Yesterday RAW went to Indiana to buy himself a 1972 MGB convertible. It is his frivilous toy. I say have fun with it but after you finish the kitchen! He was gone all day! I was begining to wonder what happened to him. He bought the car at 12:30 and he was 2 hours away but he didn’t get home until 9 pm! Because of some issues with the U-haul trailer, he didn’t get on the road until almost 4. Then he took the scenic route as opposed to the tollway, well that is never a good way. He now knows that.
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Today we headed out to some appliance stores for a dishwasher. But first there is something on my car. Apparently someone ketchuped and mustarded my back window. Very weird. I don’t get it. At least they didn’t get RAW’s new MGB. We picked out a new dishwasher and almost a new fridge. Found a lovely french door Maytag model that was on close out so the price was really good. I went home and did research on it and there were strong negative reviews on it so I am staying away.
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I ordered a new lens. I wasn’t really planning on it but Hollace’s 3rd grade teacher wants me to shoot her dog and my favorite lens (50mm f1.4) the autofocus isn’t working 100% of the time, more like 70%. I can’t trust it for this shoot.
It will cost $130-180 to get it fixed. It would cost me $90 to buy a similar (50mm f1.8) –but not as nice–lens brand new. Doing that would be like trashing the f1.4 lens because I would have a 50mm replacement even if it is more plastic-ie. My third option was to buy a 35mm f2.0 lens for $240. Doing that would give me the option if I wanted to fix the 50mm f1.4 evenutally and not have a redundant lens laying around. I have always thought the 50mm was just a bit to close up for me in a lot of cases so hopefully this will be my new walk around lens.
That all said and the money spent, I will probably use the 17-85mm lens so I can have varying focal lengths which will be handy photographing a dog.
What a dirty little trick to justify buying a new lens 😉
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Hollace bought a new Webkinz, a lil-kinz mouse. She is happy with her purchase.