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caddymanI find myself in the distressing position of wanting to leave the office, but knowing that it's pointless since I have arranged to meet the quiz team for a training session down at the Royal Oak. This won't kick off for another couple of hours and it makes no sense to go home and then come back up into (nearly) the centre again.
So I have to fill a couple of hours and I suspect that the best place to do so is here, in the office. In about half an hour the office population will start thinning out a bit, so the computer games become a feasible time passer. Nonetheless….
I am borrowing a digital camera to take to NWO next weekend; I have to decide whether or not to take the laptop too, so that I can download pictures onto it, thus increasing the number I can safely take at a reasonable level of clarity. The outcome of that little experiment will help me decide whether or not I should buy my own digital camera. Common sense tells me that I really don't have a great deal of use for one, but like so many other people, I rarely let common sense stand in my way. Nonetheless, financial imperatives and a rare moment of decision combine to reinforce the common sense view that I can wait a while longer if not resist permanently.
I have marked out the long weekend for some shopping (including a trip to the local sorting office to pick up a package - I did not hear the doorbell at all this morning…) for new trousers, some tidying up and a bit of painting. The weather is now cool enough to allow me to break out the enamels and mix them without them congealing and setting before I am ready. In fact that has been true for sometime, now, but I refuse to paint this model under lamplight - well, the flesh tones anyway, since what looks good under a bulb does not do so in natural light. Happily the situation is not true the other way round. Evenings now get too dark too early, and this is the first available weekend for some time. In fact it's the only available weekend for sometime - next week as I have already said above and elsewhere is NWO, so no painting then either.
I am trying to decide whether amongst all the refereeing, I shall have any time spare for drawing, and consequently whether it is worth packing the pad and pencils…
So I have to fill a couple of hours and I suspect that the best place to do so is here, in the office. In about half an hour the office population will start thinning out a bit, so the computer games become a feasible time passer. Nonetheless….
I am borrowing a digital camera to take to NWO next weekend; I have to decide whether or not to take the laptop too, so that I can download pictures onto it, thus increasing the number I can safely take at a reasonable level of clarity. The outcome of that little experiment will help me decide whether or not I should buy my own digital camera. Common sense tells me that I really don't have a great deal of use for one, but like so many other people, I rarely let common sense stand in my way. Nonetheless, financial imperatives and a rare moment of decision combine to reinforce the common sense view that I can wait a while longer if not resist permanently.
I have marked out the long weekend for some shopping (including a trip to the local sorting office to pick up a package - I did not hear the doorbell at all this morning…) for new trousers, some tidying up and a bit of painting. The weather is now cool enough to allow me to break out the enamels and mix them without them congealing and setting before I am ready. In fact that has been true for sometime, now, but I refuse to paint this model under lamplight - well, the flesh tones anyway, since what looks good under a bulb does not do so in natural light. Happily the situation is not true the other way round. Evenings now get too dark too early, and this is the first available weekend for some time. In fact it's the only available weekend for sometime - next week as I have already said above and elsewhere is NWO, so no painting then either.
I am trying to decide whether amongst all the refereeing, I shall have any time spare for drawing, and consequently whether it is worth packing the pad and pencils…
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Date: 2004-08-27 10:03 am (UTC)Digital camera' are brill. We am taking ours, well not actually ours as that has gone walkabout, we are taking Ghatanys Daddy's camera and our lap top on jollies and thus to NWO. Digitals are easy and any foo (or this one at least) can take a reasonable photo without going thru the pain of tossing the 'finger over lense/out of focus/just plain dull' pictures.
my 2 cents
Date: 2004-08-27 11:55 am (UTC)I have no clue about digital cameras and which are the best and which aren't. Mine's and Olympus Camedia D-390.
Re: my 2 cents
Date: 2004-08-27 04:09 pm (UTC)Re: my 2 cents
Date: 2004-08-27 06:35 pm (UTC)I'd say bring your drawing implements, if only for those hours spent droning on in tribunal where there is little ref input required.
Re: my 2 cents
Date: 2004-08-28 02:00 am (UTC)Re: my 2 cents
Date: 2004-08-28 06:28 pm (UTC)Re: my 2 cents
Date: 2004-08-28 06:50 pm (UTC)How may megapixels?
Re: my 2 cents
Date: 2004-08-29 05:29 pm (UTC)Re: my 2 cents
Date: 2004-08-29 05:37 pm (UTC)Re: my 2 cents
Date: 2004-08-30 02:41 am (UTC)Besides, I can programme a video recorder ... so I can't be a luddite.
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Date: 2004-08-28 01:32 am (UTC)only cos I'm vain and want to be drawn
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Date: 2004-08-28 02:00 am (UTC)