09/21/2006: "Why I need a digital camera"

I know I promised a superhuman effort to show you pictures today. There was, in fact, a superhuman effort. An effort. I remembered to take the pictures, which was the extent of my effort. Clap for me.

However, you can't see those pictures until later. That's where the effort ends, abruptly and through no fault of my own (honest!). See, we had our windows replaced. How can having the windows replaced lead to me not being able to show you the pictures? Well, when the guys come to replace your windows, they need three feet of room in front of every window. (This is what they told me. I wasn't actually here at any time during window replacement. I was at work. I went to work in the morning and our house had crappy aluminum single paned windows and then I returned from work in the afternoon and we had gorgeous white-framed, quiet dual-paned windows. It was like the Window Elves came! I love the Window Elves! I only wish that, when they came, they didn't want thousands of dollars but they did a lovely job and I adore the windows and I never had to watch the Elves work, which is good because watching any contractors, Elven or otherwise, makes me nervous, so yay, Window Elves!)

ANYWAY.

The required three feet of space meant that Dave's office had to be dismantled because his computer is right in front of the window. Dave owns the digital camera, which he needs for work. The card reader for the camera is attached to his computer. When I want a digital picture I have to go through his briefcase, get the camera, use the camera, boot his computer (if he's not using it. If he is using it - like say, for work - I have to wait until he's all done which could happen at 3 am. Honest to God), pull the pictures off his camera, put them on our shared drive, go to my computer and move the pictures onto the website. Then I can post a blog entry about the pictures.

This, as you can imagine, falls apart completely when Dave's computer isn't put together.

It also falls apart in any number of spectactular ways. It causes problems, as I mentioned, when Dave's working on his computer. You can't just rush in and demand that a man who is working to put food on the table stop whatever he's doing and download the picture you just took of a k2tog that looks wonky. It's not the right thing to do. The whole plan also falls down dead the minute that Dave takes the camera to a job site. Furthermore, it doesn't go down at all well when I forget to put the SD card back in the digital camera and Dave takes the camera to a job site several hours away from home and - whoops! - can't take a picture that he needs (I mention again) FOR HIS JOB.

No that doesn't go down well at all.

Thus, clearly, I need my own camera. I think it's the obvious solution. And oh! Whaddaya know? Next Sunday's my birthday.

Imagine that.

(In an effort to not seem completely obvious, I will now change the subject.)

I do have OLD pictures, which you have not seen yet, which makes them new to you. That's ok with you right? I mean, if you want NEW new pictures... well, you wouldn't know the difference if I hadn't just told you right?

I should shut up now.

Here is some nifty spinning I did a while back. It was practice spinning and also practice dying, as you might be able to discern from the bowl and packets of Kool-Aid on the counter. I have an appalling amount of Kool-Aid stashed away now, because it went on sale and I went cuckoo-bananas buying it. I spun several skeins averaging about 140 yards each (Lord do I need a yarn meter... oooooh! Christmas list!). I dyed some of the practice spinning apple green, and some cherry red and it all turned out fairly well.

But, in true cliffhanger style, I'm going to wait to show you the pictures until tomorrow. You expected that, right?

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09/21/2006: "Why I need a digital camera"