It’s not something I like to do, but it needs to be done
I got it going this morning and got my stuff ready to leave for some shopping. I remembered to put the cooler in the car and plumb forgot to pick up the list I made the other day.
Tried to shoot the bull with the well driller guy
I first stopped at Fisch Bros. Drilling to pay my bill and shoot the bull a bit, but the doors where locked and I remembered the well driller said they’d be off for a couple weeks during Christmas, so I drove off and headed for the local Pep Boys Auto Parts as one of my readers wanted to know what the number of the engine compartment seal I had used on my van and I did remember I bought it there. A guy came by and asked if I needed help so I told him I was looking for this one particular seal they usually had stocked. He took off and came back in a bit and informed me that he couldn’t get the number of the seal and I would have to wait until one came in, so I didn’t do well there.
Costco was busy, but I shopped anyway
Next I went over to Costco. I didn’t really want to go in their store right now with Christmas and all, but I did as I needed some stuff to eat. It wasn’t too bad in there and I got what I wanted and left.
Scratched Walmart and Visited Joe Instead
I wanted to go to Wal-Mart to get a certain ham that isn’t corned in some way, so I drove up to Windsor. After checking out how busy the parking lot was there, I decided I could do without the ham for now and drove on over near the airport to visit with my friend Joe for awhile. We shot the bull for about an hour and then I headed on home and put my groceries away.
Figuring out how to wire the big new oven
Then I got out the big new oven manual installation guide to figure out how much juice and what I needed to hook it up. Of course I didn’t know the model number so I first had to find someone that knew, so I went out the door and my brother’s girl friend just happened to be driving by in a golf cart, so she found the model number for me and I checked out what I need to do to hook it up. She’s a baker and the new oven is for her.
I got the wood in for the night and then it seemed to be nap time.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
