Work-around

I do not want to bring my computer on vacation. For me, the risk isn’t worth it and it’s more of a vacation without it. This presents an obstacle insofar as getting pictures from my Nikon D7000 to my phone is concerned. Fortunately, I have a work-around. The D7000 has two memory card slots. I…

Testing the camera

This phone came with a 3MP camera, which is a real challenge to do anything meaningful with. As you can see above, 3MP is small. The quality of this phone cam really makes it not worth bothering with, in my mind. Thought it might be fun to try, though, as getting photos online while off-grid…

Bedevilled by details

I firmly believe that organizing summer vacations ought to come with a training course. Boot camp, if you will. Day after day of physical and verbal exercises combined with courses such as Basic Multi-Event Planning for Wildly Divergent Individuals 101; Manipulating Childish Whims (basic and advanced); Finding Things & Hiding Things; Lists, Lists, Lists; What…

A truce

I’m not someone who wants to be at the beck and call of a smartphone at all, but I now have one, nonetheless. We needed a,second cellphone in the family,for while I’m gone and I wanted one with a real keyboard so that communication with John would be,easier. I also was reluctant to leave this…

Running (around with) The Goat(s), Part 2: Visiting The Feather

We didn’t expect the goats. Then again, goats are nothing if not unexpected (is that a triple negative or a double?). We had been warned that The Feather was community grazing land and that there were sheep, attack horses and possibly stink-eyed bulls roaming around, but nothing was said about goats. Things were said about…