Scattered Thoughts . . .

B ack a few weeks ago, I wrote about a Black Friday Sale that I couldn't pass up.  A camera I have had my eye on for a few years was finally in my price range as a result of this sale (used, not new) so I jumped on purchasing it.  I happened to luck out because I got a much newer camera than I thought I was getting and it was at a much lower price than the current used rate.  In the end, it was about one-third the price of a new one. Any new camera requires a bit of a learning curve but I didn't expect the learning curve for this new camera to be as steep as I have been experiencing.  This new camera is a much newer and updated version of my primary camera that I've been using for the past ten years (Sony a7) so I figured this transition would be fairly simple.  It hasn't been all that simple. It hasn't been a terrible experience but it has been more of a transition than I expected with some unexpected difficulties. First, I was sorely disappointed in Sony for ...

Overall, since Christmas, my health has been quite lousy to put it mildly. I used up too many "spoons" in the month of December leading up to Christmas. (For those who don't know, a "spoon" is a unit of energy... see  Gift of an Extra Spoon .) As a result of using far too many spoons in December, I am still trying to recover in February. Unfortunately, the end of this recovery period is nowhere in sight at the moment.  I am so exhausted and experiencing such consistently poor health that I'm having great difficulty even thinking clearly. Just writing this short blog entry is taking about four hours of frustrating work. My thoughts jump from topic to topic in just a few short seconds... yes, a few short  seconds.   I am having great difficulty trying to accurately explain... uggg... about five minutes have passed while I struggled to finish that sentence. I suppose that might explain my difficulties fairly accurately. I don't know whether to scream or...