Hello! Just popping in to say I'm here, and getting my behind kicked by a few deadlines. Not really the deadlines per se, all the technical equipment required to complete the jobs. Here's a photo my daughter snapped of me Friday. This is where I was most of the day, a desk in the family room where I often blog from, or use my computer at when it needs to be charged.
Anyway, here's the desk last Friday without me there. Not that it looks much differnt right now. At this point, I'm still behind, but 2 deadlines down and one to go. The joy on my face can be attributed to the fun technical (camera and computer) issues I was enjoying at the moment. My computer started acting oddly, then warned me that my startup drive was almost full. I discovered that I had used all but 4GB of the 249GB on my laptop. NOT a good idea, thus the odd computer behavior of late. But wait, before this, I discovered that my camera (a Canon Rebel that I've had -and loved- for over 5 years) was the problem I'd been having lately with photos, not the lens as I had thought. So I did some research (and mostly relied on the advice of my two brothers who are avid, amateur photographers) and decided to bite the bullet and order a new camera (a Canon 7D). At this point, in the photo, the camera had arrived, but I wasn't sure about it yet. I'm still not. I haven't used it much, due to the computer problems, but at first take I felt like I may have bit off more than I needed to chew. It's a lot heavier than the Rebel, and I will certainly need to read the manual (hate that). My brothers assure me I will love it and it will serve me well for a very long time. I'm betting they are right, I just don't relish the learning curve as I would with any hand made endeavor. Looking at the photo, you can see the computer (being backed up to an external hard drive), boxes for hard drives, cameras, lenses, the old camera, a tripod and a basket of journals shoved underneath. In general, an unorganized mess. After backing up the computer to two external hard drives (as my brother insisted), I started deleting photos to make room. Much more to go, and a new way of operating as well, (photos stored externally), but just when I'd gotten far enough to move onto learning the camera, I started feeling sick. Just a cold, but late Saturday night my fever spiked at 103. No one else in the family has had anything, I think I was given their share. ;) Which brings me to today. Back to healthy, back to learning the camera, and back to the deadlines. I'll be back to fun blogging soon, but I just thought I'd show you the ugly stuff too, there's plenty of it here, just like most everywhere, I just usually try to keep the focus on creating. But hey, this is part of the creating too, just not the pretty, (or for me, fun) part.
