Random Thread - May 2009

**Gem** · 05-20-2009, 11:02 PM

It snowed like crazy yesterday!

**Barefoot** · 05-20-2009, 11:32 PM

Originally Posted by Gem

It snowed like crazy yesterday!

Hmmm, that’s a bummer. Peaches and plumbs are getting ripe, song birds are starting their second broods, humming birds at the feeder, and the kids are swimming.

No snow in the forecast here.

**MoinMoin** · 05-21-2009, 01:37 AM

No weather news here - I only see dust

. This is our work during our holidays.

**AntZ** · 05-21-2009, 02:50 AM

Lots of weather here. We had 1/3 of our annual rainfall in less than 24hrs yesterday!!!! I didn't get any pics, but MA does.

**F8&Bthere** · 05-27-2009, 08:05 PM

My random thought for this week (or is this only a what's your weather thread?)...
I need a new computer, my AMD 64 X2 3800 with 2 gb RAM and 256 mb dedicated video is sucking so bad for image processing/sorting/editing. I just don't have the patience for that click and wait game. Almost everything I do in Lightroom 2.2 is verging on freezing the program. I could upgrade RAM but why bother when processor is so slow?
I'm drooling over a Dell i7 Studio XPS desktop with like 6 - 8 gb RAM and their 24" Ultrasharp Monitor. With current promotional discounts about CA$1500. But I lost a big sale last week and have to punish myself with restraint. Must... stop... spending... money... on... photography... stuff

**casil403** · 05-27-2009, 08:51 PM

Originally Posted by F8&Bthere

Must... stop... spending... money... on... photography... stuff

Oh I hear you there....I can't walk past The Camera Store anymore without dropping at least $100...funny it used to be Mountain Equipment Co-op that was my Achilles heel now I can walk past there no problem and it's only1 block from TCS.
Anybody else have stores like that? Y'know, those stores that beg and call you and you can't walk in then out without a bag of stuff and lighter wallet?
My other one is IKEA

**Greg_Nuspel** · 05-27-2009, 09:04 PM

I can't walk past MEC, The Camera Store, Memory Express, K&W Audio, any record swap,......damn I best stay home :-)

**F8&Bthere** · 05-27-2009, 09:55 PM

Well one thing that helps the impulse buying urges...and forgive me for ranting all negative again here...is that so many stores- not just photo/electronic- are so poorly run they rarely have what I want in stock. Are you listening Vistek, home of no monopod heads? And how about you Home Depot? Not one of 5 different advertised garden sprayers in stock in spring? Canadian Tire? Not a single kids sled or decent snow shovel in stock in the first month of winter? Hell-o? One Home Depot clerk told me the manufacturers only give them so much....hmmmm, yeah we're in a major economic recession so I guess they want to horde inventory or limit sales.