The Gloom Report

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The week lived up to my estimation of suck. HB had a visit with the vet this morning and, well, his days are numbered and few. It is somewhat bizarre when you start to discuss the process of putting a pet, a member of the family, a friend you've had for 13 years since he was a pup, 'to sleep'. I was relieved to know that the procedure shares much in common with the human kevorkian protocol as there are three stages instead of the vision I had of them going right for the injection in the arm which HB would be utterly traumatised over since the last time anyone got near his arm with a needle for a blood sample, he flinched and it took 2 weeks of daily visits and cookies to get him to allow the same again. So, I'm in a bit of a darker mood than I was at the beginning of the week and haven't been answering my email much either.

And, aside from the gloom report, there's a cool photo exhibit and camera sale over at my favourite Leica shop on Uudenmaankatu, EP-Kamera. Ukko Heikkinen's lovely photos taken around Helsinki with a Lubitel 166 camera are on display M[12-18]-Th[11-17] and EP is and has been selling a stock of Russian cameras, mostly FEDs as I recall, for 25 euro per kilo, yes you read that correctly, kilo. I don't need any more cameras so someone should go buy them all soon before I do something rash.