I saved this to tell you today because I had other stuff to talk about yesterday. And this was another thing that happened on Thursday.
The UPS man stopped by and dropped off three packages. I didn't see them all...at first. What I saw was the Beast sneaking towards the garage with a package from a well-known camera store that I am VERY acquainted with from previous years. I yelled at him to come back but he acted like he didn't hear me. I went to the inside garage door and saw him put the package on his work bench and head back to the front of the house. At that, I opened the door, went down the three steps and grabbed the box then headed back into the house. I heard the Beast yell from behind me to *bring that back! What do you think you are doing?* I yelled back, over my shoulder, that I was going to see what it was he was trying to hide from me.
What did I find? Another damn camera which we need like tits on a bull around here. The only thing that DID puzzle me was I recognized it as a rather inexpensive Canon camera. Made for the amateur photographer, which the Beast is not. He has cameras that professional photographers slobber over when they see them. I saw one do it a couple years back when we were at a Hot Air Balloon Festival. I could scarcely believe it.
Anyway, he kept saying it wasn't expensive. I told him that the word *expensive* depended on just who was using it. If it cost more than $100. it was expensive and not money I felt we should be spending. But you can't stop the Beast.
Later on (I wasn't talking to him at that point), I found out why he bought it. He actually had done a lot of research on cameras that had the components that he wanted from a camera and he had the lenses to increase the sharpness of the pictures besides. The reason for it? He's gotten so shaky that he HAS to use a tripod to take pictures any more. His cameras, with the lenses he uses, are heavy. With his telephoto lenses on this one, it's very much lighter. I mean a couple pounds lighter. Really! I know he hates to admit that he's lost so much strength and *steadiness* and it becomes a chore to change the camera around if he wants to take a picture at a different angle. So I kind of forgave him for THAT but I was still mad at him for attempting to hide it from me. Worse, for not telling me about it before he ordered it.
He discovered a couple interesting things both about the camera and the cd that came with it that had (supposedly) several different programs on it. When he tried to open the programs on the cd, it was almost empty. So he went to the site to try to find the program that would open the type of pictures the camera took as well as the program for when/if he took videos with it. Yes, it has that capability, too. Anyway, at the site, it told him to put the original cd that came with the camera into his computer. He did and, amazingly, a bunch of programs were suddenly there. They actually had them HIDDEN on the cd. I guess to discourage copies being made without having the *key* to unlock where they were hidden. Clever people.
He used it today to take some pictures of Tara's older son, Keith, who is a senior this year. He hated the ones that they took for the yearbook so he was told he had to submit his own so he would be in it. I'm not sure if the picture was to replace the regular photos or if it was for the sports section since he plays either baseball or football. I'm not really sure. Shame on me. I'm a bad great-auntie! Anyway, the Beast got several good pictures of him. Unfortunately, even though Keith wanted the pictures, there was a certain reluctance on his part that you could see. He had some god-awful grimaces on a few of the pictures. Not natural smiles at all! But then there are at least a half dozen or so of nice smiles. In one picture, he looks almost like he's getting ready to laugh at something off camera that he sees or hears. Anyway, he should like them. The Beast also got rid of some of his skin problems with photo shop. Those *problems* will be gone in a couple years so it won't matter if they are fudged a bit. Most professional studios do that anyway. He's really a good looking young man.
We both liked the quality of the pictures the camera took. The Beast could have printed up an 18x24 blowup and never lost any of the quality of the picture. That is a GOOD camera, regardless of whether it was a $200 camera or one that cost $14,000 (yes, he has one that cost us that much...just for the body of the camera...no lens). Oh, and that was the price over 10 years ago. I don't even want to know what a new one in that category costs but I already told the Beast I would divorce him if he even THOUGHT about it. LOL!
Oh, the other packages were a couple frames for the two unframed 18 x 24 pictures he made up. One is another one of Chewlee and the other is one of her with me. He had to work hard to make me look decent...ROFL! The third package was the wet/dry shop vac with the long hose and attachments that we got with our points from the credit card we use from time to time. I can't believe how fast we got everything after ordering it. I really figured that it wouldn't be unheard of to have to wait six or eight WEEKS for it. It wasn't even a week from when we ordered it until we got it. Amazing.
Love you all. Stay warm and dry. Drive carefully in areas with snow and freezing weather. Remember there is such a thing as black ice, which is very, very dangerous. I need all the readers I can keep. **Wink**
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