May 10, 2008 New Ship Of Thieves...May 2008 Repo Thread...Part 5

[Tink rules]

ok now on to which powershot to get.....I am doing the side by side comparisons...but have no clue how many megapixels I need....and ??

V...

I just got the PS A570 - nice camera... easy to use... 7 MP...

That said I'm probably getting the S5 before the cruise and will bring both...

 

[taysmom]

So sorry to hear about wilsons party, nan. Spaghetti Factory should be fun. I haven't been there in years!
I will email you and marr with dates for a super frank meet. My email server is down at school, so I can't look tonight..which sux! But, tomorrow I will.

Nice talking to you Marr...we are in big trouble..did you see the amount of time we were on the phone! OMG..chatty kathys we are!

 

[Tigger1221]

For the one looking for the e-bay beer bottle, here is a link to delswifes blog. Go to the bottom and you will see the ceral box story. The beer story is on there to but I will have to find it.
http://delswife-stories.blogspot.com/

 

[woody73]

I agree with this - if you don't want to spend a lot of $$ - you can always find someone on Medrano beach or by the dock to take you out there. That is what we did - we ended up paying less than $15 to have him take us to the "Eye of the World" and the Arch.

. . . Usually pretty safe but I prefer to err on the side of caution - let someone know if your going on your own and who the boat owner is. . . I've had nothing but good experience out there as most rely heavily on tourists to make a living but you can never be too cautious right?

Laura - Thanks for the sound advice.

Woody

 

[woody73]

. . . I just love my cameras - they are important as my passport - I don't leave home without them!

Too funny, but true!

Woody

 

[figment52]

For the one looking for the e-bay beer bottle, here is a link to delswifes blog. Go to the bottom and you will see the ceral box story. The beer story is on there to but I will have to find it.
http://delswife-stories.blogspot.com/

If you search delswife.com you can find all the ebay auction stories. The links gets blocked (I tried)

 

[woody73]

. . . I'm sorry but because of a nun in 3rd grade... I can't do mustard...

So, what happened?

Woody

 

[iankh]

Great! I'll email you...I think I might have missed something. Who is Mrs. Bennett? Sorry if I should know. I'm a bit slow!
Lisa

I look forward to getting your email.

No, you probably haven't missed anything. I've been going on and on ever since I found and fell in love and lusted after a Chumby. One names one's Chumby. I've ordered one, and I've decided to call it Mrs. Bennett.

My own little planet is a very happy place indeed.

Oh ... time to go feed the unicorns...

 

[woody73]

Yup! remember quite well - I was running around trying to get my right angle picture of the arch (I'd forgotten I'd already taken the tour then) But the angle sorta felt like you had a head cold and your ears were stuffed up. There were a couple of people on deck 10 having fun making up scenarios on how the capt was going to get the anchor up - the strongest was that they were going to get some CM's in wet suits and they were going to "unstick" the anchor - hey - we were bored - what can I say?

I'd say too many DODs. (Just kidding!)

Woody

 

[Tink rules]

wow - now these cameras take two batteries...mine takes 4!

I know.. my old olympus used 4... Make sure that you get the good batteries for electronics!!! This camera ate regular batteries when I used it for my nephew's play last week...

non MAC users....what laptop would you recommend? I would primarily use it for the net, and work - which is excel based and net based....downloading pics, etc.

I think you can get excel on a mac now... anyone???

 

[Tigger1221]

If you search delswife.com you can find all the ebay auction stories. The links gets blocked (I tried)

Thats weird they work when I click them. Her blog is different than the website.

 

[iankh]

We've purchased a Mickey vest and tie from the Tuxxman. He is great to deal with!!!

I sent him an email earlier, asking about his inventory, prices, what he recommends, etc.

The thought of owning my set of tails is even MORE exciting.

I'm sort of picturing myself wearing them to the supermarket, Home Depot (I can just see myself in Home Depot, "My good man, can you recommend a tool belt for a formal occasion?" or the conversations in the supermarket, "No one seems to dress anymore when shopping for dinner.")

I might just start wearing tails, everywhere!

At any rate, I look forward to hearing back from Tuxxman.


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[seaulater]

Great! We can reminisce about the good (a new dinner menu every night), and the bad (the awful stage performer from Las Vegas who did impersonations).

Woody

Couldn't have been as bad as Bob Saget.

 

[woody73]

Yes, as they were pulling it up they had problems. Kept thinking if they moved the ship in circles and kept tilting us from side to side it might correct itself, but it didn't, so they had to bring in manually. I wonder how many CM's had to hand crank that thing to get the anchor up?

Oompaloompas at work!?!

Woody

 

[HollyTyler]

Thank you Angie,

The reality of the situation is that raising my two is no more difficult than raising "normal" kids, just different sets of problems. There are some silverlinings to having my boys too...instead of a college fund, I get to take them on these cruises, I don't have to worry about them doing recreational drugs , and neither has a girlfriend yet!

Look forward to seeing everyone soon!

Steve, what a great way to look at things! Yup, I'll definitely be having a couple mugs of beer with you.

 

[woody73]

John denies he was watching a school of blue fish, but I'm not so sure.

Woody

 

[HollyTyler]

Well I think he is in shock! Took him a few minutes even with Brent telling him several times that he was going on the cruise too. Then the "I can't get off in June since I'm off in May and July" started(he thought we were going to Myrtle Beach in May so I had to tell him that my cruise was in June). Once all the facts were out he understood. I'm sure when Brent goes home later I will get more questions. What I think is funny is that Brent needed to tell him so he could discuss some things with him . The things were-that the first thing they are going to do is go down the hall to Beat Street and see the traffic light and then they are going to play shuffleboard. The things a kid thinks are important!

Now to get him on this board!

 

[fourmcds]

I have a really small Sony point and shoot and I really love it. Not sure what kind people are looking for but I love mine. It is so light and small you can put it on a lanyard and wear it around your neck when out and about.

Scott and I each have one of these too. We love how small it is and easy to carry around. Takes great pics, but bit of a delay so I miss any action shots unless I do the action mode where it takes 16 pics in 16 seconds. And, last i looked V it came in pink! But this takes the memory stick duo's so you would need new memory cards

 

[fourmcds]

Our friend is over and making our juices for the week. Fasting with juicing will be pretty interesting...started tomorrow. We have two juices:
1) celery, spinach, apple, cucumber and
2) watermelon & apple
Kaylee, are these juices like the ones you do?
We are commited to do it for one week. Our friend has done it for 34 days. Wow!
Lisa

I have done juicing in the past but with our expensive veggie selections and such I don't do it in the winter. What I do is a raw powder that contains fruits, veggies, and nuts that mixes in water. I drink 1 different powder every 2 hours 7x a day. I usually make it about 5 days and then I just miss chewing food too much. I am never hungry and have tons of energy...I just miss the joy of eating food if that makes sense.

Good luck!!!

 

[seaulater]

Oompaloompas at work!?!

Woody