For the past three days the little man has been persistent in his insistence…that I play Yellow Submarine, on repeat, whenever we are in the car together. Our daily commute isn’t a short one. I fear his Beatlemania is further hastening my descent into complete madness.
In other news, I’ve been thinking…it would be handy to have a point and shoot camera again. I have a love/hate relationship with my old Olympus C-4040. The quality of the photos is decent, especially with my oddball macro shots, but I hate how large and clunky the camera is, and it has a terrible terrible shutter lag problem. It often feels like an eternity has passed between the time I press the button and something actually happens. So the impending arrival of baby Felix is just as good an excuse as any to pick up either the Canon SD550 or Canon SD500, not as a replacement necessarily, but to supplement my photographical needs.
Speaking of photography and such…lately many of the fine flickr folks who have been adding me as a contact have been from Portugal, and I’ve gotten many lovely emails and comments from our Portuguese friends. After looking at some of their photos it’s making me want to skip Spain altogether the next time I head to Europe, and focus on Portugal, nação valente e imortal. And I’d like to stop by Switzerland to visit Cherie, in her red kitchen. But it’s going to be a while before I take any trips at all.
Update: Mystery solved. Rosa posted a link to one of my photos. That’s where all these wonderful Portuguese peeps are coming from!
