I find I am on a roll of some kind and I will see how the hill slopes as I go down it.
I took in a small tractor pull the other weekend and had a great time taking pictures of the huffin' and puffin replacements for the horse and discovered Paint Shop Pro's “Time Machine.”
The “Box Camera” really gets my juices flowing now and who knows since I done went out and upgraded my Paint Shop Pro Xi to Corel's ProX2 what I'll be doing. I am supposed to take a survey on how I feel about the software.
Well now, I simply ordered the Box which is not due to be shipped until this upcoming Friday, September 14, 2007. And, so, I downloaded the free trial version so I could take the survey in a timely manner.
I am not so sure the gentleman from Corel will care much about my answer. So far the only thing this “new” PSP really offers is a granite interface which is great but the photo organizer is clunky and the “Express Lab” is largely a clone of Google's Picasa only it has a histogram and such. One great thing though is the trial version works without restrictions; i.e., no watermarks, etc.
Now that my pony season is almost done for the year I can start getting into my other love (besides ponies and children) and this is my photography. I had sworn never to get back into the lens chase and was never going to leave the digital point & shoots. Shute I spent near a grand on a Fuji 602Zoom and this critter did a wonderful job and never did I worry about buying an “Arctic Butterfly.”
I will not now either although I have 5 lenses for my Nikon D50, which seems to be a forgotten model surrounded by D300, D80 and the D40 twins.
I read on the web about the SensorScope and in the deepening gloom of the knowing I had to lock the mirror and do something, why almost anything, I jumped into the darkening void and bought the Delkin System. Hey, it was Labor Day and a 30% discount was part of the deal.
As my luck would have it I navigated all the way through the online buying process and clicked on the final link when I realized I paid full boat.
There was no discount, no nuttin'.
Oh well, what the hell as one of my sons, Matt, was prone to proclaim. My fault.
I did not get a confirmation email from Delkin containing a tracking number nor who was transporting my dSLR vacuum cleaner, Big Brown, USPS or FedEx. I'm a veteran on Ebay so I know about all that. On my favorite bookmarks list I have a folder titled “the searchers” just for those fellas (Pardon Moi Gals).
I emailed the company's support and all of us know what that means, eh!
A few days went by with no reply. I have bought from Delkin before and regularly get their sales propaganda. I'm driving around Seattle when my cell goes off and it was a rep from Delkin. She said they were visited by the famed “Daemon” who told them my email address was invalid. (This is part of an adventure with Yahoo Mail I will talk about later)
She apologized for what wasn't her fault and said a tracking number wasn't needed as it should have arrived by then (it did). I halfheartedly mentioned missing out on the promotional offer. She told me that perhaps indeed the offer was hard to locate (I went back to the promotional email and it wasn't)
In 2 days, the $30 refund of what I'd already paid was in my account.
Thanks Ms. Cheryl Roberts, account executive.
A lot of digression tonight. I started out with huffing and pugging about software and tractors and bingo, I'm into online purchasing.
I am inserting some pictures of the tractor pull I am especially proud of and the one I title “The
Tractor Man” is quite special and I am including the color version. Next post will have more photography and some jibber jabber about Vertus Fluid Mask and Nikon's Capture NX which I'll be delving into this fall of 2007.
