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The end of the branch
Mar. 7th, 2010 06:48 amIt's painful, but the door is closed. I will no longer post to LiveJournal. The latest scandal concerning the unannounced and surreptitious actions of LJ management was the last straw for me. I may use OpenID to comment on postings of friends there, but my own LJ account is now frozen. For better or worse, all old postings and comments are being imported from LJ to DreamWidth, which is probably not a perfect process but seems pretty sophisticated.
I have another money spending confession, though this actually amounts to spending money in the future. I have been wanting a digital camera for some time. Gary has one that I bought him years ago, and it's still quite usable and does a good job, but we can't both use it at the same time. It's also fairly large (about the size of a typical 35mm SLR) and I find it too bulky and heavy to carry around as a matter of course.
I've been looking for about six months for something smaller and lighter, lower in price but at least equally capable as that older Olympus. Budgetary constraint is what held me back. I wanted to spend less than $90 if possible. At Sam's Club yesterday I browsed the cameras on display as I have been doing every time we went there. They had a Kodak EasyShare for $79, first time I've seen one that low. It looked promising, but I remembered that I also had a coupon offer through Cafe Gevalia for 15% off on anything at Kodak's own website, so I waited to check.
Turns out that the Sam's Club model is a discontinued item on closeout. Kodak was offering the new camera that would replace it for the same price but it won't be available until April. By pre-ordering now, you could get free shipping. Sure enough, the 15% off worked, bringing the price of the new model down to $76 with free shipping. Yay, bargain. I bit on it. Technically I didn't spend money yet. They will charge me when it actually ships some time in early April. I'll be able to get all the reference photos I want without borrowing Gary's camera. Sometimes it pays to be patient.
I have another money spending confession, though this actually amounts to spending money in the future. I have been wanting a digital camera for some time. Gary has one that I bought him years ago, and it's still quite usable and does a good job, but we can't both use it at the same time. It's also fairly large (about the size of a typical 35mm SLR) and I find it too bulky and heavy to carry around as a matter of course.
I've been looking for about six months for something smaller and lighter, lower in price but at least equally capable as that older Olympus. Budgetary constraint is what held me back. I wanted to spend less than $90 if possible. At Sam's Club yesterday I browsed the cameras on display as I have been doing every time we went there. They had a Kodak EasyShare for $79, first time I've seen one that low. It looked promising, but I remembered that I also had a coupon offer through Cafe Gevalia for 15% off on anything at Kodak's own website, so I waited to check.
Turns out that the Sam's Club model is a discontinued item on closeout. Kodak was offering the new camera that would replace it for the same price but it won't be available until April. By pre-ordering now, you could get free shipping. Sure enough, the 15% off worked, bringing the price of the new model down to $76 with free shipping. Yay, bargain. I bit on it. Technically I didn't spend money yet. They will charge me when it actually ships some time in early April. I'll be able to get all the reference photos I want without borrowing Gary's camera. Sometimes it pays to be patient.
