Sorry about the missed trip Walt. Even more sorry you did not take the opportunity to switch over to the the bright side.
On Sep 9, 2012, at 19:53 , Walt Gilbert wrote: > So, as it turns out, my trip to South Dakota has been canceled due to > unexpected family events relating to my niece and her daughter that will > prevent us from traveling. Consequently, all the money I'd saved up has been > freed to put toward another use. Having weighed my priorities with regard to > my future in photography, it occurred to me that my greatest need at the > moment was to get something approaching a modern computer. > > So, I went out and plunked down some cash for an Acer Aspire: > > AMD dual-core E-450 > 17.3" HD+ LED LCD display > AMD Radeon HD 6320 > 4 GB DDR3 > 500 GB HDD > DVD-Super Multi DL > > It's Windows 7, of course -- which experience has taught me to hate compared > to XP, but waddaygonnado. But, I figure I'm going to need it soon, as my > desktop is /extremely/ old and starting to have all the tell-tale issues of a > computer on its last legs. > > I thought about buying a new lens, but decided it would be pretty useless to > me if I didn't have an operable computer to work on my images with. So, yeah > -- I'm going to have to put off the trip to the Black Hills until spring, but > at least I'll have something reliable to work with in the interim. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

