Ok...for the last 2 days now my previously broken audio equipment has been humming along quite nicely. It turns out the firmware for the unit had to be upgraded due to the OS upgrade I installed prior to leaving Utah. Bah. I'm still pissed that I missed recording Joemamma's speech and the first day of the conference but everything else is humming ( Read more... )

Yesterday Joemamma and I took off to find "Professional Photographic Repair, Inc." of San Diego. Back on Thursday, after we arrived here in Cali. I dropped my camera bag in the men's room and broke the front filter on my 80-200 mm f2.8 lens. That sucked. $76 later my lens is all repaired. Fortunately only the front filter broke (it's a screw-on ( Read more... )

Finally! The laptop is back and I've nearly finished loading all of the applications I had on there beforehand. I've also managed to keep 99% of my original preferences and all of my e-mail and address book info. Life is good again ( Read more... )

Yay! Thanks to my good buddy Tim who has tools, we were able to build a kick-ass bookcase for only $40 worth of materials and 4 hours or so worth of time! The whole thing is all solid wood and it's built like a brick shithouse. Now I can finally clean up the crap off the floor of my bedroom and set things right. Life is good again.