Wednesday evening: Time just rolls along.

1. Welcome to niniae.

2. OK, Hillary Clinton is secretary of state. I can haz new senator nao pleze?

Edit: I am apparently not going to get who I want. Caroline Kennedy has dropped her bid.

3. Interesting weekend plans. Avenue Q Friday night, thanks to gwenlianna, and King's & Queen's Bardic Saturday.

4. But first, we have our second big Community Conversation in Lake George for ACT ForYouth tomorrow night. I hope it goes as well as the first one. I am not nearly as stressed as I was the last time. I hope that's a good thing.

5. OK, shadesong wins.

I feel pretty good about getting people to dive into cold water with me for Special Olympics.

But she dove out of an airplane to raise funds for Speaking Out Against Rape, and she has convinced her girlfriend Spooky to do the same thing. Here's the link.

6. We have been talking a lot about photography. The New York Times Magazine has done an amazing series of portraits of important people in the Obama White House. There are a lot of young people.

Red, all I could think of looking at it was how these folks would fit in their West Wing roles.

7. Today's quote of from Days of Thunder, a great NASCAR movie.

"We messed up big time on Sunday. I had sponsors in thew stands and I'm huggin' and holdin' hands and kissin'em in the ears and prayin' for a good showin'. And what do we do? We end up lookin' like a monkey fuckin' a football out there. Everybody out, PLEASE."

More on photography . . .

A couple of things:

Thank you for your kind comments.

Please be clear that I get *a lot* more positive comments than anything else.

People rarely complain about me making them look bad in photos, and when they do, I do not sweat it. I take them down if asked.

I won't stop taking photos.

This has also inspired me to think about getting a lens to better shoot court.

So, photo gurus:

What would be best?

I know a 50mm f/1.8 lens has been mentioned, as well as short zoom with image stabilization.