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I'm messing with the camera again, watched a half dozen episodes of Supernatural, hit the bathtub, earlier, with two more various cleaners.  Oh, and I washed, rinsed, and dried the few dirty dishes before hitting the tub.  The tub is coming along, but dang is that thing soaking up some energy.  Closer and closer to clean, now a frosty soft white.  Mostly it looks like layers of dust.  Once I get it clean, I am hoping keep it clean won't be such a fuss.  After doing the dishes I cooked quinoa while steaming fish.  This time, unlike when I made rice recently, I remembered my new containers and pulled one out to store the extra quinoa. 

I am hoping to get back to the living room before long.  For now I am keeping up on things, so the cave isn't caving back in on me.  I do need to get the syrup spot off the carpet first, well and move and arrange things a bit for an easier time when I finally do get the steam vacuum out.  While I am not there, I do many things each day.  When I used to suggest that I got a shower, and maybe dishes done... or did laundry and made coffee?  Yeah, that wasn't a bit of what I did.  Often, that was all that I got done.  I am literally doing, in days, what I did for months earlier this summer. 

I'm not sure about getting out, not right now.  Learning and configuring this camera is beating me up.  The shows, give or take, aren't eating me.  They are simply diversions while I relax after working or thinking too much.  If I have an addiction at the moment, it is the camera.  Bit by bit, it gets arranged, and understood as much as possible.  There is much to go, but not as much as I had thought.  What I really need to do is to see a full explanation of what the various panels show while, or when getting ready, to shoot.  Where is the iso shown, shutter speed, and the rest.  How is it shown.  Some of it, as shown, makes no sense without knowing what it is supposed to say.  It's probably just like most dslrs out there, but it's just been too long since I used one.  Well, and I had only worked up slightly beyond the beginner stage of use.  I could take decent simple pictures with it, nothing more.

My mother called today.  Her Christmas present is in.  A better winter coat.  It fits precisely, and is pleasing.  I hoped it wasn't too warm, but I think it fits the bill.  Color, style, fit... perfect.  I hope.  If she hated the thing, I don't think she would tell me.  It is just like the one I got, but form fit to a woman, and with a girly color.  Dames love those... weird colors.  I do hope she enjoys it, but more that it keeps her warm.  It's warmer, so far, out here.  But where she is, they are getting hard, deep, brutal, cold.  I haven't even had a real chance to break out my new winter coat this year!  Bleh.  Maybe I missed a cold day, or spell, but I can only go by my experience.  Always nice to hear when a gift arrives.  One less thought, or worry, or whatever.

Well... today?  I'll be staying up as long as I can.  Probably just a bit more tinkering on the camera, another three or four episodes, perhaps the last of the quinoa, with butter, salt, and pepper... I remind you, quinoa has full proteins, like meat.  While it isn't filling in the same way, it isn't as lame as rice or some other vegetarian or grain things.  Just a tad bland, even when sorted with butter and the rest.  Ah!  Not enough fat, or fat natural to it.  Butter helps, but doesn't quite fix the dull.  I am hoping, after a sleep period, to get to town.  It'll be late, but I want to get a flash thumb drive so as to get the laptop going, then get photoshop going. 

It seems, with photography today, you have three choices.  You can become a simple photographer, using jpeg (only option in inexpensive cameras), you can be a fussy photographer and try to get your camera and settings just right even while using RAW format, or you can use RAW and do most of your fussing in post-production.  I would like to split between the last two.  The goal, for me, is to take optimal pictures in RAW, using post-production for when that fails.  Jpeg is fine, but post-production work is extremely limited.  You absolutely have to get pretty close or you won't get a photograph.  Choices, and I have chosen.

Ah, well, right.  On to another cup of coffee, the last few menu items for the menu "page" I am on, a few more episodes, then bedtime.  Not sure I will be back.  Enjoy your day, whatever else.