Yeah, well...

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No, I didn't cool off fast enough to get to running the drip line, or sleeping early.  Bleh.  My friend says the weathermen say it is supposed to rain this weekend.  Hmm, we will see.  I wouldn't mind, I can work in the little rain we might get, and even with no rain just having it cloudy would cool things off bigtime.  Yeah, I could live with that.  I just won't believe it until I see it.

I didn't completely quit though.  I found a tutorial for the camera on YouTube.  I didn't care much for the presenter, but after finding nothing else I took what I could get.  Whatever about him that annoys me was set aside by the fact that he is thorough, accurate, and seems well informed.  I've set up my camera based on his recommendations, for the moment.  I will have to take literally hundreds of pictures in each situation to be able to eventually make up my own mind, or understand more fully what the various options really do, when to use them, and figure out how to get to them fast enough in some situations to make them worth the time.  For now, landscapes and portraits are the focus.  Well, and some macro shots for flowers and fruits and such, perhaps.  I've watched three of them, about 20 minutes per.  I will probably watch them again.  The battery was charging while I was watching, so I didn't have a way to replicate his notions, and I probably won't try with all of the situations.  Probably.

Of course, I also ran into another problem.  My usb ports aren't accepting the DVD player.  I'm not exactly sure what the problem is.  I tried to have XP hunt and peck for drivers but that doesn't work at all.  This system isn't exactly... top of the line.  And XP, Windows in general, has never worked well at finding new drivers, checking current drivers, or anything.  It's always, in my experience, a personal hunt and peck.  Of course even knowing what drivers are needed is an epic struggle.  Bleh...  It's something to do in between doing real work, if I can get to it.

Tomorrow, between working if I can get to it, though, I will be trying to figure out how to port the pictures from the camera to the computer.  I know how to get them to the blog from there.  It's probably a simple thing.  Unless, of course, the usb plugs decide not to work with the camera either.  They work with some things, not with others.  Quite frustrating.  All of the stuff they are working with are relatively new tech, just like the stuff they aren't working with.  It's a tech crap sandwich if you ask me.  Which you didn't, but I'm here to do your dirty work!  :p

Later, or probably good night.  Yeah.