What a day

Let me take a moment of your time to a little about a not so technological topic. This is the tale of my Christmas Eve. I woke up at 9, after about 4 hours sleep, left the house at 10:30, and walked to meet up with my mother to solidify Christmas plans. Had I stopped here, I would have had a great day, a relaxing one for the most part. Sadly, I did not just go home and wait for my parents to pick me up to go to my sisters. Nope, instead I spent the better part of 3 hours at Portage Place, the larger of the downtown malls, and got only gift bags of candy for my sisters kids and a black printer cartridge to show for it. I hit Payless Shoes for what I had been told was a buy one get one free sale, that turned out to be a buy one get the other half off. They only had one show of the style I wear. The other was misplaced somehow.

That was strike one on my day. The second has two parts. I am trying to get back into frequently posted photography, and I decided to take some pictures. The towers at Portage and Main shrouded in fog. The less than expected crowd at the mall. There was also some I took of the trees. Trees that were the epitome of winter shots, no leaves, covered in a light but clearly visible layer of frost, and they looked beautiful. I also got a few of the current status of the upcoming MTS Center. Well, when I was about done at the mall out of frustration, I went to take one or two more pictures, and I got a message no digital photographer ever wants to see from a card with files on it. 'This card needs formatting'.

I came home, tried in vain to get the pictures off, and realized that the only explainable source is Black's Photography, who could find no pictures were they did previously exist. I then gave up, not having a real card reader, only the camera itself, and formatted. This was followed by some disconcerting green colouring with vertical lines on the LCD display and the inability to take pictures while the card is in the camera. In other words the card is toast. It cannot, I suspect, be revived. Not happy at all. Then, after going over to my parents, their CD drive would not open, and a trip to Polo Park's Payless showed not a single pair of dress shoes in my size under $75. The style I wear is $35. This made me and my mother quite pissed off, though we will try the last Payless on boxing day.

I then did go with my parents and grandparents(they brought their own car) to my sisters to have turkey, goodies, and to swap presents. The night was fun, the kids were as usual brats, and loved their candy for the most part. Ont he way out, though, the voltage light popped on in my parent's car, which meant the entire 1 hour drive was using the car's battery, I am told. Well, about 10 minutes into the hour long trip home, the car's headlights had become noticeably weaker. The radio was turned off to try to spare the power to make it as far as possible, but about 5 minutes later it was obvious that with no street lights on the highway it was unlikely that we would be able to make it back to the city at all, and a minute later the car died. We all piled into my grandparents car, and drove back to the city, and I then got a ride home. Thus ending my Christmas Eve. Bah Humbug.