Today was a day of fun stuff, both high tech (a Skype chat with a dear friend on another continent) and low (a walk/jog with Jane in the park). And both lowbrow (an America's Next Top Model greatest hits show) and highbrow (wait, there wasn't anything highbrow today. Oh well!)
Also I received a birthday present: a wide-angle lens which I bought with all my birthday money. I had one before and adored it, and then after about a year the auto-focus broke. Waah! I had hopes of getting it repaired (as lenses go, it was cheap, but for me it was quite expensive). Then I found out that the brand, Sigma, is known for lenses with cheap auto-focus that breaks. And cost more to repair than replacing the lens. Bummer.
I put off getting a new one for months, but the windfall of birthday money and an impending visit to the Neon Boneyard made it finally worthwhile. This time I got a Tamron, which is wider (11-18mm, the old one was 18-25mm) and lighter. And I hope will last more than a year.
What with the new lens, the transcontinental chat, plus exchanging email with another friend in Mexico and starting to learn Joomla, I feel all high tech today. So where's my rocket car?
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