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Look, quad Sylvanias! ...not exactly.

I arranged a temporary trade this evening. I lent my EF 35mm F/2 (my favorite lens, I shoot with it extensively) to a friend of mine, and he in turn let be borrow his EF 85mm F/1.8 portrait lens. This is a very mutually beneficial swap. If he is sufficiently pleased the 35mm F/2, he'll buy it instead of it's F/1.4L cousin (which is about $1000 more expensive.) Other than EF 70-200 F/4L IS, the 85/1.8 is the lens I am most likely to buy next. It takes me a while to "get" a lens. Much more time than 5-10 minutes in a shop, or even an afternoon's rental (not that there is a lens rental place around here.) I'm looking forward to spending the next couple weeks working with the 85mm. This is why I love the 35mm F/2: I have shot with the 85/1.8 before, but none of the results are remarkable enough to post here. Hopefully there will be some soon.

Alternate caption "There goes the neighborhood."

The short - but eventful - life of Ike

Wow. Ninja cat is kind of creepy. Nope. According to Snopes both the driver and his 10 year old son survived.

Glad you're in one piece and not using your products to stay afloat.

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KGBHSE - Justin ICHCB? - lolcat AF-SVRZ-NGED-IF - Nikon AYBABTU - CATS

From the private collection of John Grado. Serial # JAG8. I think Billy should buy them.

I did lights lights last night @ the club for the first time in about a month. That kept me up far later than I'd have liked. In spite of that, I got up entirely too early this morning and went to the lumber yard with the contractors. We bought a mess of 2x3"s and they built a temporary wall inside my living room. I went to the dentist. On the way back, I stopped at a local farm stand, and bought far more vegetables than I need (all I had was a $10, which buys a lot there apparently.) I stopped by my mum's house and gave some of my farm stand haul. I returned home and wrote the contractors a check for an enormous some of money. I made a small dinner and chatted with my housemate for a minute. I briefly considered watching Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? but the weight of my own eyelids was crushing me. I went to "lie down" for a minute and woke up 5 hours later.

I spent over $4200 this week.

Flickr: fukusuke-pon ?'s Photostream I can no longer link to flickr photo pages, because the message editor tries to interpret URLs and ruins them.

I bought some items from Wild West Electronics for the radio station where I work. It was a number of years ago, but I am recalling they had very good service.