A series of (unfortunate/fortunate) events
Fortunate: Working in a camera shop means I am first line of enquiry when a customer decides to sell his 20D.
Unfortunate: As the 20D is a beautiful and brilliant camera, it’s rather expensive.
Fortunate: Second-hand, it’s a third of the price.
Unfortunate: That’s still three hundred and thirty pounds, with memory card etc. being extra.
Fortunate: I’ve just been paid.
Unfortunate: The customer is going away for two weeks and doesn’t have the camera on him.
Fortunate: I’m stopping this fortunate/unfortunate thing as I’ve run out of things to say.
So anyway, I am now the owner of a three-month old Canon 20D digital SLR in perfect condition. Currently, my photography isn’t great but having a digital camera means no expense in practicing (and colleagues at work have promised to critically comment to help me improve).
My first expedition with the camera was to the University of Bristol to visit a friend. During my stay I caught freshers’ flu which left me completely dead for a couple of days and I’m still recovering. (I slept for fifteen hours Saturday night.)
This week I have a website to finish and launch (a jewellery website for a friend’s business), an exam to prepare for, and of course work. I think I’ll watch a film this evening.
Currently listening to Drive My Car – The Beatles
Matthew @ 16:49, December 5, 2005 to Diary | Comments (12)
Comments:
Rory
Matthew, have you got AIDS or something? You seem to have practically no immune system, catching illnesses everywhere!
Comment added at 19:42, December 5, 2005
Cat
Yeah you do seem remarkably susceptible to things. Although, if I’m honest, I did fall prey to freshers’ flu myself…
Comment added at 16:04, December 6, 2005
Mr E
Who were you visiting? Initials will probably do.
Comment added at 17:09, December 6, 2005
Salmon of Doubt
That camera is absolutely stunning. *Mutters jealously*
I get the feeling that tree would look quite cool upside down, bizarrely. It’s slightly lopsided, although the lighting’s great.
Comment added at 18:16, December 6, 2005
Salmon
I knew that would happen.
Comment added at 18:18, December 6, 2005
Matthew
Wrong type of slash :) – I’ll fix it. It’s a \ not a /. Also, the tree was lopsided in real life, I remember distinctly. (Actually that’s just an excuse but I’m pretty sure anyway.)
Mr E: I was visiting Chris H.
Comment added at 19:26, December 6, 2005
Salmon
Jo’s site looks funny in Firefox, by the way.
Looks amaaazing in IE though. Odd.
Even if I object to the colour scheme. But I suppose you didn’t choose it. I hope so anyway… (Or is it hope not? English confuzzles me. *sniff*)
Comment added at 15:48, December 11, 2005
Matthew
I did the entire design on Firefox and then hacked the stylesheet so that IE looks the same. Please don’t say Firefox 1.5 renders it differently… it looks fine on version 1 and 1.5 should have fixed CSS bugs not created them…
And I matched the colour scheme to her stationery.
Comment added at 10:59, December 12, 2005
Salmon
Ooh, looks fine now. Sorry.
Jo has pink stationery? /worries/
Comment added at 11:19, December 12, 2005
Mr E
That site seems to imply that bleach is acidic.
Comment added at 11:25, December 12, 2005
Matthew
You could argue that, as three alkaline substances are named first followed by “and anything acidic”, it implies that they are not. That said, I can’t remember what the other things were off-hand and whether or not they are in fact alkaline. Still, not using acid on pearls is good advice…
Salmon: the colour is in fact “salmon”. I thought you’d approve…
Comment added at 13:58, December 12, 2005
Salmon
I did approve of that colour until an enthusiastic American tourist used it to describe a t-shirt I was wearing.
Please don’t ask me what I was doing wearing flourescent orange in the first place.
So I’ll just think of it as pink. :P
Comment added at 17:20, December 15, 2005
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