...is that I can photograph one with the other. In your latest news, I bought a new digital camera last week, and picked it up from the campus post office today. I am very pleased with this addition to my technological possessions! It's a Fujifilm FinePix S1500, 12x zoom, 10 megapixels, viewfinder, lots of settings (including a manual where I can set both the aperture AND the shutter speed!), and powered by regular batteries.

1. I really don't mind getting up at five-fifty-five when it means that I get to witness such beautiful things as I saw last week . Or the fog that I saw this morning. 2. I really really wish I had a nicer camera. Or that I could get these things in sharper focus with my current camera. Alas. 3. Tripods fit in a backpack if they are cheap & small enough. 4. Don't rely on your camera battery. Mine died unexpectedly this morning, when I was half a mile away on my bike trying to shoot fog photos. 5. And... computers are quite finicky and uncooperative at the most inconvenient times.

I went to the dentist yesterday (in between spurts at the church blood drive where I was volunteering). First time in one and a half years. I need to floss more. Got a gigabyte thumb drive on sale yesterday too (on my way home from picking up the van from the shop, in between spurts at the blood drive). Works great. Now maybe I'll have more MBs available on my computer of five gigs... well, only about three or two gigs when you consider that it had Windows 2000 on it, then I installed Windows XP. That all takes up quite a bit of hard disk space. I'll use it mostly to store photos from my digital camera. And to transfer files whenever I need to - since I have no CD-RW drive, and may not have one till I get a new laptop in one or two years (I haven't decided yet). What is the feasibility of living without a CD-RW drive for two years at college? Consider the digital camera factor as well as the thumb-drive addition. Oh - is it "disk" or "disc" when d...

I finally used my digital camera for something I thought about putting on here.... And I finally uploaded the pictures... SO here is a picture of my church's new sanctuary!! Ain't it niiice? The red flag on the right is the AWANA flag, if you're not familiar with the program. The projection screen is hidden up behind that triangle on the back wall. And those two black-sheep chairs are there because they have arms, which are helpful for a couple nice elderly folks. And speaking of photos... I missed a photo album last time. I have six large ones, not five... three, four, six, yeah that's right. (Read: three that are huge, one that is good and large, plus two that are medium large, add up to six.)

...from my new (to me) laptop. No kidding. This guy at church asked my brother to fix his TV - a simple matter really - and when we dropped it back at his house, he came out with this little black box and said he had an extra one lying around so I might as well have it! Apparently his son used to type his college papers on it. He also gave us some speakers, but that wasn't a surprise. As I said two days ago, when I put it in the car to go home: YIPPPPPPEEEEEEE!!!! So now I've installed XP (or rather, my brother installed it and I bothered him a bit while he did), installed the stuff that came with my camera, and borrowed an internet thingy temporarily. (Only sporadically, and only till I get my own internet card thing.) This keyboard thing is a little difficult to get used to - I'm forever looking for the "end" key in the wrong spot - and the mousepad is a whole new ball game. I keep messing up with it, but I am getting better, I promise. :-) This is so muc...

Yup, I went and bought it! It was really cheap... and I used a gift card to buy a 512MB xD picture card, also on sale. As far as the camera goes, I think they were just trying to get rid of old stock to make way for the new. If a camera this nice is sold at a hundred bucks, wouldn't you begin to suspect some such reason? But I had no intention of getting "the latest model", mostly because I can get a camera just as good (or better) for much less. So, you may be able to see a few things in the next few weeks, once I figure this little thing out... such a teeny little thing... it looks like a garage door opener, only a tiny bit bigger and heavier...

I may well be getting my first digital camera .