Chaffing Problems?
Chaffing, rash and/or itch problems boys? Maybe you're not taking care of things the way you should. This might help:
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Canon S1 IS
8/7/08
And here we are one month shy of four years of using this camera…and I'm here to report that it died this past weekend. It's not completely dead, but certainly unusable. It appears that the sensor is shot as it's massively overexposing any picture you attempt to take. Of course I discovered this out of town, outdoors and at a family reunion this past weekend. :( So new camera is definitely on the horizon. Likely a Canon S5 IS which it the updated 8MP, 12x zoom version of the S1 IS which I've very much have enjoyed. Another option would be a Canon A650 IS which is a 12MP, 6x zoom. From doing some research the A650 has a little better picture quality, but I'm having a hard time giving up the zoom range of the S series. We will see.
A most exciting treat arrived on my doorstep yesterday as my parents bought me a Canon PowerShot S1 IS digital camera for my birthday. Or as I told them when I called to thank them, my "birthmas" as this should easily cover Christmas as well as my birthday for me. I've been longing for a digital camera for a good 3 years now, but simply haven't had the cash available for such luxuries. And a few months ago I found this gem and have been lusting after it ever since. My best hope was that a new higher mega-pixel version would come out and force the price down.
The reason I desired this camera was the 10x optical zoom. Most digital cameras are only 3x because you can't take handheld photos beyond that because of image blurring due to camera shake. But with this one you can because its got this really cool image stabilization feature. And based on some of the reviews I read (here and here), all of them give this camera very high marks. So here it is:
And the backside…
That's all the good happy news. Now the bad stuff… …more
Jim? Jim's dead.
And not only is Jim dead, he's been dead for 2 years Oh yeah, and nobody even knew! That direct deposit and auto-payment stuff seems to work pretty damn well. ;)
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40
So forty years ago today I made my initial appearance in the world. And since then I've seen some good and bad times, although I can't really say I've ever really experienced anything awful in my life. Hopefully I will be just as fortunate in the future. I guess this also makes me middle aged now, but I don't consider it to be the middle of my ages. For me that will be at least 50 as my goal is to be a centenarian. Although it may turn out that I was wrong by as much as 60 years! I'm trying to avoid that though, by taking care of myself and not doing too many obviously stupid and dangerous things…although today's bike ride might fit in that category! For the most part I don't feel 40, and I agree with most people as they say that I don't look 40 and God knows, I certainly don't act it! So cheers to me and here's to another 60 years or so.
9/14/04
I had my "birthday party" (Mary Lou & the girls) on Sunday evening. A very low-key event, but I did get a copy of The Matrix. This is quite exciting as I've actually never seen this movie although I have wanted to for a long time! Now if I can find 136 minutes when I won't fall asleep!