Well shit. I guess I’m

by | Oct 17, 2001 | Imported Entry

Well shit. I guess I’m just going to have to break down and buy a flash. I never really liked using a flash, it always looked rather “fake” but today in color we learned how to use one and not suck… so I might have to order one from B&H. And on that note… I have no idea what flash to get. Usually I’m good about this stuff and have a constant working knowledge of all of my equipment and what things to use with them, but seeing as how I never use a flash, I’m a bit lost. I know I need a “manual or non-TTL” flash that fits into a “hot shoe” but what the hell does that mean? Every flash I’ve looked at is TTL and I don’t know if they have “manual modes” or not. Nikon recommends their own flashes for their cameras (obviously) but their “SpeedLight” models start at $150 and go up. Arg. I’ll figure it out… I’ll just have to find the damn technical specs for my camera (which I own, but I have no idea where I put them).

In other randomness, I got an ego boost in Digital today. I believe the comment from my teacher was “Damn, well, no one will ever accuse you of being an underacheiver”. I was pleased. Oh well. The assignment wasn’t very hard, so I got it done quickly, and after finishing it I kept going. So I had about 12 versions of an image that I only needed 3 of.

I’ve got to remember to go to the Bursars Office after class and make sure my loan stuff went through. I wonder if they’ll screw me and I’ll get money for next semester instead of this semester? Leaving me having to pay for this semester out of pocket (or rather on credit cards). I bet they will. I bet I’ll have a nice chunk of money sitting there but they’ll say that I won’t have any more by January so that I’ll need to use that to pay for next semester instead of paying myself back for this semester. Damn, I hate money. Or, more acuratly, I hate people that control my money and don’t tell me why, when or if I’ll ever see it again.

Lastly, its a damn fine day today. Its about 65, breezy and clear. Man, this is how life should be. I’ve got that nifty jacket on again and I plan on taking a walk to the Bursars Office instead of driving. It’s that nice. Ok, break time is over, back to class I go.

Well, Chris leave today for

by | Oct 17, 2001 | Imported Entry

Well, Chris leave today for Microsoft. Good luck bro, I doubt you’ll need it, but good luck just the same. I’ve got to copy over my assignment to a zip disk and head to class now. Bye.

swim into the open waters,

by | Oct 16, 2001 | Imported Entry

swim into the open waters,
drift on the currents you may find

find a soul in the sunrise,
look around you can see it in their eyes

be as one together,
rise up as the emptiness subsides

you can see forever
rise up
together

search and you will find the answer
if you look deep inside your mind

you can see
forever

Hey Hey. I’d like to

by | Oct 16, 2001 | Imported Entry

Hey Hey. I’d like to send some shouts out to everyone who’s been reading this lately. In the past week or so, there’s been 200-250 readers, just in that week alone. I checked the logs and it’s just not my friends reading. There’s people from just about everywhere checking in and that’s really cool. Huzah to you guys!

Ok, as for my day. I did nothing. Perfect, simple nothing. It was wonderful. I woke up late, decided I didn’t need to go to class, slept some more, ate some food and generally took my time doing everything. Fantastic. As Chris has mentioned, and as I have know for a long time, every once in a while you need to sit and watch the world go by.

I did however, make it to the store to buy supplies for my next project. I ended up at Lowe’s, which is sort of like Home Depot for those of you who may not have the chain nearby. It’s always funny to me to walk into those places. You can always find two completely different types of people. Those who know what they’re looking for and could tell you the difference between Craftmen and Stanley tools without blinking an eye, and those of us who don’t belong anywhere near a hardware store. I think I’m somewhere in the middle (I also think I just contradicted myself). But, anyway, it took me a little while to find what I needed, but eventually found it all. So, if I’m ambitious tonight, I may just start in on a new project. We’ll see.

Various other things are going on as well. The evil yankees are probably going to win the series against the A’s. Boo!!! (sorry, I’m a Red Sox fan, I’ve got to hate the yanks). Chris got his new iPaq in the mail. Deep Dish is coming to Atlanta but I turn 21 a few weeks late and can’t see them, and there was a Big D & the Kids Table show tonight in Jacksonville. I would have gone, but I didn’t really have the cash. Jason went though, he’ll have to tell me about it later.