Erk

It would seem I just had a mild fit of Eppalepsy and bought a new camera. My digital camera is, basically, fucked ...no it's not the second coming of Jesus, that's me glowing in that rather disturbing electric way. The camera was never much good, and things have gone from bad to worse with it. Things are so bad that I've decided to get a simple cheap point'n'shoot camera to last me until I leave Uni (so that I can at least take photos on nights out and what-not) and I mentioned this in #llamasoft.

One of the llamasofties mentioned that they had a Canon Ixus II (APS) that they wanted rid of. They didn't rate it very highly, but they assured me it gave better quality pictures than my current camera and the battery life is good. So I bought it. £20 with a fresh roll of film in it, charged batteries, manual, leather carry case and all. And there it is I am told that it will be in the post first thing tomorrow, so I can expect to see it in the next 1-3 days. Woo!

It sounds quite nice to me, even if the picture quality isn't anything special. The APS system means that it can store the date of your pictures on the film in a way that doesn't affect your pictures, and that date can then be printed on the back of your prints. There's no faffing when inserting films, they just slot straight in. If you want to put a different film in halfway through a roll (say you need a different speed film) you can pop the current cartridge out and put the new one in, even midway through a roll. Then you can put the half-used one back in and the camera winds itself back on to where you left off, all automagically.

Yes I know it's sad that I'm getting excited over a camera, but it's been a long time since I had a working camera and I'm looking forward to being able to take some interesting photos. If I could afford a decent digital camera then I'd get one. If I could afford a decent SLR camera then I'd get one. But I can't. So £20 for a camera that does all I need it to do is a bargain in my opinion :)

In other news I've managed to break Unreal Tournament and it doesn't want to reinstall. Bastard thing.

Oh yeah, and in other other news my car is in Kwik Fit at the moment. I dropped it off after work to get the front-right tyre sorted out, but they weren't able to do anything with it until the morning so I left it there. I left the keys and started wandering down the road. My minds was flittering all over the place, mainly wondering what to do when I got back. In my mind's eye I could see myself at the front door, unlocking it...walking in...going to the kitchen to get food... Then it jumped back to the front door...unlocking it...going in... Back to the front door...unlocking it...unlocking it...unlocking...key... FUCK!

I legged it back to the garage to take my house key OFF my car keys and then left. This time I was lucky, they hadn't yet closed. Close call though.