Please, someone help me justify spending $2800 on a Nikon D300 and a further $1500 for a GOOD lens.
I don’t think I’ve wanted something so badly in my life but the problem is I also really need a computer upgrade. This one is too slow. Photoshop is starting to run like crap, I need an external hard drive, I need a much faster graphics card and… I want two more monitors so I can have peripheral vision in WoW. (Yes, I am that sick.) Okay, well maybe not the two extra monitors (just one) but I definitely need some new hardware on this thing because there’s noises my computer is making that a computer shouldn’t make.
Yes, everything is backed up.
New FASTER, BIGGER, BETTER computer or new FABULOUS, SEXY, camera on which noise at 6400 ISO DOES NOT EXIST AND HAS 50-odd AF POINTS?!?
*sob*
I wish I was one of those fabulous photographers who got their cameras for free, but no, I am just a pleb.
Eh. So the new budget is out. Can’t say I’m impressed. I rarely get political on this blog and I’m not being overtly political now when I say that the new budget is a complete farce.
“Working families” seems to be the catchphrase of the decade and working families have featured heavily in this years budget, to the almost complete exclusion of every other faction of society. No doubt families are doing it tough, but so are the elderly and the especially young.
As for the tax cuts. Meh. It’s just another $20 I’ll be getting that’ll get eaten up by petrol or rises in the cost of getting a ticket for the train each month. I would have much rather that $20 tax break went to my nice ex-neighbour’s pension.
The savings plan thing they’re putting in for new home buyers sounds pretty good but like all things, I will wait until they’ve tested that for bugs before I look into it further.
As for the rest of the stuff - means testing all the family benefits and baby bonuses, etc, etc, etc - doesn’t affect me so I am safe to remain ambivalent about it a while longer. Though I have to say, a dual income of $150K by today’s standards is NOT rich. Dunno where they came up with that one.
Any one of my bloggy mates adversely affected by the new budget?
It’s amazing what one flippant comment posted in a moment of sheer frustration can bring.
First I got this one:
Author : ellen (IP: 124.254.127.88 , 124-254-127-88-dsl.ispone.net.au)
E-mail : ellendegenerate@hotmail.com
URI :
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=124.254.127.88
Comment:
If your going to say terrible things like you want to cut into a dog’s throat rather than do other things to solve the problem, then people are right to suggest the same to you. This is a site you show to everyone and if you don’t like what they say dont show the world you are cruel and mean. The world will agree with you because only a nasty sick mean person would even think of this. Dogs bark for a reason, the owner is not helping, and you are not helping with saying that mutilation is the answer.
And then this one from the same person as if the first comment wasn’t more than enough:
Author : ellen (IP: 124.254.127.88 , 124-254-127-88-dsl.ispone.net.au)
E-mail : ellen.degenerate@hotmail.com
URI :
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=124.254.127.88
Comment:
Well it is sad that you are a coward and believe it is ok to hurt animals but when someone says as a joke it should happen to you that’s not ok? Cutting into the throats of dogs is cruel and dogs are barking for a reason. You are a cruel person. You are a bad person deep inside, this badness comes out in the way you talk. You might think it is funny to be so heartless, to have no soul or thought for the dogs, but this shows you have a dark empty space where other people have light and love and happiness. You are a sad bad lonely person who shows why the world is bad too. It is people like you that cause pain, and people like you show what happens if you live your life like a selfish thoughtless nasty failure as a person and a spirit. This will harm you. Your life is already unhappy, and you are probably sick too because you have no beautiful spirit in you.
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Got this fabulous comment from a gutless troll regarding my previous blog entry:
Name: fanofalmostanyothersite | E-mail: fanofalmostanyothersite@hotmail.com | IP: 121.79.14.33 | Date: May 12, 2008
Jeezus, if you’re going to debark yapping bitches start one house to the left!
Oh, come on darling, be brave and leave your name next time. M’kay? I may be a small time, fat, yapping bitch, but I OWN my small time, fat, yapping bitchiness.
And it’s one house to the RIGHT, numbnuts.
The neighbour’s dog is barking. It has been barking ALL weekend.
No kidding. Since I got home at 5pm on Friday night to now - 9pm on SUNDAY - it has been barking pretty much constantly.
Of course, the manbeast is too polite and patient to go ’round to tell them to get their dog to SHUT THE FUCK UP!, please, so that means I will have to do it. And I’m sick with the flu and am missing two nights worth of sleep already so I am NOT going to be nice about it (which is what I was trying to avoid when I asked the manbeast to go ’round there).
This is one case where I completely support the surgical removal of the bark. That yapping little shit is driving me mental.
I’ve always been entranced with the idea of scrapbooking. I love the look of a lovingly scrapped page. My aunts are especially great at scrapping and have filled probably thirty full-sized scrap books between them both with all their kids. My aunt in the country… err, well, Mildura… has a whole room dedicated to her scrapbooking endeavours while my other aunt makes do with any flat surface that’s available when there’s no kids, cats or dogs around. Anyway, their stuff is very, very cool.
Problem is that as much as I appreciate these crafty wonders, I can’t stand the thought of sitting there for days cutting things out, glueing things on, arranging, rearranging, re-rearranging, re-cutting, re-gluing… you get the picture… not to mention the cost that’s involved.
I thought my beads were bad in that department.
Anyway, I discovered a new joy. Digital scrapbooking! A friend from deviantART actually creates digital scrapbooking elements and sells them online. I wanted to make a couple of desktop wallpapers for myself with the pictures I took at my fairy god-child’s birthday and I thought that would be a cool way of doing it. So I bought some kits and went to work.
I ended up with this:
Cute, eh? Nessa loves it.
Funny how I hate the thought of cutting up real paper and buggering around for ages with real stuff but I’ll happily play for hours with the digital version.
Anyhoo, since putting that together I’ve also been accepted onto the Mellow Butterfly creative team! Squee! So I’ll have a reason to do some more scrapbooking because I’ll be hosting competitions and stuff for a little while - speaking of which, they’re holding one now so if you’ve got a few spare bucks, buy a kit and enter the latest challenge, you get a freebie layout as well as a thanks for entering.
I’m now working on an online gallery for my family (it’ll be private, sorry guys!) now which should offer me yet another thing to tinker with when I’m bored or need to procrastinate.
