I've Been Spanked!

OK, so not actually spanked in the sense that my bottom is red and sore from someone striking me. What Ricë did was to shake us up, give us a virtual spanking. She told us to stand up, close our eyes, turn around, and then point to something on our worktable and sketch it.

It took me 10 minutes to sketch my cellphone, a couple of hours to charge my new printer so I could print out the photo I took to accompany the sketch in my sketchbook/journal, and several more hours to get through the other intervening events in my life, as nice as they were. Finally, it's the next morning and I'm posting it!

I loved using my new Panasonic Zumix camera that The Sports Fan bought me for Christmas to take it's photo. I propped the phone up on a fat, squishy nail file on my laptop's keyboard and took several photos, trying to get rid of the flash from the flash. So I settled for one that had it in a less obtrusive way. Interestingly old Sony S-145 might have been better at this. The new camera is way better at people pictures than the S-145.

The really cool thing, in my opinion, was finally using my Polaroid PoGo printer to print out the photo. (I blogged about it here. And how cool is this? You can actually get it with a digital camera inside now!) It connects to my laptop and cellphone via Bluetooth and to the Zumix via a cable. I couldn't find the cable and had forgotten and downloaded all the photos to my laptop anyway, so I used the Bluetooth connection to print. It's pretty easy if the printer has its special paper loaded and is charged up and turned on. Just make sure that your laptop's Bluetooth is turned on and that you've previously paired the two devices (that's a Bluetooth thing), select the photo you want to print in Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer), right click, and select "to Bluetooth" then the device. it took way longer to type how to do it than it does to actually do it! When the photo pops out, you just peel the stick-um off the back and stick the little 2" x 3" Zink paper (Zero Ink) into your journal.

I just wish my camera had Bluetooth so I could eliminate the cable or downloading to the computer!