Thursday, June 30, 2005

Oh happy day (sarcastically speaking)

Okay, the flood in the studio doesn't really bother me. We didn't lose any important equipment and it wouldn't be mine anyway. Maybe I'm not as loyal to the office as I should be, eh? Some times I'm just too apathetic.

I left the office around 6 or 6:30. The package I've been waiting for was waiting for me when I got home. It contained two fast hard drives and a hard drive controller card. I won't go into the details but I can't set it up the way I intended to and that's very annoying. I sent an email to the tech support of the card manufacturer but I don't expect much.

We were going to work on the color effects for the short film that's been stalled for a while. We're getting close to finishing it, but we have been for quite a while now. Anyway, in order to get a better idea of the coloring I want to see it on a video monitor. The way I can do that by hooking my video camera up to the computer's firewire port. The computer's case has a firewire port on the top that I didn't hook up until recently because I didn't have the right connection inside the computer. I got a different firewire card that has what i thought was the right connector. Apparently it wasn't because after plugging my camera into it, the firewire connection on the camera no longer works. I broke my camcorder. It was an expensive camcorder and I plugged it into something I wasn't sure was wired right. How stupid is that? If I decide to get it fixed I guess It'll just be another $300 "stupidity tax."

argh

Tomorrow I intend to spend $300 on a digital camera. It's used so I'll have to check it out and make sure it's worth it still. If it's in good condition that's a good price. I'll still have to get a lens for it and memory cards and maybe a few other accessories, but it was a $2000 camera body when it came out a few years ago.

ugh. I just can't hold on to money at the moment.

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