Food and Cameras
So, today is Thursday. Thursday means Natalie, our help desk coordinator(slash office manager slash all-around great girl), is in the office. She works from home on Mondays through Wednesdays, but she comes in on Thursday, and today is Thursday.
Also today, Thursday, we had a departmental lunch with Mike Stanley, our account rep (or sales manager, or account sales, or whatever) for pbm. All these guys are great. When we re-did our network a few years ago, we got to work with a whole slew of the guys from pbm, and they’re all really smart and fun-to-be-with guys. Anyways, he came down and took us all to lunch, so we went to Taps in Brea.
Wow, this place is nice. First off, the ambience is that of a really nice establishment. Nice white tablecloths, wine glasses, napkins folded interestingly… Well, so it’s billed as a fish place, so everyone got fish (sans Kevin, who enjoyed a roast beef sandwich). We had 2 orders of salmon, some Ahi, some crab, and I forget what Mike Stanley got. I got the crab. It was this open-faced crab melt. Lots of crab meat blended with spices and mayonnaise tuna-salad-like, with melted cheese and some tasty sauce drizzled on top. Splendid!
So after lunch was work.
After work was my commute home.
After commute Becky and I decided to take the photos for our ‘save the date’ cards. I’ll post more info about the ‘save the date’ cards when we’re done with ‘em (Hopefully by then my photo album will be online.) Well, while we were attempting to take these photos, we came to the stark realization that Becky’s camera sucks. So I, man of action, tell her that it’s time we bought a new digital camera. So off we go!
We started our hunt at Best Buy. We saw a couple of nice cameras, but were not blown off our feet. We then went to Circuit City. Again, not overly impressed, but we’re at least getting ideas for what we do and do not want. Our last stop is to Good Guys. More of the same, but this time more expensive.
So, camera trip not as productive as I had envisioned, but still not a total loss. The real effect that we saw from our trip was our choice for dining.
Roundabouts here in Huntington Beach, California, there was this Marie Callender’s up near Beach and Heil. A couple of months ago we noticed that there were barricades up and it looked like the place was getting torn down, or renovated or something. Turns out it was the latter. The new place is a Marie Callender’s Grill.
All they really did during the revamp was take out most of the booths, put in nice marble tables, and paint everything. They also added the ‘grill’ to the sign, and apparantly that’s pretty important. The menu has changed (Cornbread comes free at the beginning of the meal!) and the prices have been adjusted as well (read: more expensive.) The food was great, the staff was a bit overzealous (they had obviously all just been hired: “Goodbye… goodbye… goodbye, thanks… thanks…”), but the overall dining experience was excellent.
So my day was filled with great food and shopping for a new digital camera. Have a suggestion for a camera? leave a comment!
Our criteria for cameras are thus:
- Must not take AA or other regular batteries
- Must be fairly compact to fit in a purse or pocket comfortably
- 4 Megapixels or up
- Hopefully less than around $300
June 17th, 2005 at 15:16
Here would be my recommendation… http://www.cameraworld.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10151&catalogId=10001&langId=-1&productId=13141855&bct=t1003%3Bc1009
It is the latest version of the little camera I use for daily use stuff… small enough for a purse or pocket, but has enough horsepower to give you great shots. It uses a rechargeable battery and I recommend getting an extra one eventually, but mine can go a week without a charge (i.e. I charged my little camera last week before Sally came and even with all the use have not had to recharge it yet. Cameraworld is in Or. so there is no sales tax.
On the Save the Date Photo let me know if you want some help with it and I can take the photo for you on the new camera if you like… maybe tomorrow or Sunday I could shoot it for you… let me know.
The other thing about MC Grill is that they put lots of effort into plating the food. They did the same transformation to the one by Christie’s Gma’s so we went there for dessert one night and ordered a brownie sunday and it cam on a plate dusted with powdered sugar and drizzled with a raspberry reduction… and the best part was the chef delivered the dish… I was expecting someone to say "Bam"
June 17th, 2005 at 17:12
This is your blog daddy. Good job on resurecting the gallery program BTW.
June 17th, 2005 at 17:19
Oh yea, I have an Elph S110. Ancient 2MP by today’s standards but I keep it because I fabricated an underwater housing to work with it. Great little camera. The Elphs now come with the NB1LH battery which works better than the NB1L. I think those are the part numbers. Anyway they are interchangable. I also have a Canon S70 7MP, well it’s my wife’s, and it takes awesome photos. Canon makes good still cameras but pass on the video cameras as they suck.
The Nikon Coolpix series is pretty good too.
June 17th, 2005 at 20:30
Nothing about the camera…I love to read this it really gives me a glimpse into your life. Please keep up the ‘blog’
Love and miss you Mom
June 18th, 2005 at 8:42
You can only get to your gallery from the home page, links to it from all other pages don’t work.