so, yesterday my old co-worker and I went on out annual trip to the pma show.
PMA | PMA 09

all the new stuff, software, and assessories in one big place. plus a chance to talk to talk to the company reps about equipment, troubleshooting etc.

among the things i got this year was a lenscap that doubles as a white balance filter. kinda handy.
I also found out that samsung is planning a dslr/point and shoot hybrid. details were still sketchy but the idea...

This weekend I decided to try an experiment. Magenta, my iguana, has always been very well behaved in my car. she seems to like seeing things go by and the whole travel thing. (and my old iguana used to ride on my arm, while my arm was out the window in my car, on the freeway (not to worry, she was wearing a leash/harness)) well it was Saturday and she was getting restless in her cage. the weather was beautiful outside and it was a good time to take her to the park to run around a bit. I put her...

this week I found the website for my graduating class of high school. I read about all the people that I used to remember, saw how they turned out. I'm kinda feeling as left out as I did in school.
they all seem to have grown up and done things with their lives. (doctors, accountants, etc.) now I realize that I have done things with my life as well, that I'm a project engineer for a precast company, and I have had a hand in making or designing parts for almost every casino facade on the...

ok, so we had a nice storm blow thru nevada this weekend. sustained 40 mph winds led it in. but not before blowing off a chunk of my garage roof surfacing material. so there i was, up on it, in the wind, finding out the hard way that my roof had a weak spot. up to my waist in a new hole. ok. patch that QUICK with some plywood, cover it with some tarp. nail it all down in the wind.
thankfully, it didnt rain until the next day, and it hasnt leaked where i patched it. NOOOOO, it leaked somplace...

yay I finally upgraded.
a friend of mine gave me their old pc. its waaay newer than my old one. 2.6ghz and 760 mb of ram. I was running a 900 mhz machine before.
spent some of my morning with a cup of coffee in hand, formatting and reinstalling windows, pshop, autocad, and swapping in my slave drive. put all my personal files onto the slave and then put them onto the new pc. this time it was EASY. all my files, except programs have one main folder (I call it dave's files), with subfolders...