A new desk, a crappy webcam, and a dead camera
Well, I build a desk last fall & it’s been sitting in our shed awaiting paint since then. I finally got around to painting it a couple weeks ago & I put the last layer of clear-coat on it this last weekend.
Last night, I wrangled it in the house & cleaned out enough space to get it in the office (which if you’ve been to our house, you know the cleaning out part was the hardest part of it all since out office is our unofficial junk room at the moment.)
When I re-hooked up the computer & all it’s peripherals, I also hooked up one of my old (and admittedly cheap & crappy) webcams. I decided it would be fun to put up a “current” shot ever now & then, so it’s over in the side-bar (if you’re Feeding my blog, you’d have to swing by to see). It’s nothing new, big, exciting, or even interesting, but it’s something I’ll update (hopefully) regularly.
Oh, I forgot to mention… Our poor point-&-shoot camera died… The last time I took some pics, it was fine. Nothing out of the ordinary happened. but when I picked it up next, it opened the lense (like usual, but then it made a noise you should never hear from a camera. Kind of like a mix between an old man’s grumble and an old alarm clock buzzer. (Go ahead, try to simulate those noises, then picture that coming out of your little camera).
This camera has served us well. It’s a Canon Powershot SD550 & we’ve been using it for pics for 2 years, and really started doing a lot of videos on it (VGA resolution) over the last year. Most of the pictures on this site since 2007 were taken on this camera & I’m starting to feel a little withdrawl. It’s not so easy to quickly snap a picture or catch a quick clip of the boys in action now.
I’ll try to see if we can get it fixed, but with the cost of cameras these days, I’m not very hopeful that it can be fixed for less than the cost of a new one. (Oh darn, I might have to buy a new camera…) Money’s a little tight these days, so I’m not really sure what I’m going to do. We’ll see.
Date posted: Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 7:28 AM | Under category: Uncategorized
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Hey don’t forget the discount with Sony on the one I got from my company discount. Congrats on getting the desk finally in there. Talk to you later.
I don’t know if you all remember, a while back I mentioned I got a new webcam and it came with a free one. I wanted to know if you were all interested. Well, I will bring it over.
It is a Labtec webcam 1200–CIF 352×288, VGA 640×480. Mic not included. If you need one let me know by texting my phone, I have an old one from my Creative webcam it is a separate mic that has USB connection.
That can help with: “one of my old (and admittedly cheap & crappy) webcams.”
I love you sweetheart, Mom
PS(by the way–good pic of you and the little one)
Well… It looks like my kidding around has got a lot of people thinking that I’m complaining about things…
Sorry about that. I’ve got an odd sense of humor & was really just commenting on my cheapness (I bought that “crappy webcam” online for about $2.)
Anyhow, the only purpose of even mentioning the webcam was to call attention the snapshot over in the sidebar.
Oh well… I’ll try to be a little more transparent in the future.
Boog,
I never felt or thought you were complaining. I only know that I had something brand new that I received free with a webcam I purchased recently. So, I wanted to give it to you quite sometime ago. By the way did the webcam wind up being better or ???? than what you already have.
And, you have the right to voice whatever you wish on your website–good or bad. Prayerfully, those that read this know your sense of humor. I do.
By the way–your DESK is awesome . It is beautiful, you did a GREAT job. I really like it.
I love you. I only quoted what you wrote because I thought I could help. Have a fantastic Friday. Mom