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Been a busy weekend

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This weekend was supposed to be that quiet weekend that you take to yourself to relax and recover.

Hah.

Saturday I spent most of the morning working on php for various websites including this one, and then we went out shopping. I got a new camera (more on that in the coming weeks I’m sure) which is almost embarassing in its power. Our old camera, a 2.1 megapixel that takes compact flash cards was bought as a Christmas present to each other in 2000 and cost us $500. I don’t even want to talk about what the 128MB card cost. It’s been incredibly reliable until about a year ago when the shutter button started to stick, and now it gets stuck autofocusing and you can burn through a set of 4 AA batteries in about 13 pictures. When I had tons of problems over vacation with it I knew it was time for a replacement. When I couldn’t even take pictures for some upcoming comics without fighting with it for a half hour about two weeks ago I knew it was time to put an end to that nonsense.

The new camera is a 7.1 megapixel camera that takes some damn small card thingie that’s a 512MB card that cost like $30, and the camera itself – an Olympus – is noticably smaller and lighter than the old one. It cost $150. I could cry.

top: old bessie. bottom: the cute new girl in town.

After buying the camera (and a bag of video games, mmmm video games) we went out to dinner with our friends Mike and Steen and little Juliana, who is just a doll. Stayed up way too late playing video games and then went to bed exhausted.

Got up late this morning and then worked on unimportant stuff, went food shopping, came home and put everything away in time to go to my parents’ for dinner (they had a roast beef that was too big for 4 people) and that’s when I tried out the new camera, which is awesome. Came home and did laundry, cleaned the kitchen, and prepared for work tomorrow and now it’s midnight and I’m typing this and I should be in bed.

Tomorrow: work and maybe some comic drawing, then maybe I’ll get to bed early too. Goodnight!

Where does the time go?

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Someone asked me the other day what I do when I say I didn’t do anything a given weekend or evening. Well, there’s…

  • writing or drawing the comic
  • working on the Online Comics Day 2007 site
  • working on this site
  • reading comics
  • reading books about drawing comics
  • knitting
  • playing Final Fantasy 12
  • cursing at the laptop because it froze up
  • taking walks with my husband
  • date night
  • playing Final Fantasy 3
  • reading my email
  • hanging out on the forum
  • playing with the pudge dog
  • playing Solitare Til Dawn
  • watching Nighthawk play Oblivion
  • baseball!
  • and I’m sure a bunch of other stuff I’ve forgotten.

So my apologies that I haven’t been around much… some of this stuff will be dropping off the list as I either finish it or lose interest again. The comic and the blog aren’t going away, just sometimes I get quiet.

I broke the elliptical trainer again.

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Six minutes into my workout it started this massive grinding noise and now when I use it on a resistance level of 1 it feels like a resistance level of 5. I’m not that good.

The last time this happened, in February of ’06, it took me well over two months to get someone to actually come out to the house and fix it, including multiple very heated calls with the customer support center. That was when it was under warranty and the repair was free.

I don’t know that I’m up for that challenge a second time.

So essentially, we’ve owned it for 20 months and it cost around $1000.00. So it cost me about $50 a month to have the thing here, which isn’t all that bad, even if we didn’t use it as much as we should have. Compare that to spending $50 a month for two people to not go to the gym, and it’s a pretty good deal.

Am I annoyed? Damn straight. But if I get rid of it, I can either a) replace it with something better or b) regain a significant chunk of my livingroom. Both are very tempting offers.

Now the question becomes how the hell I get rid of it. Whee.