Pictures ahoy!
I hung out with Carla a bit today but she didn’t have a whole lot of time between the movie she went to see and going to have dinner with her mom so I came over and chilled while she dyed her hair. I think it came out pretty nice and it was nice seeing her. Afterwards I was feeling kind of restless and didn’t really want to go home and sit around so I grabbed my new camera and ran up to Durand Eastman Park and Arboretum in Irondequoit to see if I could take some neat pictures and further stress the battery. When I bought the camera I charged both batteries and loaded up the stock one and started going nuts. I’ve taken nearly 160 pictures and the battery gauge only just went to 1 bar left. I’m pretty impressed with the camera, it remains super easy to use, fairly light and easy to carry around and I am amazed time and again what the image stabilization and the nice zoom lens can do. I’ve got a couple pictures of structures that were literally miles away.
It was also nice to just get out and drive a bit. I’ve been going just to and from work and around town so much lately that it was really relaxing to just hop on the expressway and blast somewhat aimlessly, music up loud and the windows down. Somehow it feels like some of the stress and worry from the last 6 months have started to finally melt away. Hooray for spring. 
So far I have taken 159 pictures with the camera totaling somewhere just under 700MB. I am sure as time goes on I’ll take less and less pictures randomly but none the less the camera is a grand toy to have. The other bonus of having the camera is that I finally have more pictures of Carla and Carla and I together. I think I whined about that a few posts ago and I promptly did something about it. I will admit it makes the separation somewhat easier even if it is a poor substitute to actually spending time with her.
So pictures, all of them are in the gallery. The Durand Eastman pictures are in their own album. There also happen to be pictures of the current condition of my room since I cleaned the house yesterday and am somewhat proud of it.