Camera Cretins
Creve Coeur Camera has managed to earn my ire. My Canon Powershot G1 suddenly decided that it couldn't be charged up again. We took it to these so-called camera experts, who took a passing glance at it and then told us rather snubbishly that they didn't have any diagnostic equipment to find out what the problem actually was (bad charger? bad battery? bad circuitry within the camera unit itself?). They did, however, have the cajones to try and sell us an external battery charger for a mere $75. No diagnostic equipment? In a premier camera repair and sales shop? Do I look stupid to you?
Being completely and insanely livid by this point, we went home. Doug took the whole thing downstairs and started tinkering with it, and wouldn't you know, he got it to start working again. Gee, and without any diagnostic equipment, either. Imagine.
Tomorrow is Lauren's birthday...I was in some considerable labor three years ago! (It took about 30 hours with David, and about five with Lauren. All of that includes very light labor, when you're wondering if this is it or not. I suppose another kid would take about 20 minutes if we followed the trend!)
We're not having a party until the day after Thanksgiving, and we're feeling like we should do something for her tomorrow. We're just not sure what! I'm thinking something like taking her out for ice cream for breakfast, stuff like that.
We took Lauren to the video store tonight for the video of her choosing. She decided on The Last Unicorn. The girl is a bit of a horse freak...I don't know if she'll be a unicorn freak or not.
In school today we covered Russia. This meant reading a tiny bit about the country, finding it on the map, and reading a story about the famous Faberge eggs. Then we printed out some eggs and painted them, and Grandma just so happened to have brought along a small cache of pom-poms, heart stickers, colored feathers and a glitter pen. So we had REALLY fancy eggs!! Tomorrow we finish up with Italy, and then move on to the African continent. David is aching to do Africa, so we're going to have to circle back around to Asia later.
Being completely and insanely livid by this point, we went home. Doug took the whole thing downstairs and started tinkering with it, and wouldn't you know, he got it to start working again. Gee, and without any diagnostic equipment, either. Imagine.
Tomorrow is Lauren's birthday...I was in some considerable labor three years ago! (It took about 30 hours with David, and about five with Lauren. All of that includes very light labor, when you're wondering if this is it or not. I suppose another kid would take about 20 minutes if we followed the trend!)
We're not having a party until the day after Thanksgiving, and we're feeling like we should do something for her tomorrow. We're just not sure what! I'm thinking something like taking her out for ice cream for breakfast, stuff like that.
We took Lauren to the video store tonight for the video of her choosing. She decided on The Last Unicorn. The girl is a bit of a horse freak...I don't know if she'll be a unicorn freak or not.
In school today we covered Russia. This meant reading a tiny bit about the country, finding it on the map, and reading a story about the famous Faberge eggs. Then we printed out some eggs and painted them, and Grandma just so happened to have brought along a small cache of pom-poms, heart stickers, colored feathers and a glitter pen. So we had REALLY fancy eggs!! Tomorrow we finish up with Italy, and then move on to the African continent. David is aching to do Africa, so we're going to have to circle back around to Asia later.
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