We’re now on vacation, and enjoying what appears to be more favorable weather than my house is currently experiencing. Of course, my house is better off than most of the country, at least until the next earthquake or fire pops up. The girls had a delightful Christmas and have generally been enjoying themselves. I’ve mostly been eating and watching football, so I suppose I haven’t much to complain about, which is bound to make this an uninteresting blog post.

Since obtaining network access, though, I have managed to check in on work, and I can see that I’m either going to have to put in a day somewhere or really have a miserable time when I get back into the office. Or possibly both. It’s really unfortunate to have these deadlines laying about during the holidays, but I suppose it’s the nature of the business. Mostly, though, I am eagerly awaiting the inevitable news that will be coming forth from Canon that a new full-frame camera will soon be available, and I will buy that camera and be truly happy for upwards of several days. The camera will have a 3″ LCD, and a 20 shot RAW buffer and have truly usable ISO 3200 and a nice large viewfinder, and the rest really truly doesn’t matter except that it will be in my hot little hands by mid-April. The price I’m not really sure about at this point, because it’s going to depend on what “other stuff” that the marketing department decided to throw into the mix. I’ve also been shopping for an HDTV, but I really need to see what happens with Canon first. Not because of the money so much as that if I get the new camera, who needs to watch TV anyways?

On the subject of limiting stimuli, I’ve been pruning my blog subscriptions and flickr contacts of late. There’s just too much out there for someone with my attention span. I’m still waiting for flickr to start turning on itself because it really become much more interesting then.

Last, I thought I would mention that we purchased a new eStarling photo frame for the in-laws, and my review is simply this: it does not, as advertised, understand RSS and email and all the whizzy stuff on the package. Rather, eStarling’s web site does all this, and the photo frame understands their single web site. If that web site is down or overwhelmed because everyone and their in-laws got the same photo frame, or if the company goes under, then you have a $250 version of what everyone else sells for $100.