A Lethargic Week

2012-03-24Us Standard

This past week, all of us but Finnur have fallen ill.  Anna took the first shift, waking up warm on Monday, and then spending ALL of Tuesday sleeping (‘Can I go on the computer?’, ‘Yes’, ‘zzzzzz….’) before being mostly herself again on Wednesday.  As she was getting better, I succumbed, and spent Wednesday afternoon until mid-Thursday feeling very low on energy and slightly nauseous.  Then on Friday it was Bjarki’s turn, and he slept for most of Friday, and now almost all of Saturday.

This is how we've spent this Saturday: In bed. I figured Bjarki would rest easier if I were close by, because he'd be less curious about what various family members were up to. This photo was taken using the 'front-facing' camera on my phone. It's pretty crappy!

Bjarki lying on a big pillow in bed, feeling pretty miserable. Ironically, he was jealous of Anna earlier this week, because she got to stay home (and enjoy the computer), so he also wanted to be sick. Now that he's really sick though, he's been wishing he wasn't... Funny how things don't look the same once one's experienced them first-hand, eh? 🙂 (This is from the 'proper' phone camera, but the focus was off. Oh well...)

Ironically, this was a week where I needed to be at work quite a bit, so it’s actually been Finnur that’s been home with the kids, but managing to work a bit nonetheless because he is a champion.  He’s hoping he keeps managing to avoid this pestilence!

COMMENTS

Rajan P. Parrikar

No, the first image is actually very good. Take out the colour noise (keep the luminescence noise) and it’ll be even better.

Hrefna

Hmmm… I imagine ‘taking out the color noise’ would require something more sophisticated than Picasa, which is about as advanced as I’m willing to go these days – although I could probably just make the whole thing into gray-tones.

Rajan P. Parrikar

You’ll need Photoshop or Lightroom for taking out (or adding) noise. Conversion to grayscale will work fine. You can drop an S-curve on it to really bring out the shadow contrast. (I don’t know if Picasa has a parametric editor, but even basic editors should have a Contrast slider.)