Camera Service Update

It has been nearly two months since I sent my Nikon DSLR in for what I thought would be routine cleaning and maintenance. At last, yesterday, I got an email from the Nikon Service Department:

Subject Check Status SO# XXXXX
10/29/2010 03:08 PM

Hello,

We apologize for the delay on the repair of your equipment

Your equipment is currently going thorugh the Quality Assurance department, to make sure we return the equipment to you within manufacturer standards.

We will get back to you with the tracking information as soon as it becomes available.

Kind regards,
R. M.

Reference #: XXXXX

Thanks for using Nikon products!
Nikon Inc. (USA) Support / Service

UPDATE: I got my camera back November 23, just in time for Thanksgiving. That means I had no camera for two months. In that time, two photography jobs came up that I lost - even after making arrangements with friends to use their equipment if mine was not back in time. A photographer without a camera is no photographer and "analog" film cameras are commercially useless in this day and age.

leftovers, or lack thereof

Update: Monstermustdie has pulled the sandwich makings out of the freezer and looks like we're eating a week of sandwiches.

A Good Weekend Gathering

Finally, the rain has come. Lots of lightning and thunder shaking the house this morning.

This brilliant idea from Neil Gaiman's blog:
... I propose that, on Hallowe'en or during the week of Hallowe'en, we give each other scary books. Give children scary books they'll like and can handle. Give adults scary books they'll enjoy. ... new books or old or second-hand, beloved books or unknown. Give someone a scary book for Hallowe'en. Make their flesh creep...

We had a great time at the Pumpkin Carving yesterday. I only wish I'd had the additional lights set up already on the back porch like I'd planned to. Of course, not having my camera back from Nikon yet is still killing me. I have a few possible photography jobs lined up that friends have, quite thankfully, agreed to help me with until I can get my own equipment back. Also, I never got around to putting out the sandwich fixin's, still in the fridge, that MonsterMustDie had bought for the gathering. I'm putting the cold cuts, cheese, and bread in the freezer for next week unless we both decide to have sandwich lunches all week. The chili that the GothFather brought was great - so good, in fact, that there was none left at the end of the night for MonsterMustDie to try.

Fortunately there were friends making photos and videos to share of the night.

work again

Got in another nearly full day of work. Six hours. Tomorrow, I have nothing to do so I hope I can get a start on cleaning and decorating before the gatherings this weekend and next. Tomorrow night is an opening at the Signature Shop that MonsterMustDie want's to go to. There is a borrowed chainsaw in the dining room that really needs to go home by Saturday. There is grocery shopping to do.

condo, work, dreams

Met Marty the Plumber at the condo to repair the toilet. Some day, I do plan to replace it with a nice low-water toilet. Thankfully, he gave me a very good price on the work, even with him having a helper with him as well.

Worked yesterday nearly 8 hours. Found out the pressman's wife works in network communications. She was off work for a couple of days and stopped in to bring him lunch and sodas, which he shared with me. The drink was a life saver that day because there are no more clean or disposable cups at work, despite having a water cooler there. I had somehow managed to remember to bring a snack but nothing to drink.

Uneven sleep last night, ending with a long dream that included 1. working at an office being punked by John Stewart and the Daily Show, 2, Springtime, living in a luxury high rise apartment with a window overlooking a swimming pool and dogwoods blooming outside and trying to take a polaroid photo of myself in front of the window, 3. A weekend AJC with a large (quarter page?) ad for Iggy Pop concert in to Atlanta, making it look like he was headlining at an arena, 4. Me looking fabulous with a good haircut.