“Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave in a well preserved body – but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit! What a ride!’”
Month: March 2010
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Camera Gear…
The camera I’ll be using for a bit arrived yesterday.
I’ve had a rather large collection of cameras over the years that I’ve used for these sorts of off-road photo-shoots. By and large the sealed, ruggedized, ‘point and shoot’ types have been the best and of those, any camera that can completely retract the lens into the body is even better. Of course these types of cameras come with certain drawbacks, such as poor apertures and a fairly narrow range of ‘zoom’ – but I’m more of a scenery photographer so there’s usually plenty of light, and I drive a Jeep so I don’t really need a 500mm lens to get up close to my subject. 🙂
So, with this in mind I picked up a new Cannon SD1400 IS: 14.1 million pixels, image stabilized, an f2.5 wide angle, about 1×10^32 widgits and gizmos I’ll never use, and it’s entirely made of metal.
It’s also roughly 3/4 the size of my cell phone – so it’s easy to pack, and probably just as easy to lose. 🙂
So, while the weather isn’t ‘awesome’ today, I’m planning on heading up-mountain for the day, meeting up with some friends at the “Rib Crib” in Evergreen for lunch, and testing things out a bit.
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Update…
About four weeks ago I paid off the PT Cruiser, got the title for it, and dropped about $1300 on new stereo gear and sound deadening in the interior!
And about three weeks ago I was involved in a car accident where the PT Cruiser was totalled by a lady in a red Jaguar who was in way too much of a hurry… I was pulling out of my complex here to make a left across Quincy (two lanes each direction with a median between them), and the traffic in the near lane had backed up at the light to make the right like they always do, but they left a break for me – so I pulled out.
Just as I did said Jag-Lady gets mad at the delay and floors it out of the right turn line in into the second lane to fly past the little people and then wedge back in at the light to make the right – and accelerates into the driver’s side front wheel on the PT at about 50mph.
This bounces my head off of the door frame and tweaks my neck pretty bad, and I end up at the hospital to get checked out. This is where the cop gives me my traffic ticket for ‘taking the right of way’ and a court summons.
Long story short they determine it’s her fault because she accelerated into my car (no skid marks) and told the officer that she was going to make the right at the light – from the left-hand lane… So it became pretty obvious what happened.
Anyway, I’m not at fault but I’m also not going to get anything from the insurance – so I sold the PT for parts, sold the Warwagon to a guy from Texas who showed up with a trailer, loaded it, and left me with a fist full of cash, and used that for the down payment on a bright red soft-top 2010 Jeep Wrangler “Rubicon”.
My second “new” car.