houses, they're scheduled to go right across the street from where they had been, to serve as concession spaces.
I took this shot about a week ago, but have since noticed that the station house is now "parked" about a block north in an empty lot, awaiting the construction at Fullerton to get to the point where they can put it where it's going to be. I guess it's nice that they're at least making the effort to preserve something while converting over to nice new (and ADA-compliant) stations.
It was cool to finally meet Mark, as he'd been living pretty much right around the corner from me for several years, but our schedules had never quite been in synch to run into each other (he was chasing Rush St. "bimbonics" while I was chasing around after my toddlers!). Of course now that he's married and has a kid of his own, he's moved out of the neighborhood, but I guess he's still more-or-less downtown. With any luck I'll have a chance to grab a cup of coffee with him sometime and get a copy of the "booklet" he was handing out after the show ... I had a very tired 7-year-old on my hands, so we opted to not try to work our way through the crowd that had gathered at the stage.
Anyway, that's all I snagged tonight. I wish that more of my Looptopia shots had come out, but most were either blurry from shooting without the flash, or washed out from shooting with the flash. I'm very frustrated that the last two or three years of photos I've shot have looked crappy because I just can't get the sort of shots I want from these dang digital cameras!