The photo that wasn't there.
I know someone took a picture or pictures of me when I was riding Captain, one of the jouster's horses, on Sunday. I'd like to get a copy of any such photos. I handed my camera to someone to take pictures of that as well and evidently they didn't take any pictures. This morning the memory card was finally read and there are no images of me riding Captain. Maybe whoever it was only pressed the "shutter" button halfway? Maybe I didn't have the camera set up right when I handed it off. I don't know.
Reading the memory card was its own little adventure. I'd have likely taken more pictures if I had been able to read the card with the laptop. I hadn't checked that until Friday night at the hotel and ran into trouble, so I was being somewhat cautious about taking pictures. I wasn't sure if the hub/card-reader or the laptop was the problem, or both. Turns out, it's both. The laptop is now having trouble reading any USB device. I'm really only waiting for Ultima Linux 8.1 to be released as stable and then I'll likely do a complete re-install, after backing up a few things so I can get things set up the way I want. But the hub/card-reader works fine with my desktop machine at home, except for properly reading CompactFlash cards. It shows up as being there, but the images all appear to be empty which makes no sense. The reader didn't work with jmaynard's Mac either. So it looks like I need to replace that. Hey, I think I might still have the receipt and there's a 90 day warranty which hasn't run out just yet. Of course, if when I get my own camera it likely will use SD cards rather than CF. Still, the reader should read everything it claims to be able to read.
We finally got the pictures from the card by using a different reader. I have a bunch of photos and a few even turned out. A bunch did not, but at least I'm not going through film and development expenses to find that out. I suppose this weekend will be spent picking which photos to show off, editing them, and getting them on the web. I probably should burn a CD or a few with that and all the large unedited pictures so I can give that to those who might desire such.