#49: New Article, A Day at the Beach and a Night at Bingo & Goya Theft Update.

Yesterday folks in Columbia, Missouri were treated to this newspaper article about our project in the Columbia Daily Tribune. The woman who wrote the article, Annie Nelson, was really fun to speak with and Nina and I are growing increasingly comfortable with our role as interviewees. Columbia is definitely another one of those towns we probably wouldn't have considered on our own without this project but, after some investigation, seems like it could be a really nice place for us to live. Since the article ran yesterday, they've racked up about 750 votes--not bad!

The only odd thing about this piece for us was looking at the photo they ran with the story, which looks like it had some out-of-the-box Photoshop filter applied. As a result, the whites seem to have gotten blown out which somehow simultaneously make Nina look a little bald (she isn't) and made my facial scruff very high contrast. We were pretty entertained by the subtle alteration, especially since it took us a while to figure out that something had indeed changed. Subtle is the word though, this was definitely no Couric.

Yesterday Nina and I had a fun day with my brother Michael at the beach. Afterwards, we spent the evening--three hours plus--playing bingo with a bunch of elderly Jewish ladies (and one man). It was a lot of fun even though we ended up not getting to shout out that magic word during any of the 25 games. I was impressed at how relatively high-tech the bingo world has gotten: handheld, wireless devices, CCTV, all of the information boards, etc.

Finally, if you read our post the other day about the stolen Goya painting that was nicked en route to the Guggenheim Museum, you'll be happy to know it has since been recovered by the FBI. Apparently, it was taken from the transport truck somewhere in Pennsylvania... no word yet on whether those wild outlaw Penn-Dutch folk were involved.

xoxox
Danny