Sleep Spent

On the 2nd, I went to the third Ultimate Team Cardboard Fortress Battle. It was fun; I didn’t battle on account of it not being fun the last time I tried it. Pictures available here.

While I was there, I used someone’s EOS 350D. It was a transformative experience. I really want one now. I’ve been talking with my photo nut friends (I have many of them) and they keep tellling me that I should look into a prosumer digicam, not an SLR, unless I’m serious. It’s hard to tell how serious I would be without the equipment there. And I wouldn’t want to drop $600+ on something I didn’t use. But if I did drop that kind of money on a camera, you can bet I’d be taking pictures of damn near everything.

So I’m a little conflicted, though I keep remembering back to the joy of manual zooming and what it felt like to click the shutter button and have the photo take right away. I’m pretty sure I’m going to get a 350D. John Scalo has a great lens he’s going to give me for cheap. I just have to pay my credit card off and I’ll be golden. :-)

What else? After my angsty post from last week, I got an e-mail from a friend in North Carolina who said I should meet a friend of his, Martin, who was also here in SF. Martin and I got together Saturday morning for brunch and had a great time. He learned a little (hopefully not too much!) about The Decemberists and I learned that the cock (rooster) is the symbol of France, in the same way the eagle is for the US and the bear is for Russia.

We’re getting together again on Wednesday. I’ll keep you posted. :-)

Ugh, tired! I’m going to go get some sleep.