It’s 2am, I haven’t gone to sleep yet, but I should, because my sweet little girl has been sleeping since 9pm. She will almost for sure wake me up between 6am and 7am. So I’m going to be pretty tired. I dunno whats wrong with me, the thermostat says 68 degrees, but my forhead is sweaty. Maybe I’m sick, I hope not. I leave for London this friday. I’m pretty excited! I think I’ve pretty much got everything ready to go.I finally went shopping at Nordstrom (i had gotten a gift certificate for xmas this year and hadn’t used it yet). It was very nice. The guys there were super helpful, they spent a lot of time packing up my bag and folding the clothes. What really surprised me was that they shook my hand and thanked me for their business. If it wasn’t so expensive, I might actually shop there more often. ...

I’ll be going to London March 5th – March 12th! I’m excited! Get to see my grandad and some cousins and an aunt and uncle. I got tons of film and I’m bringing the digital also. It will be nice to take a week off. If I have wireless available somewhere, I’ll probably blog now and then.

Goodnight moon

This old girl is gonna quit soon, need some new equipment.

Well, I returned my Epson 2400, I decided to upgrade to the 2450, because the 2400 was not meant to handle medium format. I’d much rather use a scanner that for sure will handle all the medium format negatives my heard desires. I will review the 2450 and compare it to the 2400 when it arrives. I bought the 2450 on ebay refurbished with a 1 year warranty for about $170 (Circuit City sells it for $299 brand new). ...

Now that I’ve gotten into photography much more, I decided I needed a scanner that not only would do prints, but also my slides and negatives. Wrote up a quick review on it. Read it here.

Man oh man have I been slacking, no new posts in a while. Technology related New Year’s Resolutions: Post more in my weblog Post better pictures on my photoblog Learn more about photography Improve linux and perl skills Volunteer on an open source project Use even less Microsoft Products Take more photos!!

=== Christmas Cookies Christmas Cookie Ingredients: 1 cup of water 1 tsp baking soda 1 cup of sugar 1 tsp salt 1 cup of brown sugar lemon juice 4 large eggs 1 cup nuts 2 cups of dried fruit 1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequilla Sample the Cuervo to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the Cuervo again, to be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink. Turn on the electric mixer…Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar…Beat again. At this point it’s best to make sure the Cuervo is still OK, try another cup … just in case. ...

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Crushing all the little farmers.