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Woke up with the cold and cough getting nastier. Tutored someone at my university for a few hours. Very bright girl. Started school at 16 and is taking 7 classes right now. I keep telling her to slow down and that losing those years really isn't worth it but she wants to finish med school before she gets wrinkles. Perhaps not so bright after all. Went to Whole Foods for lunch and enjoyed a blackened spicy chicken sandwich and an ice cold Reeds Ginger Brew. Drove up to see Julie and helped her with some Bio and Math for a couple of hours. Made a publix run for her while she studied and then made Salmon and Spanish rice for dinner with a butter/lemon/chicken broth/parsley sauce which was too runny but Julie said she enjoyed it anyways. We talked over dinner about lovely last weekend was and how neither of us like to go out to clubs/bars but as boring as we might be, we love each others company. She studied some more afterwards while I graded some tests. At 10 I had to say goodnight to drive home and tonight more than ever before I didn't want to leave her. I can't remember the last time I was this genuinely happy and content with the way my life is going. Sure there is always room for improvement but I wouldn't change places with anyone. Today was a fairly uneventful day but it felt perfect. Tonight, I also find myself missing Matt. He didn't miss a single chance to tell me to STFU and while neither of us were as close to each other as perhaps some of you were with him, he, in his own way, told me to grow a pair, stop bitching about life and change the way I did things. I make no claim to having done either but I think he would have one less reason tonight to tell me to STFU. Hope you are well, Matt. Wherever you are. I would also like to thank you all for being incredibly kind and patient with me. I have made many mistakes in the past and am sure I will make them in the future however, I am thankful for the guidance and understanding from everyone at some point of time or another. My life has been considerably better for having met you all even if only through the internet. I hope to do so in person sometime. I never got to thank Matt for his advice and wish that such a need does not arise with anyone else anytime soon but thank you. Everyone. Really, thank you for everything.

I wish I had that kind of money.

Mom gave me NyQuil instead of DayQuil as I was walking out the door this morning. Have to give 4 back to back tests so can't pass out on the desk either. Blaaah.

Thank you Vicki.

its 1600 at adorama right now. it was sold new for $2000 around christmas time including the 24-85 lens which usually sells for $350 new. either looking for a good deal or at least a new body for around $1650. i don't mind getting a stop gap for now and waiting until the next sale to grab a d600 assuming I know when it is. If nothing is supposed to come up until thanksgiving again then i'll just buy now. i was simply asking in case people knew of trends as to when these sales pop up.

d600

Anyone know when the next big camera sale will be? I know black friday and christmas are big ones but wondering if there are any before June end.

A question for those who have a zf.2 35/f2 distagon. Is there any play in the aperture ring? I recently acquired a used one and wanted to make sure it was an anomaly before contacting the seller. Unless it is locked at f22, it moves back and forth a bit and makes a "tuk tuk" sound. Even at f22, it still makes noise but less that at other apertures when rocked back and forth. Is this normal behavior or something wrong with the lens? The focus ring is smooth and there is no play with it.

Happy belated birthday Bonnie!

Happy birthday fitzypoo

Went to my first every hockey game tonight. Had center ice seats right next to the penalty box. The Panthers came out swinging But the Canadiens scored within the first minute Then the Panthers got into penalty trouble early But they kept getting into more And then the Canadiens finally won But I was the one who won the most Went to look at apartments for med school earlier in the afternoon and then had dinner at Bahama Breeze. All in all, a lovely date night.

Two assholes backed into the front of my car in the school parking lot today. Didn't leave a note. Different heights of damage and different paint chips. Then on my way to lunch the rear bumper got completely smashed by this 83 year old lady who got out of the car and said, "oh, I'm sorry. I thought my foot was on the brake but I put it on the accelerator by accident. Please don't call the police - lets figure this out." I waited and she pulled out $80 from her wallet and said that should cover it. I called the police. God damn old people.

Must be nice to just have oodles of cash in the back and just give replacements.

External hard drive AirPort Extreme works better for me than any NAS I've tried. Have you looked into that? NAS systems seem too expensive to me for what they do. A friend has a synology unit but I can't remember which model. I can ask.

Marc, all my drives are connected to an AirPort Extreme so needed to format them anyways as ae doesn't read ntfs drives. Gene ill try that later. Thanks.

Thanks gene. I just copy pasted the files over. No fancy program. Macs can read ntfs drives but not write to them. I wanted to write to the drives as well hence the entire cascade format event. I might not have explained correctly. The files are unhidden and I can see them after using the command you posted. I don't want to delete them. I simply want to change their attributes from hidden to unhidden permanently so they look like any other file and then turn off the see hidden files feature. I want to keep all the files - just have them all be visible in regular view mode. I wouldnt even care if to open them I didn't have to right click on them every time and select a program manually where with regular files one can just double click.

Gene here is what I did. Purchased brand new drive A and formatted it to OS X journaled. Copied everything from ntfs formatted drive B to drive A. Files on drive A are hidden. Need to unhide them. Files on drive C were then copied to drive B and drive C was formatted. Cascaded this until all drives were formatted to OS X format. I used the disk utility in mountain lion. All drives have only one partition.

Hahahahahahaha. That is awesome.

ryan, MAX is freeware and does batch conversion. Just leave it running overnight and your library should have been done by the morning. Saves you $10 and fidgeting around with an unnecessary app.

a lot of my hard drives were formatted to ntfs. upon recently acquiring an airport extreme (and wanting to use it as a file server) i formatted all the drives to mac os x journaled format so the AE could recognize it. quite a few files were set to hidden on my windows machine which i can still view but i don't know how to unhide them permanently by changing the file permissions. they all sit in one folder. are there any tools that are available that can do it in a batch? failing that, are there any tools that allow my to do that one by one? right clicking on the folder and clicking on "get info" didn't yield anything of use.

Rofl

Panthers games never sell out apparently. Julie's favorite team is from Montreal and they are in town on a Sunday in March. She keeps talking about hockey so figured I'd surprise her. The box office was what was suggested the night of the game itself but I'll visit them this weekend to find out how things work.

What are decent (albeit inexpensive) seats for a hockey game? Never seen it on TV or live so suggestions would be nice. Is ticketmaster the place the buy them or are they available for better prices elsewhere (at the mall, in person at the box office etc)?

x100, f2, iso 200 either I have the worst luck with af or the zeiss lens really produce some very sharp images. i like it so far.

god damnit. I was hoping it would be prohibitively expensive to make the decision easy.