Random and Odd

Weekend Randomness

Weekend Randomness

You know, it’s pretty bad when my camera follies are the most artistic ones on my blog.

I was going for that effect when I took the picture. Okay, I lie.

It’s the ‘ohh, look the camera has functions other than the ‘auto’ button, let me see what this one does. Oh cool, it makes me look like I forgot to take my Xanax and decided to take pictures!’

I need to see if I can pull out my old camera books and try to figure out what the hell an f/stop does. I use to know how to take pictures. I think ‘digital’ has made me lazy.

Click, Shoot, Crap, Delete.

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Last night I went to the casino to see Peja (Sacramento Kings Basketball Player) and to take some pictures. I lied to get pictures. I was standing there next to one of the casino managers and I pulled out my camera. He said, “I’m sorry, but you can’t take any pictures inside the casino.” I remembered something from one of the million of TV shows I watched with [name removed per request] after an all nighter at Bingo and came up with, “I talked to the Manager back there (I point to the farthest point from where I was) before Peja got here and he said people can take pictures as long as none of the pictures have slot machines in them.” He thought about it and I can see him actually going through every training course in his head he had about Casino Management and he must have remembered something that resembled what I had said because he nodded and let me continue to take pictures.

If by chance that Peja reads my blog, or there is someone out there that knows Peja, please tell him I am REALLY sorry about the flash. I kinda went crazy with the whole picture taking thing because I didn’t know if at some point a person who had actually paid attention during those Casino Management classes came out and took my camera away.
I will post a cute picture of Peja after Shaun lightens them up and makes him look less stoned.

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I am so loving my online life right now. I have a morning ritual. I go to dooce.com, jump over to Rebekah’s page, check out my flickr groups and contacts and then I go check my own blog and see if anyone commented. If they did and they left a link to their blog, I go read their blog and then go and see what updates have happened at dooce. It’s sort of lame, but it beats reading the morning news and getting depressed.

I love my new friend. She’s fantastic and ‘fancy’ too.

and now it’s the weekend and I should be laying on the couch watching a movie with Shaun or maybe taking a shower. Or possibly looking for those photography books.

f/stop for dummies, here I come.