It’s been a good couple of days.

I have my camera back. Or more precisely: I have a better camera back. Yup. Let me recap my camera saga:

I buy my new camera. After one month it breaks. The zoom is inoperational. I give it back to the store, they send it out for repairs. Two months go by. I go to the store and demand something happen. The guy I talk to says that the service center is closed for the day but he promises that he will get back to me tomorrow with a final decision about what will happen. The next day he leaves a message on our answerphone. They’ll give me a new camera.

So yesterday I go to the store. The service guy apologises for the whole thing. He fixes the paperwork and calls for a sales guy so I can get me a new camera. And then he says that this time I better buy the extra insurance, because If I had had that then none of this would have happened. Man, that made me want to tell him off. The camera was faulty and it took them two months to decide that they couldn’t fix it. Sure, if I had gotten the insurance then they probably would have given me a new camera right away. But really, 2 months is unacceptable. And the guy I talked to back then was going to give me a new camera straight away anyway, they just didn’t have any left in the store. So trying to sell me extra insurance because of their own mistakes and their own faulty camera, that pisses me off. But I bit my tongue, didn’t feel like arguing with them. And I declined the insurance. I have never bought extra insurance for anything I have bought. Computers, TVs, DVDs, cameras. None. And I have never regretted it. Maybe one day I will find myself needing the insurance. But then I will just spend some of all that money I have saved over the years. Those extra insurances are usually bogus anyway. The clerk makes comission of them, that’s why they’re so eager for you to buy them. Not because they care. Sniff, whatever happened to caring?

So anyway. The sales clerk takes me to their big camera collection. I tell him that I want the same model, the colour doesn’t matter but I want the same camera type. He had thought I just wanted a new camera. Not the same. So he has to check their computer system to see if they have any Konica Minolta DiMage Z3’s left. He wasn’t sure. But then he decides to check their display case. There’s no Z3. But there’s a Z5. It’s basically the same camera, only with a slightly bigger LCD screen and 5 megapixels instead of 4. Funny thing is, in the three months that have passed since I bought the Z3, it has fallen in price. And the Z5 has fallen in price too. To the price that the Z3 used to be. So voila, they give me a Z5 instead. I had to take the camera they had in their display case though, that was the last one left. But I don’t mind that.

So that’s how it ended. I now have a swanky DiMage Z5. I am happy about that. Was it worth it? Waiting for the camera for 2 months to get a better model? I think so. Mainly because I had my old camera and was happy with that. If they DiMage had been my only camera then it would have been a loooong 2 months. But the only time I really could have needed my new camera was at the Tina Dickow signing session. I would have liked to make a good quality video clip there. But other than that my old camera has been perfectly adequate.

So all is swell that ends well. 5 Megapixels, 12x zoom, high quality video with audio. That’s good stuff.

There is more good news. I went to the doctor yesterday and I’m going to have surgery in two weeks! Hah. Yes. I have hinted at it before. It’s something that’s hard to talk about for me. But now that the surgery is scheduled (and soon!) I guess it’s almost time. I will probably do it tomorrow or Sunday. So don’t miss that. My future may well depend on it. More or less.

In other possibly good news, I seem to be able to maybe get a ticket for the neighbourhood Tina Dickow concert. That would be astounding. Only thing is, my surgery is on the 7th and the concert is the 11th. But I can always stand in the back and not jump around wildly. I oughta be able to make it. I really want to go. How many chances are you going to get to see a great artist come home and play in their old neighbourhood and then also have it be your own old neighbourhood? I don’t think that happens too often. So I must try. I’ll call the doc on Monday and see what they recommend.

Also, I wish season 2 of Lost would start soon. I want to know what’s in the hatch. I want to know what’s in the hatch I want to know what’s in the hatch I want to know what’s in the hatch.

Sorry. But I reeeeally want to know.

I just overheard my mother talking to her brother on the phone. “Do you know what I’m sucking on now?” she said. *shudder*. Okay, she was talking about bonbons. But still. That’s something you should never ever hear your mother say. My mother is a Freudian nightmare. She still pronounces hard disk as hard diks. And yes, as I said in my previous update, she’s reading my site now. So hi mum!

Let’s break in the new camera with some playground pictures, shall we? You probably can’t tell the difference from old cam hah. I’m going to try and learn how to use this one properly. There’s nothing as fun as reading instruction manuals!

My favourite subject. Adorable Magnethe.

And just because Mads makes me happy…

Finally, ducks on the run.

I can’t update my gallery. Annoying. It’s most likely because of that servermove my host did. It was fine before that. I guess this would be a good time to change over to coppermine.

Anyway, happy weekend to you all.

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