Order nightmare is over.

Back on November 8th I ordered a Transcend 2gb 150X SD card to backup my cards I all ready have. On November 12 I sent the Amazon dealer a email request for the shipping information and later received a USPS delivery confirmation number. The USPS numbers are not tracking numbers like UPS or FedEx, so there is no way to track the shipment. A week went by and still no package, so I again contacted the company by phone and spoke to the owner who apologized and said he would reship the package again. Later that night I received another tracking number. Another 10 days passed and again no package so again I contacted the company who said they would ship out the package by 2 day air that day. Well that was the 27th and today I received the package. I have no doubt that the Amazon seller had none in stock, so they thought they would delay by saying the shipment was on it's way. You and I know that the USPS is not that inept to loose two packages to the same address. I have no way to prove my theory, but I am glad it has arrived. I will not be evil and give the company a perfect rating, but i will let it pass as all is well now.

On another subject! I have been hunting for a vertical shutter release for my Pentax and haven't found one that meets my requirements until now. Dicain will have their's available for sale sometime in December and I will chances are get it from them. The one they make for the DS is very nice, but I am hopping that this one has a USB connection so that I don't have to remove the SD card to off load my pictures, or remove the grip to connect the cable. Only time will tell. I will update this subject as time gets closer to delivery.

Below is a few photos from recent shoots. My granddaughter is below followed by my Desert Lynx Dylan.

A few weeks ago I wrote here that my router had failed and I ordered another to replace it. I was also concerned that this router might not be strong enough to reach the upper floors, but I am happy to report I get a "Very Good" signal on the third floor notebook computer.

I am unhappy to report that my Dell E510 the computer that I edit my photographs and most of my other work on crashed. The thing had a catastrophic hardware failure that caused Windows XP to crash. So far I have worked at least 30 hours on it and have it running, but I am positive it will crash at any time. I am able to do anything but edit photos as it seems to fail with heavy CPU and memory usage. My next computer will be an iMac 20", but it will have to wait until this system is no longer usable.