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Sometimes Until Four

Went to the mall to get my watch fixed this evening...It was kind of a failure.  The guy got the broken pin most of the way out, but not all the way.  After I got home, I got it the rest of the way out.  Huzzah!

It is whole again after so many years!

Mamma Don’t Take My Kodachrome

Among all of the cameras that I own, my absolute favorite is a Nikon Nikkormat FS.  I picked it up at Goodwill for $10 because it had an awesome lens on it.  It may have been my first Nikon, I’m a little fuzzy on that point.
Anyway, I bought the thing in the spring or summer of 2011, and used it pretty frequently.  It was, for a long time, the backup for the Minolta SRT-101 that I already owned.  It had a longer lens, and was completely mechanical, so it was a lot more reliable than my Olympus OM-10 that I picked up at a flea market.
I learned so much with those three cameras that summer!
Anyway, when I got it the thing had a light leak due to a rotted out seal. Said light leak is apparent in some of the photos on the linked page.  They are the ones with the bar of overexposure down the right side of the photos.
I cut a piece of weatherstripping off the door of the non-functioning Party Van at work, dug out the rotted out seal and glued the new rubber in it’s place…Problem solved!
Anyway, I never really posted any pictures of the actual camera, so here it is:

I really should take this thing to Robert’s and see if they can clean it out and get it calibrated to the point of like new again.
(From the Wikipedia) The Nikkormat FS, manufactured from 1965 to 1971, was an FT stripped of the built-in light meter with its exposure information system and the mirror lockup feature. The FS was unpopular when new because of the lack of a built-in meter, but this makes it rarer and more valuable than the FTs to collectors today.

As The Sun Burns The Ground

I was thinking today.

I feel like I have lost a large part of myself in the last ten or twelve years.

I don't read anymore.  I listen to audiobooks, but I don't seek out anything new.  The last thing I listened to that was new to me were the Game of Thrones books, but the more I got into them the less I found myself caring about them.

I decided to rectify that today.  I snagged Astrophysics for Busy People, Quantum Physics for Dummies and Astronomy for Dummies from the library.  That should help me feel a little smarter about myself, right?

Lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam!

This week in "Adventures With Spam!"

You can visit the police station but nobody can help you. I dont live in your country. It means they can not catch me even for 8 months. Your system was infected by my malware. I recorded you through your web-cam, when you visited porn-site. Now I have the record of you, touching your intimate parts. During remote desktop connection we copied all your contacts and if you ask me to stay silent you have to pay 450 $ in bitcoin. Use this bitcoin address to pay ( 15BwDDkfPzybLFkNSna46EhF4uQ4Y9spWU ) (something like a credit card number) I give you 28 hours after clicking on this letter for making the transaction. There is no need to write me that you have sent money to me. This address is given only to you, my system will remove everything automatically after payment verification. You can get 48 h only reply on this letter with +. Good luck. Dont forget about the shame.

Thank you Rodrigo Corpuz (probably not your real name, but that of a stolen email identity) for today's little bit of fun, but I say, this doesn't work due to the fact that there is no web-cam attached to any of the computers here!

The Ringwraiths Dressed In Black

Came across this interesting article earlier:

How the Battle for 'Lord of the Rings' Nearly Broke a Director

It was a very interesting read.

Wine And Those Women

Today I spent about an hour and a half sitting in a Starbucks working on my blog.

Consolidating my digital footprint onto one platform is a nightmare!

Anyway, I was listening to the people at the other end of the table.  The girl was being talked to about her performance as a store manager at some fast food chain.  Her biggest problem was that she doesn't understand cash handling.

It made me miss my Arby's days.

Here I Am, Stuck In The Middle With You

To those middle school and high school age guys out there who think learning to sew is a waste of time...Think on this for a minute:
One day you will likely be a father. You will, inevitably, have a young, devastated child come running to you with their best stuffed friend who has sustained some injury and ask you to make their friend better.
You are the one that child will come to when something breaks and needs to be fixed. Saying "We will buy you another just like it and it will be okay." Usually is not good enough.

It is a completely worthwhile skill to have, and your child won't mind a scar, it just gives your child and their best stuffed friend something to bond over.
Blue Bear needed a wire transplant. Guess what...I had to reattach the switch to his paw somehow!
So glad I was able!
Seeing the joy in my son's eyes when he gets his bear back tomorrow will make the last 2 1/2 hours worth it.

So Sad It Had To Come To This

I love that Douglas Adams is now in the same category as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Cervantes and Ray Bradbury! Thank you Southport Library for making my day!