“Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection into eternal life”
Hallelujah!!Praise the Lord!!He is Risen!!Probably not what you expected my blog to start with, especially the day after my soul was banished to Hell for eternity. LOL, but there has been a resurrection!
Remember this entry from Valentine’s Day?
RIP my poor little Canon SD850. It got some sand in it at the beach last weekend, and tonight the lens got stuck, and broke.
On February 14, 2008 atapproximately 8:00 PM,Carey’s Canon SD850 was pronounced dead after a short battle with beach sand. Last weekend, the camera was busily snapping away at its usual pace, when unbeknownst to Carey, some grains of sand nefariously crept into his pocket, invading the most delicate lens orifice and taking root. The cough began Sunday night, and by Monday the camera’s breathing was heavy and labored. Screws were loosened to relieve some pressure and a high powered air can was brought in from Culver City. Despite a dedicated international team consulting with Carey around the clock, the camera succumbed to the gritty nemesis Thursday evening, surrounded by family. His last picture in fact was of Carey’s cousin Darlene and his Aunty LuLu kissing his cousin Tommy.
The SD850 was preceded in death by his older brother SD800 and grandparents Canon AE1 Program and Canon EOS Elan IIE. In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully requests Paypal donations to a new Canon G9 Fund set up in Carey’s name. Burial arrangements have not been made public, for fear of intrusive paparazzi. Rest in pieces.
Regular readers of this space know that 2 days after I lost my SD850, a
bouncing baby G9 was delivered by the Canon stork:
When my baby G9 developed
croup, he had to go
into the hospital in Irvine to recover. Since I’m extremely co-dependent, and couldn’t be without my camera for a week, I bought a cheap
SD1000 at Costco the
fateful night of my car accident on March 21st. (That’s a whole other blog entry, but suffice it to say,
I still don’t have my car back, and the damages are well past $10,000 now!)
After I got the G9 back, I decided to keep the pocket camera, as it was convenient for walk around snapshots. After the G9 was repaired however, the picture clarity was not as good as it used to be, so I took it back to Irvine last week to have them take a look. Coincidentally, I had read about this amazing program that Canon is offering:
Canon USA just started offering an upgrade option if you have an out of warranty PowerShot (not EOS) digital camera in need of repair (or if you have a repair that is not covered by the warranty, like dropping it). If you decide that you would rather upgrade to a refurbished camera in the same product line (ie. S100 to S400), you could choose to upgrade and send your older camera back when you receive the new one.The upgrade price seems to be about half the cost of purchasing the newer model. You do not get to choose which model (and in the case where you have a newer model, an upgrade may not be an option- even though the option is there for a replacement of the same model).In other words, if you have an S110, you couldn’t upgrade to a G5 or anS50. In many cases, the newest model in a product line (S500 and S60,for example) are not the upgrade model available. For more information, call 866-443-8002.
Taken with my cellSo I took my old, broken, sandy SD850 in to them, and even though it was too new to be eligible for the refurbish program, they did say they would fix it for $99! It was in pretty bad shape (as you can see above) and they basically replaced the entire casing. and lens. It’s like a brand new camera. She even gave me the option of waiting a year or two and trading it in as part of the refurbish program. She said they would accept it even though it was completely destroyed. I love Canon!
So now I have 3 working cameras, not to mention my old
Canon AE1 Program and my old
EOS Elan IIE (anyone want to buy them?). The good thing about Costco is that you can
return the camera within 90 days for a full refund, no questions asked. So I’m returning the SD1000 and keeping the SD850 and the G9. (Though I might consider selling one in the future…make me an offer)
Good as new!
Now I doubt there are many people left in American who don’t believe that American Idol is at least a little rigged, but this opened up a whole new can Clay Fakin’!! Speaking of
Clay, he was on
TMZ today. Take a look. Lord & Taylor!
VFTW: In damage control mode today, Paula Abdul tells Entertainment Tonight that she was actually commenting on David Cook’s song when she mentioned Jason’s “second song” during her infamous flub on the show last night. It’s not believable, she should’ve just gone with the “I’m drunk” excuse. Her critique on “Jason’s second song” was that he wasn’t trying hard enough to get into the top 4 and that it wasn’t good. Her critique of David after catching herself was that he was good. This should be proof enough that Idol isn’t even good enough at lying to fix simple problems that expose how fixed the show is. If it truly was a misunderstanding, it would be easy to explain. But since Paula is lying about it, something is up. Also, EW’s Popwatch blog talks about how Nigel Lythgoe was FREAKING OUT when Paula messed up with quotes like, “Nigel was frantically gesturing a single finger to anyone who could see him: ONE SONG! THEY’VE ONLY SUNG ONE SONG!” The fact that Nigel was freaking out is a sure sign that this was definitely something big. (If you missed Paula’s flub, you can check it out here.)
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