jon’s blog.

We had acquired dust on the lens of our Nikon D70. For weeks I”ve been trying to figure out how and where the root of the problem was. I figured it was behind this black thing inside of the lens, that I couldn’t get to, and thought i’d likely have to take it to a repair shop.

It helped tonight when i read the manual. Was very pleased to see that there was a feature, “Mirror Lift”, that is created for the very purpose of cleaning off any dirt on images! yowza. fixed a 1 month problem in 5 minutes. The manual is indeed Fine. ;)

dear diary,
i’ve been getting comment spammed by a thankful chinese ape lately. apparently i’m not alone. I found it original, and amusiing. :) wordpress 1.5 is just fine, no external software, for comment spam killing. I often wonder why so many go through so many other measures to combat it. It takes patience (to see your “please moderate” queue grow–but that’s what the blacklist is for as well!:) other than that, not much else.

back to work for today.

Tonight was fun. Our small group was meeting tonight, but only our family showed up at the Kendals. It ended up being great; getting to talk to the pops for a while, before his wife got home with the kids, as our kids were wreaking havoc in the playroom…as we were chatting we heard two distinct sounds of little pieces of something falling, and we just hollered in to make sure everything was cool, but for the most part ignored it. When we got in the room, there were puzzle pieces everywhere, from a puzzle they had been working on! So we spent the rest of the evening beginning to put together the puzzle. You never realize how much fun you have together putting together puzzles. A refreshing time. We all needed it; and I’m glad we got to hang together.
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