faboo mama

This is odd.

Yesterday, for the 4th time this year, we went to the Natural History Museum.  This means walking through the rose garden as Exposition Park.  As usual, I fully charged my camera’s battery the night before.  I can usually get about 300 photos on one charge.  Inside the museum, I took about 12 photos and the battery indicator read ‘full’.  Step out to the rose garden and it’s red.

This has happened to me all 4 times this year and 3 times last year.  I even take an extra camera that takes AA batteries, making sure the batteries are new.  When I whip out that camera, the batteries are dead.  My phone, which is fully charged also reads low battery.

It’s the strangest thing.  I’ll try to shoot a photo and the camera will just shut down.  Once we leave the rose garden, everything is back to reading full.  It matters not, where in the rose garden I am.  And to make it worse, it only seems to happen to me.

Mysteries of the universe…

Again.

Back in May and June of 2006, I bought two cameras.  They both did pretty well, but then they both started having problems around the same time.  A couple of months ago, my Samsung pretty much bit the dust.  It’s bad enough that the lens barely opened when it was turned on, but then it just stopped opening.  Nothing would happen!  I put in new batteries and nothing.  Oh well.  We still got an Olympus and that takes better macro shot, indoor shots and zooms a bit more.  Besides, it ran on a lithium ion battery, so I just charged it every night and life was good.

Until I spilled coffee on the charger.

Then I no camera, but my cell phone camera.  I hate cell phone photos.  I could buy another charger, but remember we’re broke.  My logic was that if no one was hiring us for jobs, then I don’t necessarily need it right now.  I can wait until we get a check.

The other day, Alton did something incredibly cute and I really wanted a picture.  I grabbed the Samsung.  Looked at it sternly, shook it, sighed at it and then put in new batteries again.  I pressed the button and it came on.  Yaw–what?  It Came On!  Whoo-hoo!

So, life is good because I have a working camera again.  Still, the Samsung is broken.  I used to have 8 working settings.  Now only half of them work and the 4th one actually only shoots in blue.  ???  Yesterday, I was at Fry’s spending the last of our money on ink and paper so we can do a print job for client and I found a charger for the Olympus.  This after calling 3 different Fry’s and having all of them tell me that they do not carry chargers for my battery.   To make it even more irresistible, it was affordable.  Yippee!

So, we may not be able to eat, but I can at least shoot photos of us starving to death.