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I dropped it. a little bit.

Actually, it fell out of my coat pocket – in its so-called ‘protective’ case – onto a sidewalk. It happened the morning of ukulele night and as I stood on that sidewalk trying to deny what just happened and pleading with God to please, please turn back time a little bit for do-overs, I realized that I was hosed. That’s why the ukulele pictures turned out so crummy – the fall made the camera only focus on the top left quadrant of every picture. Dnagdnagdnagdnagdnag.

So, after a few days of berating myself and agonizing over the waste of money and plastic, I searched on the internet for a Lauren-proof model. Turns out that Olympus makes one – the 720 sw. ‘S’ for shockproof – it can withstand a fall of 5 feet (I’m 5 1/2, so I should be ok), and ‘W’ for waterproof – up to 10 feet! (I won’t be testing that feature.)

So, God bless getting a sweet eBay deal and let’s all hope and pray that I don’t mess this one up.

P.S. Do you know anyone who needs camera accessories for a Canon Powershot SD30? I have a few doubles of things – docks, cables, remotes and two useless protective cases.

Are you/ were you any good at jump rope?

Look familiar? No, it’s not the old one. Here’s the old one.

Lloyd and I both got some pretty good shocks taking that apart the night it died. (Me because I foolishly didn’t take the battery out, Lloyd because the flux capacitor for the flash discharged. It had over 30 tiny screws holding it together.)

I’m such a sheep. I don’t take good photos with it, but it turns out that I don’t take good photos with any camera. Plus, I had all the stuff for this one already, which was a good thing. This was an open-box buy (meaning it was on sale), and the package was missing a cable. See? I’m supposed to have it.

Now if I can just keep from dropping it.

On Sundays I go window-shopping while Lloyd is at choir, and today I looked at cameras. I really want something that (a) fits in my pocket, (b) has the correct-sized memory stick that will fit in my laptop, and (3) charges by plugging a cable into the camera, not by removing the battery. I went to Circuit City, Best Buy, and Target for the initial look and figured that Lloyd would come along after choir for more intense scrutiny.

Well, we had an unexpectedly delightful dinner invitation to dine with Curt and the Pesters, so I said, “Let’s just go quickly to Target and buy that FujiFilm one that’s on sale. If I don’t like it we can return it.” So, the camera was purchased, inspected in the car, and it turns out that you have to remove the battery to charge it. Boo. So, Lloyd will return this and I’ll keep searching.

The other thing I bought was a mini-tripod!! I am so returning the huge one from Best Buy, because this little guy is all I need! (And it was only $3.99 at SterlingTek. It’s so cute!)

It fits in your pocket, and it’s so gadget-y!

Item purchased, got to the Lied on time, sat down with co-workers to watch Richard Louv speak on getting kids outside, for cryin’ out loud. It was an awesome presentation, and if you’d like a snippet of it, read this. (Zip down to the paragraph that starts ‘Even without corroberating evidence…’ I love how it ends.) Anyway, afterwards there was a Q & A that we didn’t stay for. I wanted to run to Sam’s to get some groceries.

Sam’s was closed by the time I got there so I ran into the HyVee next door. As I paid for my groceries, I realized that my camera wasn’t in my purse. The last time I had it was when I took a picture of all those people in the Lied, and ……. NOOOOOOO!!!!!! My camera was in the theater!!!!!!!!!

I was far away, so I called Lloyd, who thankfully was still in Lincoln due to Bad Movie Night, and asked him to go over there and tell them I was coming. He did, God bless him, but they told him that they couldn’t let him in, and that we should call in the morning to see if the cleaning crew found it. NOOOOO!!!!! I drove like mad to get there, burst inside and tried all the Girl Charm I could muster. I begged the man at the door to let me in. He was hesitant, but could see that I was desperate. His supervisor let me in, and was a little surprised that I wasn’t too proud to crawl around on the ground looking for it. (We didn’t have assigned seats.) It was there! It was there!! I kept saying, “Thank you, God! Thank you, God! Thank you, God!” Then I looked at his shocked face and said, “Thank you, too… (looking at his name tag) David!” He laughed and said, “I’m glad when things turn out like this. You just made my night.” I would have kissed him, but that would have been inappropriate.

So here – enjoy this photo!

It’s not the most expensive one they sell at Best Buy, but it’s not the cheapest, either.  I really meant to make a movie involving getting it out of the box and setting it up, but I didn’t. (Maybe later.)  Instead, you can guess which one I bought.  Sorry for this unexciting post on a dreary Saturday.  I’m off to make pancakes.

 

So here are some of the photos from yesterday’s long day at school!  Here’s Lloyd putting cables into some roofing vent stuff to keep the room looking  non-cabley.

Here’s me in right-side-up, non-back-hurting mode.

And while this in not our handiwork, this is a picture my Dad sent of his computer.  It must be where I get my skills.  I especially like the sledgehammer.  Go, Dad!

(It died a while ago.  He needed to mess with it so it would stay on long enough to get some data off of it.)

Then that cute little camera that she got for Christmas just stopped working. It was in the middle of one of Lauren’s frequent photo sessions. Instead of the lens popping out it beeped and said “e18″. There was some misunderstanding here as well as to the nature of the problem that made Lauren think I wasn’t listening to her, when I really just didn’t understand her. I thought I was doing what she wanted, but I wasn’t. This is not the first time that this has happened.

Lauren looked around on the Internet, and “e18″ is fairly common. I’m off school tomorrow, which means that I’ll go in anyway and do some of the computer stuff that I can’t do when there are students and teachers all over the place, and I’ll try to return it to Circuit City. Lauren isn’t happy.

Then, to add insult to injury, while Lauren was soaking the the tub, trying to find some relief for her aching back, she asked me if I would write a post about her worst day ever. I said I would, but ,when she got down here, I was reading a book instead. Needless to say, I got that look that said, “I hurt my back slaving away helping you all day –on the weekend, I might add– and, when I ask you to do one little thing for me, you just blow it off and read your stupid book.” I’d seen that look before, so I knew that I was in trouble. So, I’m going to have to cut this post short, as I’ve got some serious sucking up to do.

At least we weren’t trapped in Lincoln.