Last couple of days.

Wednesday-Thursday

Ok.. I really thought I would get to this right away.. but I had a horrible day to days ago.. and
I couldn't even come here to whine about it.

I am in the middle of an H2H tourney and this time around it is against six_something and I will almost positively lose.. but still.. you know .. I still feel I should give me best.. so I set up a photo session .. in my elaborate studio.. my kitchen table. I have a feeling a few of you have a similar setup and can sympathize.

Well.... anyways.. the theme is bad habits... (ok.. normally I should talk about this here.. but like nobody in the entire world except for me even knows this little blog exists so... without further ado..) I was going to photograph a glass of rum with a a fishing lure with 3 hooks hooked on the side of the glass. The idea was like hooked on drinking... I also bummed a cigarette from my neighbor across the street to try and do something similar with that...but as luck may have it.. I started out with the rum.

I looked at several different ways of setting up the hooks.. and came to something that I liked and poured a glass of rum in a small stemmed glass... setting my camera up.. I wanted it to be fairly close so I had my camera a few inches in front of the drink.. everything looked pretty good except for the darn background that I could see the corner of the card and what was behind it.. so I when to lift the card higher... and didn't remove the rum first.. well.. I knocked the rum right onto my camera... I lift it up and pressed one button to see if it was ok.. and it flashed and everything went dead.. Took the batteries out, took out the CF card.. everything.. but nothing works..

So now if anyone ever does come here... they will absolutely think I spend my time balling my eyes out.. and I assure you that isn't the truth.. although I do cry from time to time. I was very upset... I ruined my camera.. I ruined it! I ruined it! I felt so terrible.

We just spent the last weekend before out of town.. on a small trip we probably shouldn't have taken because we cannot really afford it.. but it was just something that we needed.. a few days away from home , from the old train-train... and just having fun the two of us. We went to a winery.. we went to a fort.. and an enchanted forest (not so enchanting after-all.. but not too bad!) and even went to visit "Les Chocolats Martine" where we bought both a huge box of beautiful belgian chocolat (the owners are belgian and make very fine chocolates) and chocolate cups for port. We also went to a Salon Gastronomique and bought several bottles of wine.. some liqueur de Cerises de Terre.. some Fraises Apérif.. and 3 bottles of Quebec Porto (not really called Porto here because it doesn't come from Portugal.. but Fortified wine-- Vin Fortifié)
so... with all our purchases and the hotel.. we really were ready to pull on the belt buckle for awhile... and were quite ready to.

So.. the day I spilled the rum .. on Wednesday... Sylvain had gone fishing with Michel and came home with several Dorés (pickerel? ) and some other kind of fish that supposedly would be good.
Entering the house it was evident something was wrong.. one look at me and Sylvain could see that my eyes were all red and swollen and he asked what was wrong.. so I burst into tears and told him what happened...

You got to love the guy.. instead of saying something insensitive like ... that was dumb.. or you should've watched out etc., (exactly what I was feeling by the way) .. he said.. well.. we are going to get you another one.. we can't afford a better one.. (Actually I was hoping for a better one perhaps near Xmas time) but now I pretty much had to accept a camera the equivalent of what I already had... It's a weird feeling.. feeling happy because you are not going to be without ... feeling guilty that you ruined the one you had (that of course you planned on giving said husband when you upgraded your own) and feeling even more guilty wishing we could buy an even better model...

Anways.. everything is pretty much back to normal and I now have another camera.. an A75 instead of the A70.. I am having a bit of a problem with the autofocus.. especially with the macro mode... but at least I can take pictures...

After supper.. later on tonight.. I have to take another picture and I 'm feeling like someone who fell off a horse and is afraid to get back on.. Isn't that the stupidest thing.. I will be ok though.. just give me a few hours taking pictures and I be back to my uncareful self... sadly .. I hope I have learned something from this experience.

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Today is quite cold... We have been having the most lousy weather I can remember in all my life.. this summer really sucks.. I think we have had about 1 week of sunshine and that is about it.
Today around noon we put a pork shoulder on the BBQ and now it is 7:30 pm and we should get ready to eat really soon.. the thing should be ready to fall apart.. I'm so hungry.. having a pair of toast with a bit of peanut butter isn't exactly alot for a whole day.

enough for now.