Whew. Saturday has already come and gone. It was a busy day! I slept in (priority numero uno!!) and then proceeded to: talk to Monique, my mom, and two of my friend(s) from work; go to Wally World to return the piece of junk I bought the other day (we'll get back to this!); go to a baseball game; tell my neighber that no, she could not use my bathtub to ice her quad injury (Seriously. She knocked on my door and asked if she could fill my tub with ice water and then she'd go back & forth and back & forth from her tub (with hot water) to my tub. Good idea, but...no.); go to the laundromat; and, work on projects/reports/readings for my online summer course in astronomy (we'll get back to this, as well). In between all of this, I sneezed. And sneezed. And sneezed. It was not fun. My poor nose looks like good 'ol Rudy's. :o(
Anyway, getting back to my camera. The problem with it -- that NO one could seem to fix -- was that the display screen would turn off at random times (not the camera, just the screen itself) OR sometimes the dumb thing wouldn't display at all!! Errg. So off to Wally I went and I decided to give this brand of camera one more shot. However, Wally did not have any more cool red ones in stock, so I'm stuck with silver. How exciting. Now I will be able to pick out my camera in a flash -- pun intended -- when everyone gets together and we all set our cameras on the same picnic table. I might have to think of a nifty way to mark it so that I know in the blink of an eye which one belongs to ME. Any suggestions?
Hopefully this new piece of equipment will work better (so far, so good...at least compared to the last one!) but if it doesn't, we're going back to Wally and picking out a Canon (based on the suggestion of Jona). So, keep your fingers crossed that this one lasts for a long time! Or at least until I get my money's worth out of it!
Lastly, I wanted to say one quick thing about astronomy. I'm taking a class to fulfill a science requirement for that bachelor's degree that I'm GOING TO get before I'm 30 (3 1/2 years and counting!) and while it's tough to take the time to do the work and get the assignments in, it's just a fascinating topic. I was out observing the sky tonight and was looking for various stars and other things and I thought that I should tell all you moms out there that if your kids are looking for something fun to learn you should go to the library or get online and look up some maps of stars and then head out to do some observing. It's kinda cool! I don't have a telescope for this class, but so far my binoculars have worked just fine! Happy Observing (should you choose to do it!). :)
So, a busy day, but a good one. I probably could have done more, but I sure could have done a lot less, too! :) I hope that you also had a great day!!
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Well, with your new interest in astronomy, you really MUST come back down here. The observatory is 45 minutes away and they have great star parties at night or day programs and I hear they are really amazing - neat to look through the big telescopes and have an expert tell you what you are looking at. We're for sure taking Mel's kids when they come. So, yet another reason you should come back for a visit...even if it means you have to put up with Morgan again. :)
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