Sometimes, when I leave the house, I take my camera out with me for the sole purpose of capturing an image that I can use for my Photo of the Day feature … and, usually, what happens is, I see something worth photographing, attempt to do so, and discover that I’ve forgotten to remove from the card reader back on my desk the memory card that is supposed to be in the camera, but isn’t.
Or, if I should happen to have remembered to return the memory card to its rightful place inside the camera, I’ll drive by something that looks Photo of the Day-worthy, but decide it’s not worth the dealing with all the U-turning shenanigans that returning to the scene would require.
More often than not, however, I just plain forget to grab the camera.
But, lo and behold, last week, when I went to the mall to purchase a copy of the new Apple OS (which has made my computer run oh-so-nicely, thank gawd), and parked against the newly erected retaining wall on the periphery of the parking lot, and noticed that said retaining wall was visually pleasing, I had with me a fully functional, memory-card-loaded camera. So, tah-dah!
And it’s the perfect photo for today, because today is Tuesday, and Tuesdays during the school year are run-yourself-through-a-meat-grinder days for the Scratches family … and all day long, I wanted to finish writing my latest blog entry, but first I had to take the kids to their respective schools … and then, a short while later, I had to pick Jayna up from preschool and take her to daycare … and then I had to pick Zan up from school and go with him to our haircut appointments … and then I brought him home and tried to get a little work done before the nightly dinner/post-dinner/bedtime bonanza began … after which my employer asked me out of the blue to record a voiceover for a last-minute project, and the person to whom I delivered the voiceover wanted it to be “more peppy and Top 40-ish,” and, boy howdy, if ever there were adjectives to describe my natural vocal delivery, well, peppy and Top 40-ish would most definitely be those adjectives. Except, not so much.
And now, it is late at night, and this is when I usually make up for lost time, and force myself to write a new blog entry and add the various photos and so on and so forth … but tonight, friends, I have HIT. THE. WALL.
And so, though it pains me to do so, I shall wait till tomorrow to post a new blog entry. (Although, seriously: the Photo of the Day thing really should count as a full-fledged blog entry, am I right? Please tell me I’m right. I’m right, right?)
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Funny! I saw that picture and could immediately imagine my kids wanting to see if they could be Superman and, ahem, hit the wall.
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You’re right, Jon. (-:
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Having been there, done that many times with the camera thing, I have made some useful discoveries:
1. Most digital cameras have a memory for such occasions. Downloading memory pix to your computer involves using the cord that came with the camera–the one you left in the box.
2. When I take the flash card out of the camera, I always leave the access door open. Then when I grab the camera there’s a visual hint that, while I might be ready to go, the camera is not!
Hope this isn’t old info to you.
Gully
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It definitely counts!
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You’re right. That’ easily aespectable legnth for an entry.
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–>We all it the wall from time to time for sure. I just think some people run into it Head first on a regular basis.
~deb
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Definitely counts as an entry. Pictures + words = blog post.
I love the shadows in this pic, by the way. Excellent job putting the sun where you needed it.