Oh wait.. I forgot to explain why the bees were important to today! Like true heroes of the revolution Odie and Tony came over after trap shooting and I went outside with a flashlight and showed them where the bee hive is. Then they sprayed it full of bee killer stuff. Thursday Odie is going to come over and dig up the hive and put it in the trash. He's such a good man.

Well regular posting is likely to return as trap season has returned!

Hmm.. I don't think I posted that a week ago yesterday I got stung by a bunch of bees while cutting the grass. I still have big angry red welts. So 8 days, still itchy. (this comes into today later)

Work is chaotic, we're trying to implent software that I don't really think is ready for prime time.

Now to the important stuff... Trap! Well we're not the geek posse anymore because we got tired of being called Posey. Posse, Posey? one's a group of people, the other a flower. Maybe next season we'll be the buttercups or the bluebells, but for now we're geeks with shotguns. I thought briefly about calling us 9 shooters 6 guns, which is true, but might keep people from buying one. Anybody want to sponsor a trap team? Too late for this season but we're on the lookout for spring.

New team, some new people, we picked up Gary, a co-worker of mine (and by no small coincidence co-worker of Tony, Erik and Deanna). Also new to us...Steve who shot pistol with Erik and I last winter. And Sigrid, who didn't make it out this week but will next week. Odie shot his personal best ever as his handicap round, maybe not the best move on earth, but I'm happy for him anyhow. Deanna shot for crap with my 12ga, the 20ga being still broken. The scorer was crazy.. I shot 20, 21, 23. Gary shot well for a new guy! So all was ok.

Haven't updated recently. What's to say? Organizing a new team for trap this fall. Most the same old characters. Picking up a few maybe. Losing a few maybe. Got some sort of killer headache thing. Life is generally good. I'm happy. Work is pretty good. I'm giving blood Thursday.

This weekend I got a new camera. I've been thinking about it a long time. Bascally it came down to new shotgun or new camera. I have a shotgun. I didn't have a digital SLR. Film processing has gotten rather pricey to just shoot for no occasion, and really in the modern world people share photos online, which means either getting a negative scanner, or paying yet MORE for film processing, or buying a digital SLR. I got a Canon EOS Rebel XT. I'm very happy. The buttons are mostly all in the same places as on my A1 and AE1, and the modes of operation are like both my A1 and like my little cannon Powershot pocket camera. So I win! Yep. See me be a member of the Canon clan. I know some Nikon fans. They have nice equipment too. But see where my fingers already know how to work a Canon without thought.



I've been out shooting with my camera both days this weekend. Saturday I went to the fair. Sunday to the park. Tomorrow maybe the gun club, I'll try some action shots of people shooting clays or something.

Today's camera experiments were all about using Aperture Priority mode, and setting short depths of field and getting the camera to focus where I wanted it to without a lot of thinking. One has to practice these things if one wants smart fingers. I'm not sure I'm used to adjusting the F-stop with a roller under my right index finger yet. I still want to adjust it with the hand holding the lens.

Anyhow here is a link to my picasaweb page with the stuff I've been shooting. Sooner proabably rather than later I'll pull down all the junk and only post stuff that's actually sort of acceptably decent. In the mean time you can see the bulk of my experimentation.