Camera shopping and peanuts in the shell

I sold my SLR film camera (Canon Elan 7E) on Ebay last night. So, this afternoon I packed it up and shipped it out to L.A. where the winning bidder lives. Weird, you'd think with all of the people who live in L.A., you'd send or receive mail to/from there more often. Anyway, it was a little sad because that camera has been present for lots of great memories with our family. I took the last two shots of our kids to finish off the roll of film before I packed it up.

Then I proceeded online to purchase my new camera, a Canon EOS 20d. This one's a digital SLR. This day has been a long time coming because I've been scrimping and saving forever. Pretty much all I wanted for Christmas was $$ to go towards the camera fund. Then Elise graciously gave me some of her Christmas and Birthday $$ as well - thanks El. So with the sale of a couple of lenses and my film camera I had enough to make the plunge. The funny thing is that the best price from an authorized Canon dealer was from Amazon. There were cheaper prices out there on the internet, but all from shady camera stores that sell gray market cameras or try to bait and switch you into buying lots of overpriced accessories. It took a bit of research to finally determine that if the price sounds too good to be true, then it is. Nothing's free in this world.

Tonight Whitney babysat our kids and Elise and I went out to eat at Logan's Roadhouse. Logan's has been open for a while in Fayetteville, but for some reason we just never have made it there until tonight. I guess it's because we keep going back to our favorites - Tim's Pizza, Taste of Thai, Hugo's, etc. Anyway, it was pretty good. I got a decent 9oz sirloin with salad, baked potato, bread and all you can eat peanuts (in the shell) for $9.99. The only major knock against the place is that the music they play is virtually all country. Now, any of you who know me are laughing right now, because you know I hate country music. For some reason it didn't seem to bother me too much tonight...

Maybe I'm letting my country music guard down... (pauses for a long time contemplating the implications of this...)