Ever have one of those days when you wake up, whether superstitious or not, and say to yourself "this is going to be one of those days where something bad may happen...like getting into a car accident" - knowing well that it will not happen. But that thought sticks in your head all day. Similar is true with the opposite thoughts - of something
positive happening.
Well, neighter happened - but something almost
did happen. I was with one of my co-workers during lunch heading out to a quick errand in her really cool mustang convertable - wicked ass car, we were within a block of the office as we were heading out and were about to make a left hand turn onto another road, horrible visibility with the traffic...to make a long story short, I am glad my co-worker has really quick reflexes to a almost fatal thing that happened. On that left hand turn, there was a truck who was going to turn in front of us, and was trying to be courteous by waving us ahead to go - unbeknownst to us, he didn't see the car we couldn't see barrelling down the road who jumped a red light. That car would have T-Boned us dead on going about 50mph if my co-worker and friend didn't slam on her breaks. We were about 1" from being clipped. That would have been a horrible accident, especially in a convertable mustang from the late 80s. I was a little frazzled, but was thankful that I have confidence in my friend's driving.
Anyhoo - it was a beautiful, and HOT day...went up to 87 degrees. Felt like summer. Work was unbearable - from two points, ABBA was being a total dick, seeming like he was off his meds again teemed with a problem with one of the things we were working on, a "bug" resulted in something and farked up the finishing of development time of something, which put a delay on something...to make a long story short - I couldn't get out of the office until 6:30.
Which was ok, except that by the time I suited up, went on my training ride, got back to my car, un-geared, drove home, had dinner, it's already 10:30. It was a really nice training ride though, met up with a few buds and we high tailed it out to Hamilton and back - very fast sweaty ride, chock full of stupid stories, pacelining, plans for the cycling season - 2 of which are doing the Mountains of Misery. 42 miles in all.
The highlight of my day was getting my new digital camera (showcased from yesterday) - it's really nice - so far. What I like best about it is that it's tiny, weatherproof. If I become a zealot, I may finish charging the battery and take a quick pic of something and post it. But it's getting late.
UPDATE: Damn!..I love my new camera...just very quick shots, plug n play..then quick export to photoshop..some quick manipulation(s)...then wallah!..a very zesty photo-illustration within 10-15 minutes. I love it.
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Comments:
you should try out one of the sigma cameras that uses the foveon imaging sensors. breathtaking picture quality. would love to have one of them but will have to be content with my fuji 5100.