Consumers of my Flickr photostream will see new photos for the first time this year. Last year, I bought Alex’s Canon 10D body, but after that, I didn’t have any desire to take photos. [I never claimed to be a rational actor.] My old Sony went to some friends, who have put it to good use.

As I got ready to go to Portland, though, I got the desire up to take photos again, so I picked up some lenses for it. Just today, I got my 4GB Compact Flash card. I installed it in the 10D, turned the camera on, and saw the beautiful result on the LCD: 999. Yep, I can well exceed 1,000 photos on that card, which means my battery will run out long before the storage does.

My hotel has complimentary Internet access, and my iBook will be going with me on the trip. I plan to take lots of photos. [I don't presume that any of them will be any good; my brother is the shutterbug in this family.] They’ll start coming out as soon as I get there, I’m sure.
In 24 hours or so, I should be most of the way to my parents’ house in Tennessee; I will then do as quick of a job installing their DSL modem and setting up a small home network as I know how [having just done this here at home with virtually the same equipment, I should find it easy]. I’ll get up on Saturday and haul ass to Nashville to fly on out. Both of my plane changes happen in California, which will technically indicate that I’ve spent time in the Golden State; while I’m tempted to not count it, I’ll spend much more time there than I have in Delaware.