spacekadet

Say again?
Originally uploaded by spacekadet.

I'm very tired. The night before my flight to Chicago, I managed about 4 hours of sleep... a bottle of wine tends to do that to me, but it was my last night in London, and I wanted to take my man out for a tasty farewell dinner at the Northgate, so what's a little lost sleep? The flight to Chi was long, but decent. The flight was half-full and I had two seats to myself. I finished Catch-22 and worked on a bit of that novel that has no chance of hitting 50,000 words by the end of this month but it's the ride that counts (isn't it?). Wouldn't you know it, weather was rough Chicago-side, and I was stuck in Detroit for a few hours. But again, what can you do but grab a box of airport sushi and a window seat? (Aside: Detroit's airport is lovely - water fountains, and an impressive electric train system running right through the terminal!). Once I did find a flight to Chi, I arrived to find that my checked luggage didn't make it with me. So much for my toothbrush and clean underwear. But my ride was waiting for me outside! Thanks, dad! And boy was I ever ready to be home.

Though my luggage was late, my newest gift to myself was not: my Canon Rebel XTi 10.1 mpx digital SLR arrived before I did. But I was too tired to play with it, so I went to sleep, only to wake up 4 hours later at the wee hour of 6am, feeling a bit like a kid on Christmas morning, anxious to open my presents.

So I'm tired again, but I think I've got some Christmas joy out of my system. I took a bunch of shots today, some at American Science and Surplus, one of the coolest stores ever. A few initial thoughts:

- I love the feel of a "serious camera"
- Even with my el cheapo CF card, the continuous shooting mode is fast and furious
- My lens is a Canon 50mm/f1.8 II, which takes nice pictures but I'm still getting used to it... it's not nearly as wide as my Canon s50, and in Auto or 'P' mode, it tends to take shots with a very small depth of field. This reminds me
- I need to become well acquainted with the camera's manual setting

But it's fun and wonderful and I'm really happy I bought this thing. And now I'm really tired.