massive update...

Ok, so i haven't been the most talkative, nor updative person this week. my apologies. here's what's been going on.

this past week was my last week at work. it went well enough. i set my anger aside and just rolled with the punches, so whatever. as of yesterday at 3p.m. i was officially free of the corporation, and decided to celebrate by spending way too much money.
before work i dropped about $50 on some stuff i've had on hold for awhile, and a really cool wodden statue that i wanted, because i could still get my 50% discount, and i figured why the hell not.
from there, we went to filmdepot, because it's only the coolest place alive, and i bought some film that i need for class, and i also ended up buying a new strap for my camera (the really cool old style hippie ones) and a camera bag because i was lacking one. that stuff was not cheap. while there i also helped out the shop guy by when looking at their assortment of used camera's, by explaining how the internal light meter on a Minolta XG-1 works. since this is my own personal model of camera, i had recently been on a search to figure this problem out, myself. after posting in a minolta forum, and talking with my professor, it became clear that my first assumptions were right, and that the touch sensitive light meter only works in a certain mode. you first set it to that mode, check the light, and then adjust the aperature and shutter speed. so some guy had apparently gone in and was looking at purchasing this minolta xg-1 that filmdepot had, but couldn't get the light meter to work, so the shop owner (who is this very funny and sweet asian man)had gone ahead and marked it down to $100. now that's an amazing deal on a minolta, and had i not already owned that exact model, i would have snatched it up in a second, but i took the time to explain to him how it works and everything, and he was very thankful, and ended up repricing it for whatever it was originally priced at. i rule :D

from there we went to hobbytown usa off of walnut hill and rob bought some oil or something for his r/c car. then on the way back into town we decided to stop at a different hobby store so that rob could look for some steering linkage that the other store didn't have. luckily these people had it and so he was able to finish his car last nite. it's so freaking fast, it's awesome.

anyway, while we were at filmdepot i was looking for light meters because i don't neccesarily trust the ones on either of my camera's. well, the only ones that they had were analog and didn't seem to be in complete working order, so rob and i talked and decided that i could probably find one online for cheaper and that was digital and working. so here's the thing...cheaper wasn't neccesarily the case. after looking around on a few websites it became obvious that this item is not something you just go "pick up". minolta brands started around $450 and went from there. so i decided to try ebay, because hell, you can find anything there. sure enough, i found a Minolta Auto Meter III with a buy now price of $87.95. so i bought it. i had to create an ebay and paypal account, but alas, just another step towards fully bringing myself into this century. :D the next step? well according to jason, Netflix is my final frontier.

anyway, so that's what's been going on really. booger has a vet appointment tomorrow to get his first round of shots, and maybe to look at getting him declawed, but we'll see about that. rob and i have a dinner to go to tonite which should be interesting. and as for me personally, i am now officially unemployed until my new store is finished being built. it's a bizarre feeling, but kind of freeing also. probably won't be once i run out of cash tho :D