{"id":264,"date":"2008-08-04T00:33:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T04:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swardraws.com\/chatter\/?p=264"},"modified":"2008-08-04T00:33:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T04:33:10","slug":"purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/2008\/08\/purchases\/","title":{"rendered":"Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t get home until 9 pm! Because of some issues with the U-haul trailer, he didn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t get it. At least they didn&#8217;t get RAW&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>I ordered a new lens. I wasn&#8217;t really planning on it but Hollace&#8217;s 3rd grade teacher wants me to shoot her dog and my favorite lens (50mm f1.4) the autofocus isn&#8217;t working 100% of the time, more like 70%. I can&#8217;t trust it for this shoot.<\/p>\n<p>It will cost $130-180 to get it fixed. It would cost me $90 to buy a similar (50mm f1.8) &#8211;but not as nice&#8211;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>What a dirty little trick to justify buying a new lens \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Hollace bought a new Webkinz, a lil-kinz mouse. She is happy with her purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/2008\/08\/purchases\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}