4 June
So, I got my new digital camera a couple of days ago!
It is the most beautiful digital camera that you ever did see, my little Nikon Coolpix 2500 with the swiveling lens. I have been taking picture after picture, it is like discovering the concept of photography for the first time. I am taking pictures of silly things like my own feet, but that's what you do when you have a digital camera.
It has what is called a starter card, but if you keep the resolution low enough, which is just fine for web pages, you can fit over 200 shots on it! Woo-hoo! Plenty of room for pictures of my feet.
Can't show you any of these pictures, unfortunately, as I have found that the software won't run on Windows 98. I think that my laptop might have Windows 2000 (maybe? I think?) and it might run there, but since it's at the office, I don't know.
So someday you will be fortunate enough to see the glory of my feet, and cats, and the dog, and my desk at the office! See, even a professional photographer can become dull as shit when they get themselves a fabulous camera of digitalness!
I am reading the most wonderful book, and I wanted to tell you.
It's called Backstage: Broadway Behind the Curtain, and it's a collection of backstage photographs, so intimate, so close, I cannot imagine how the photographer managed it.
When Melissa and Kate and I went to see Metamorphoses, we went to a Broadway shop, and that book was on the table, and I just gravitated towards it. I saw one picture of Victor Garber in a mirror taken in 1979 when he was doing Sweeney Todd, looking achingly young, and knew that I had to have this book. But not for $35.
How I do love that you can get used items through Amazon, because I found it for $14 including the shipping, and it was brand new! And I've got to tell you, if you are a Broadway fan or a photography fan, you'll love it, and if you are a fan of both, well, you will fall over dead into a heap on the floor.
Okay, wait, that won't make anyone want to buy it, will they? I'll tell you, it's a book that I would give anything to have been able to do myself, it's the kind of work that I do, candids, theatrical stuff, and it is so much better than my work that to me it's like a primer of what is possible when you become really good at making yourself part of the walls.
My new favourite spam lately was amusingly titled: "Help your child excell in math". Though clearly not in spelling. Unless it means that it will help your child do math with spreadsheets.
Lenten entries missed:
Sars...Sars doesn't date anything ever, and I cannot figure out for the life of me what might have been during Lent, so I'll just say that my favourite recent entries have been on The Oscars, The Monkees movie, Head, and what a bunch of bitches junior high girls can be.
Today's
horoscope:
Family finances are in focus. Review the kids' allowances; go over the budget with a spouse; help an aged parent figure expenses, etc.
One year ago today:
If you ever do a search on your name, Barry Bales Barry Bales Barry Bales, I live in New Jersey and I'm free most nights!
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