get out of my system-again

Very short blog here-but I have just about had it with a lot of things. Mainly the whole digital photography thing. I am fed up to the proverbial teeth seeing a new camera come out and then 6 moths later it is upgraded and replaced by not only a new model, but a new battery (so you cannot shove the old battery in your new camera as a spare). There is a plethora of digital editing programmes and even the magazines encourage you to invest in at least two or three of these programmes. I just don’t get the idea of going out to take a photo them come back and spend a considerable amount of time fixing it up-and 90% of the time the photo remains on a computer hard drive to be completely forgotten about. OK I DO try to get mine printed as much as possible-but you need to have a lot printed to make cost worthwhile, you sometimes need to download a link to some site to get them printed, if you don’t like the quality in your local Boots or wherever you go. I am so fed up with this I am 80% sure I will be off to one of those trade in shops on Tuesday and take whatever I get. I will be dumping my collection of camera magazines that I kept because there was something that looked “handy” in them-and obviously I never looked at again. I think a little compact camera is all I need-if anything. The whole computer side has really killed my liking taking photographs. This may be some form of midlife crisis-but we’ll see what happens come Tuesday.

At work today in a conversation, I mentioned that I only watch the one programme on the tv-“Dexter” and when it finishes there will be nothing I want to watch. The woman who started this conversation looked surprised and said “What do you do in the evenings then?” Is this how tv has taken over our lives? I told her that I would read,listen,to radio,music or work on photos on the computer (which will hopefully be stopping too soon).I also said that I would stare at a wall and contemplate things-which got a really puzzled look. OK I DO have some dvds of movies and some discontinued tv shows-but they only seem to be watched in the winter months, when it’s too cold/wet/icy/dark to get outside.

Gonna try a healthy eating thing next week-giving up the tea/coffee and all the rubbishy things, and the beer/cider. I only ever drink when I’m away somewhere on holiday-so that bit should be pretty easy.

And I’m giving up on a couple of other projects-less said about them the better,to be honest should have done this sooner.