Getting into photography

So my wife wanted a nice camera. Something to take good portraits of the baby and to take good outdoor shots. Something much nicer than your average point and click digital camera you get for $100 at Wal-mart. We ended up with a Nikon D90. Let's just say it cost waaaayyy more than $100.

I'm learning to take pictures with it also. (I'm the tech minded one of the family so my job is to learn how it works and then teach her! LOL) Here are a few of the shots I've taken with it so far.

Not Perfect

A song by Tim Minchin. It's not religious or anti-religious, just a very good song with a hint of humor. But mostly I find myself thinking, "Yeah. That's how it feels sometimes."

Game Review - Puzzle Quest (DS)

I am by no means a video gamer. At least not an avid one. My video game upbringing was the venerable Atari 2600 aaaaand…. That’s pretty much it. I played several PC games in the 90’s and dabbled on a friend’s NES in the late 80’s/early 90’s. Played WWF WarZone with some pals on a PS1 a few times. That’s it though. Pretty lame right?

A few years ago I finally picked up a PS2 and played a few games here and there on that. But I haven’t been the type to just sit down and play a game for hours and hours on end for many, many years. I used to joke that my house was the House of Archaic Console Systems (HOACS) because I didn’t own a single system that was the current system by any manufacturer. I got a PS2 after the PS3 debuted and the price dropped a good bit. That was the newest. We still have an NES system and a 2600 right next to the PS2.

But shortly before Gwen was born, Steph asked for a Nintendo DS to play games with during what we assumed would be some long stretches of nothing happening in the hospital. Aw, man! The DS is still the current system in Nintendo handhelds! I can’t be archaic anymore!!

*sigh* No time for hobbies

So right now I have three home recording related projects that I just don't have time to work on right now. One is an audition for a friend's comic book based audio drama. Another is a project where three friend's sent me some random audio/music clips that conformed to a particular tempo and key but nobody has heard anything else the others did. My job is to edit it all into something new and hopefully interesting. And there is my own writing/recording that I have been trying to get working on again after nearly a decade off.

Right now though, (and probably into the fall unless something changes) I am the one responsible for taking Gwen to the sitter's everyday before I go to work. I had thought this was only going to be a temporary change for a few weeks, but it has become a more permanent change to the schedule.