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energeticTopic: Happy Kat!
I got a new Digital Camera. I was looking at the Fuji Finepix ultra zoom (but secretly wishing for the Canon Powershot Ultra Zoom) The Fuji was far less expensive, the Canon I really wanted was over 500$ at Best Buy. So we went off to the mall and checked out WalMart. The fuji was 50$ less than at Best Buy. We then went to Radio Shack, now called The Source. (where's Darkseid when you need him?) They were discontinuing the Canon powershot and it was clearance priced, almost 200$ less than Best Buy.
Needless to say, I am now the very happy owner of a Canon PowerShot Ultrazoom. This camera does everything! And then some. it has special modes for shooting sunsets, beaches, fireworks -you can adjust the aperture, shutter speed, ISO -it has both manual and auto focus -macro and super macro -and it will automatically stitch together ultra wide angle panoramic pictures. I can set the picture size to 4x6 8x10 or 12x16 so I'm not posting huge 14MB photos on my blog. The 4x6 is nice because I can put almost a thousand pictures on the memory card. 8x10 is best because you get more detail when shrunk down to 4x6, and I can still take almost 500 pictures. Now I am in the process of registering the camera and installing the image viewer printer. This camera comes with yet ~*ANOTHER*~ image editing program. sigh. I have four already, but this one is *integrated* with the actual camera itself!
Also, Ben has been moaning about his old MP3 player. The database updater was freezing and it was filled with all sorts of crap files and folders. I told him to go to the hardware website and search for help. He didn't, it was all hopeless and he needed a new one, an RCA like his last one. So we got him a new RCA MP3 player and he gave me his old defective one. So I went to the hardware website. I checked the KB for the freeze issue. i followed the instructions, updated the firmware, ran the disk check and disk repair utility, and then changed the USB mode as instructed and reset the player. TA DAA! all the crap is gone, the known database bug is gone and it's now got a clean and tidy list of songs. Later today I will put my music on it and get rid of Ben's stuff.
Now Dave and Ben are off getting Ben a new health card. Ben is lacking one piece of ID, a credit card or student card or some piece of plastic with a signature. The world is really stacked against anyone who doesn't have a driver's licence, credit card and three other forms of photo ID. But to get the proper ID cards you need at least three pieces of photo ID, but you can't get the cards unless you have photo ID but to get the ID you need to have them already. You know what was funny/sad? A hospital administrator giving a mom a hard time because her 2 year old no longer looked like the newborn on her photo health card.
Let Dave deal with that nightmare, I spent enough time over the years with stupid ignorant bureaucrats while the kids were in school.
So the camera software is installed, the camera is registered with Canon and now I can spend the next two hours learning how to use all the cool features of the camera. I'm sure that at first everything will be done on "auto" but I hope to be able to soon use all the special features.
And here's my first picture, this is the spider I'm looking after for the summer, Rachel the Spider. She resides in our dining room on a cabinet where we usually place the sugar and salt and extra placemats.
The picture isn't the greatest, I was attempting to use the macro for the first time and I set the flash wrong and the ISO wrong.
Oh yes, There is now a Coach store in Fairview mall. If I ever feel the need to spend minimum 300$ on a wallet or minimum 500+ on a purse I now know where to go. As nice as they are, I find them horrifyingly overpriced. After the sticker shock of 350$ for a wallet and 650 for a clutch bag, the camera seemed like a bargain.
So that's all for today. Ben read what i wrote and now he wants his old MP3 player back and I can have the new one. Tough tits, kid. four day until we leave for the beach! Later
