Latest Happenings

Been pretty busy, hence the lack of updates lately, but everything is for a good cause.  On the geek side of things, I’ve been reloading the operating system with the 32 bit version of windows vista rather than the 64.   I lose a bit of performance, especially in the memory area, but at least a lot more of my applications will install now.   I’m still pissed at Microsoft for the lack of 1st party support for their own 64 bit operating system though.   The rest of the hatred goes out to the software developers who write software that refuses to install in a 64 bit environment.   Well, at least the reload has allowed me to build some redundancy into the system.

On other fronts, I’ve been concentrating on expanding some of the photography hardware, creating strategies for building more credit history (for those that don’t know, I typically just save up for what I want and just buy it, which is good that I have absolutely NO debt, but I don’t have a credit history either), and working on dropping some pounds.

But speaking of photography, I’m finally going to get my hands on the Canon 40D slr camera.  I’ve been shooting with a digital rebel for the longest, and it’s about time that I’ve started stepping up when it comes to the features that I’m now wanting in a camera.  Although my trusty Rebel will still be by my side, the 40d is going to get the majority of the work.  Especially in sports and low light photography.  Ordered in another lens that I’ll be using for portraits as well.  A Canon 85mm 1.8 to be exact.   And if the budget permits and stays on track, I’ll be able to get some lighting equipment in later on this month.   We’ll see how that goes.  Fall season is here, so that means football, and fall portraits. 

Speaking of photography, I’ve agreed to once again shoot my company’s annual party for the employees this month as well as the fundraiser for the Jellybean conspiracy foundation.  For those of you not familiar with the Jellybean conspiracy, here is the link to their website

http://www.jellybeanconspiracy.org/

I got involved with these guys by accident, but I volunteer my photography resources to shoot the fundraiser as well as the occasional play.   Sort of my feel good thing to do in order to offset my evilness.

On a side note, I was reading Jason’s blog and came across this little snippet when he was talking about the issue of finding a good man.

DON’T shake the box! Sometimes when you get a gift you shake the box to see what’s inside. If it sounds like something you want to keep then you open it. If it sounds like crap you give it to your little sister. The thing is that most things that are best for you in life sound like crap when you first shake the box. Or, they will be wrapped in a way that makes them less attractive to you. But, looking inside is what really matters. And that goes for people as well. When you look inside a person and you see the goodness there you realize what you have. But, most people are too busy shaking boxes and moving on to the next guy because so-n-so doesn’t have rims on his car, doesn’t wear expensive cologne or clothes, isn’t 6′+ and have a set of shark white, straight teeth..

I would suggest reading the rest of this entry as far as the finding a man bit.  Good practical advice, but it was the shaking the box portion that I took special notice in.  Many times I have noticed that good men are passed up because they don’t dance well enough, don’t dress flashy enough, etc…