Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Sorry about yesterday
I was a zombie. For some reason I couldn't sleep when I went to bed Sunday night, even though it was 4 am (about an hour later than usual). I managed to suck in enough caffeine to keep going through the day Monday, but my brain was totally off the clock. So I went to bed REALLY early last night (10:30 pm) and stayed there until 9:30 today. I feel MUCH better!
Another good thing about today was that Mike was back in school after two weeks of holiday. He was actually glad to go, in a way, because he wanted to show off his NASCAR jacket. Unfortunately he came home quite upset because he found out his best friend is moving away to Seattle. There's so little a mom can do about things like this. They HAD been drifting apart a little, and it could be the friendship wasn't going to last anyway. But ripping off the band-aid hurts as much as pulling it slowly. It's just a different kind of hurt.
OK, how about something more upbeat? My new camera came yesterday! The old one is four years old, and getting hinky. Some type of loose wire it's apparently prone to. I can still bonk it or boot it while hooked up to the computer and make it go, when need be, and so it is going to be our Semi-faithful Back-up Camera.
BUT when I go to blog the streets and parties of the Democratic National Convention next August, I need a RELIABLE one. (And oh yeah for my business too....) So now I have the New Kid:
He is a Canon PowerShot S5IS, with 8 megapixels and a 12x zoom, plus the ability to swap on fancy lenses if I want!
In the pic above, he is posing with my laptop, who is showing a screen from Dave Barry's blog. That's the masterful political reporting style to which I aspire, so it seemed like a good choice. (Is it wrong to take a pic of the new fancy camera with the old one he's replacing? Oooh, angst!)
One more thing, for funsies. HERE is a quiz where you try to name a celebrity from a picture of said celeb as a kid. As I told you yesterday, I'm not too hip with the pop culture -- I got less than half right. And I would probably not do TOO much better naming the celebs from a current pic of themselves. But maybe you will find it fun, and you will almost certainly score higher than I did!
Another good thing about today was that Mike was back in school after two weeks of holiday. He was actually glad to go, in a way, because he wanted to show off his NASCAR jacket. Unfortunately he came home quite upset because he found out his best friend is moving away to Seattle. There's so little a mom can do about things like this. They HAD been drifting apart a little, and it could be the friendship wasn't going to last anyway. But ripping off the band-aid hurts as much as pulling it slowly. It's just a different kind of hurt.
OK, how about something more upbeat? My new camera came yesterday! The old one is four years old, and getting hinky. Some type of loose wire it's apparently prone to. I can still bonk it or boot it while hooked up to the computer and make it go, when need be, and so it is going to be our Semi-faithful Back-up Camera.
BUT when I go to blog the streets and parties of the Democratic National Convention next August, I need a RELIABLE one. (And oh yeah for my business too....) So now I have the New Kid:
He is a Canon PowerShot S5IS, with 8 megapixels and a 12x zoom, plus the ability to swap on fancy lenses if I want!
In the pic above, he is posing with my laptop, who is showing a screen from Dave Barry's blog. That's the masterful political reporting style to which I aspire, so it seemed like a good choice. (Is it wrong to take a pic of the new fancy camera with the old one he's replacing? Oooh, angst!)
One more thing, for funsies. HERE is a quiz where you try to name a celebrity from a picture of said celeb as a kid. As I told you yesterday, I'm not too hip with the pop culture -- I got less than half right. And I would probably not do TOO much better naming the celebs from a current pic of themselves. But maybe you will find it fun, and you will almost certainly score higher than I did!
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