Flickr Addiction…

I have a problem…It’s not like I tried to hide it. Everyone that knows me knows I have a ‘picture’ problem. Everything in my head is a picture.

It has been like that since 1991 when my Dad handed me his Minolta SLR camera and I hit the shudder button.

Many years ago when I started playing on the web and someone sent me one of those emails where you talk about your favorite things one of the questions was: “What’s your favorite sound?”
I put, “The sound my camera makes when I take a picture.”

After many happy years of using that camera, it broke. It might have been Kara picking it up and dropping it, but i’m not certain.
I then switched to the Nikon that came with the ex in our marriage deal. I look back and realize I took it for granted, the camera (and the ex). I could have really taken some good pictures with it, but I didn’t like it because it was so heavy and bulky. (much like my marriage)

I actually went a couple of years without taking pictures. I was too busy with the new video camera I thought was the best thing in the whole world.
Then Digital Cameras came into the mix and I was NOT impressed. I will be the first to admit that I didn’t jump on the ‘digital’ train. Not because I was a picture snob, but because I couldn’t develop them. How do I get the pictures out of the camera and into my photo albums?

LAME. This whole digital camera thing WON’T last.

I also thought the band,”Europe” was going to be bigger than “Journey”.

Just so you all know. Yes…I’m a geek…but I’m the stupidest geek you’ll ever know. I’m also lazy. I like what I like because I know how to use it.

I don’t have a Mac. I don’t have an Ipod. I don’t do the satelight radio. I don’t have a laptop and there are no wireless modems in my house. I just got a Tivo and flat panel computer screen.

It’s sick how I am more proud of this Flickr badge than I am of 2 years worth of college and certificates in networking security.

I really should just hand back my degree. It’s not like I am paying my student loans anyway. I’ll just take a picture of it before I do that.