practically christmas morning

My camera was scheduled to arrive at work today. I knew it last night, and was looking forward to it all day. Then I got into work, and was busy (read: distracted from other thoughts); I was surprised for a second when I was handed the package. It didn't last long though.

The problem was this was at 11am. I didn't get out of work until at least 6:30, so it stayed in its box until then. But as soon as I got home, it was the first thing I opened. Reading the manual as the battery charged (2 hours? I have to wait because they don't ship fully charged batteries?!?), learning what it can do. I put the lens cap on, the shoulder strap, put in one of the SD cards I bought for it.

I was watching TV with Christine, halfway watching the green light on the charger, just waiting for it to turn off. I'd watch that light as much as the TV show that was on. It was off 10 seconds before I got up and put it in the camera. It worked!

I played with settings, set the time right, took test pictures/movies (yay HD movies!), enjoyed it in general. It gets old taking pictures of stuff in the house at 10pm at night. Yet another reason to look forward to going to DC, I can really test this puppy out!

And now, time to register it.