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Back!

Back from the New Year celebration. The A95 is great, I’m already thinking of selling my Fuji S2 Pro because I can’t get same results as fast as I do from the pocket camera… Sometimes you just have to whip the camera and take a picture… with A95 it takes 5 – 10 seconds to power up camera plus the shutter lag. With S2 Pro it takes around 2 seconds to power up and take the picture, only the picture would be either over exposed or something else or I don’t know what… Thinking of trying Canon 20D for that matter, maybe Canon, after all, IS BETTER then the Nikon? 🙂

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Programmers

Sometimes some people can set me off, even though I am very patient and calm person. First they didn’t like the project. Then they didn’t like the terms. Then they didn’t like the payment amount. Then they didn’t like the payment time frame.

Had to give in to the last resort – mentioning that they are not the only developers around. Worked like a charm.

My girlfriend finally gave me my 3-year-aniversary gift, the Canon A95. It’s small, cute and 5 megapixels. It’s so convenient, I plan to take it everywhere now… If only it was a little faster, the shutter lag is humongous… But then again – it produces images with great quality, so if there’s a need to show a designer how an establishment looks like – there’s nothing better then this. And it’s not as heavy as my other camera (Fujifilm S2 Pro, weights around 2 lbs.), so it’s really a pocket wonder.

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Pretty hard to run a shop when you’re half-blind

Well, that’s what happens when you get a corneal abrasion. In simple words – scratch on the surface of the eye. Painful as it is, the eye gets red, the area around gets red, like you got a punch in a face, you can hardly open the eye, bright light hurts, pretty much all you can do is lay on the bed with your eyes closed and wipe the tears. Actually, after time that gets painful too, because the eye is built in such a way that it supplies tears to damaged zone for as long as it hurts. And that means at least two days. So after two days wiping the area around the eye gets red hot. Ah…

Sad thing is when you can’t get to work you slightly loosing grasp on things. Recovery is not only painful (since you have to put various drops and some of them hurt too), it’s also stressful, when you find out that designer went to vacation without letting you know, programmers were celerating some weird russian holiday and messed up with code, clients worried about their web sites are gone head hunting. It’s a shitty thing, when you get sick for five days. I can only imagine what happen to other people who got drafted to do an army tour (that’s 12 months). They had to shut down their business and start from the scratch upon return.