Sunshine and I went for a walk in the neighborhood with Puppy Gracie. It is usually such a nice place, but months without any significant rain have made everything green turn to an awful tan color. Mom says I should think that I could be stuck up north, but a pretty snowscape would look better than this. Sunshine stopped to have her photo taken with an orange tree. She reached up to touch an orange and it came off in her hand. Looking scandalized, Sunshine tried to find a place to put the orange back on the tree before somebody saw her stealing oranges. I explained to her that taking an orange was not a problem.

I took Sunshine out to lunch today. We split a giant ham calzone (actually, that is a medium one; the giant “family sized” one is twice the size) at a place called “Mark and Mindy’s” on Route 41. The price was good too: Only $7.50 with the ham topping.

My new camera finally arrived. It totally kicks ass (which is why it was back ordered for 3 weeks). It is a Sony Cybershot DSC-WX9: 16.2 megapixels and 1080i video recording. It has a cool panaromic photo feature (you just hold down the shutter and pan the camera around), HDR processing (takes 3 versions of the same photo in rapid succession at 3 different exposure levels and stitches them together to eliminate shadows/over-exposed areas), a neat “background defocus” tool that gives photos an “SLR” look, and even the ability to take photographs while shooting video simultaneously. Only $150 at Best Buy.

Oh: Geek note. I’ve given up using Google Chrome. First, having 3 browser tabs open would require about 500 megabytes of RAM (and my task manager always showed twice as many instances of Google Chrome being open as there were tabs open). Second, for some reason on my computer, Skype and Google Chrome hated each other and caused an actual BSOD whenever I used both at the same time. Third, all of a sudden Adobe Flash started crashing all the time and I said, “Enough is enough.” I switched back to Firefox.