sick

You know when you're uncontrollably sneezing pot stickers into your hands, eyes watering and nose running, you've hit rock bottom.

The Girls Your Mother Warned You About

Lessons learned from Flood Flag Football:

1) never trust a friend on the other team - they tackle you before you have a chance to catch the touchdown pass when they know they can get away with it (see below)

2) Advil, Advil, Advil - you can't just go around diving at people full force after the age of 21 and expect to not feel like you're in the geriatrics ward the next day

3) always have a secret weapon; i.e. friend of a friend who shows up out of nowhere, in our case, Holly

4) even if you're not killing the other team, at least make sure you look good; i.e. that "Girls your mother warned you about look"

5) teamwork spelled backwards is krowmaet, and you just never know when you'll have to bust out with that lingo

Damn the Man

Yes, let me begin by saying: yay to the analog, long live the film, and just say no to the digital Man taking over True art.

Now that I've gotten that out of the way - the Canon 20D rocks! Don't get me wrong, I still have my EOS Elan, I'm never giving it up (unless there was a choice between giving up my right to eat meat and wear jeans or give over the camera . . .). There's just something beautiful about 8.2 megapixels, five frames per second, 0.2 second start-up time, changing the film speed at the push of a button, the ability to take hundreds of pictures and only develop the ones you want, and the capability to fit any of my lenses. Oh man, I'm drooling just thinking about it. Unfortunately, although I've taken hundreds of pictures, I haven't taken five minutes to sit down and publish any of these. Hopefully when the alleged photoblog gets up and running, it will be easier to be on top of things. For now, I need to figure out how to actually load the pics onto either of my computers without a drive falling apart or the blue screen of death coming up. I know what you're going to say - "See, it's the digital!" (Pete, who plays his guitar in OB and only subscribes to "Damn the Man" sort of thinking, would have said this.) But you are wrong, my friend. It's the computers' conspiracy against my mental well being, and I'm on my way to overcome!

Oh the places we'll go . . .

One of them being the Apple store in Pioneer Place in downtown Portland.

Some others will be:
*A villa in Spain
*Yellowstone
*Hungary
*White water rafting
*Thailand
*Australia
*A mountain in Telluride
*A pub in Ireland
*Carnegie Hall
*Taking pictures in Africa
*In the midst of a live studio audience
*Whistler
*A contributor in a book
*Yankee Stadium
*Lost in a foreign country
*Jumping out of a plane
*On the water in Italy
*Digging my feet in warm ocean water
*And I will not eat green eggs and ham

Density

"I'm . . . your density.

I mean . . . your destiny."

~George McFly

Big Southern Hair

Yes, that's right, Erin. Right here in San Diego. They must be migrating. I believe the BSH score is now 11 - 12. I'm catching up . . .

Nancy and I

I knew a guy in second grade who had the name Bogey.

They should have named him Mulligan.

You had a dog named Mulligan?

No, they should have named the kid Mulligan.

But that doesn’t make any sense.

Neither does naming your kid Bogey.

His name wasn’t Bogey, his dog’s was!

bestpricecameras.com sucks

I write this purely so you will not fall into the trap of seeing bright shiny objects, i.e. cheap cameras, and buying impulsively. My Canon D20 dream child flashed it's sparkling $899 eyes at me and my naivete got the best of me. Of course saving $300 would be nice so of course I bought it, not unlike you would purchase a pack of gum in the supermarket check-out line (not a method I would endorse with thousand dollar purchases). I didn't learn until I called to see how long shipping would take that the price didn't include the price of the battery and charger (why would I assume it wouldn't? that's like assuming you have to buy your t.v. cord separately!). So after 14 minutes of holding to Christmas music, I finally got through to someone who said they would e-mail a cancellation number proving my credit card wouldn't be charged. When I never received the e-mail, I called back five hours later and was yelled at by this same person:

"You don't need an e-mail! Your credit card isn't getting charged! Don't worry about it!" [in Napoleon Dynamite voice, really]

Well, that's what I get for assuming. Survey says for bestpricecameras.com: two big thumbs down (and that's not just because I have big thumbs).

Recommendations:

B&H Photo
Camera World

Thanks to Mom for walking over to Camera World and purchasing the beauty, tax free.