July 14, 2006
Short week and lots of exercise
So, on Sunday it was “Help Melody Move Day.” It seemed to go without much trouble, there were at times as many as 15 people helping. Or maybe not so much helping as being there, but at least there were enough people around for the various heavy appliances. It’s a good looking place, two bedrooms, 1 bath, nice big living room and kitchen, detached studio with it’s own kitchen and bathroom for massage use, fenced in back yard and a front yard. I’m a bit jealous. Apparently something fell on me at some point because I appear to have some bruises along one arm by my shoulder.
Today there was a company picnic, so other than two hours this morning to take care of the essentials, I had the day off.
Tom, Michelle, Dali, Eva, Soon, and Francis in the back
There was food and cotton candy and, obviously, snow cones and various games, some for the children (since it was a family event) and some not. We played some volleyball and some softball. I managed to get hit in the back with the softball, it got thrown to me after I’d turned away, I don’t think it hurt me much though, probably just a circular bruise under my shoulderblade.
I spent some time trying out my new camera, a Nikon D50 DSLR with 18-55 and 55-200mm lenses. Even without being able to use the more advanced settings yet, I think I’m doing pretty well with it. Needing to swap out lenses will take some getting used to, but I love the response time on the shutter and it takes nice pictures.
There was initially some trouble in gettng the camera of the type where if you find a listing of what a digital camera online scam looks like, that’s exactly what happened. So, I cancelled that order, and with any luck it really is cancelled, but I’ll be watching my credit card just to be sure. I ended up getting it locally due to the two lens kit not being in stock anywhere reputable online. I got pretty lucky in that they happened to have the telephoto lens, but weren’t really sure why they had it since it wasn’t the one someone had paid for and they were waiting for it to come in. So I got it. Also they were running a promotion in which I got a rebate, and a 1GB SD card, and a tripod I’ll probably never use, and a carrying case that I might, but will probably look for one a bit smaller. I seem to have spent the rebate on UV filters, but it wasn’t too bad of a price, and being able to just take it home is always a plus.
In other news, my hosting company has moved me in some way that while I can still ftp things to where I always did, there is no way to access them other than by ftp. So, I had to figure out where I have to ftp to now. And if there is a picture showing, I suceeded.
Filed under: General,I'm a geek
3 Comments
July 15th, 2006 at 11:15 am
super! how much was the camera?
and yikes on bruises. stop hurting yourself!
July 15th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
The camera was $850, after the tax and stuff, around $960. I’ll try to stop hurting myself, but it the end, I’m a single guy, it is in our nature to do stupid things and get hurt. Life would be easier if all I had to do was display my tail feathers or build a nice nest, but, alas, I’m not a bird.
July 16th, 2006 at 11:51 am
whoa, that’s a lot more than i expected!