NightOwl Cat wrote:
UGH. Glad my week has been just powerpoints, videos, and casings (sorting mail according to the way it's supposed to be passed out), other than the driving fun on Monday. Saturday is my first day of actual OJT after academy, and we're due for thunderstorms. Had to go buy a rain suit and boots.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Boy this is the week for throwing $$$ at stuff that's no fun! Sheila reminded me that we need to get the newest Shingles vaccine.............$660 for the two of us, $330 now then the same in two months for the booster. Back to the insurance subject, the pharmacist was pleased to tell us that Medicare pays zero, our supplemental insurance chipped in seven bucks (woohoo!) I just decided that it would cost me a lot more than that if I got Shingles so we bit the bullet.
Cost aside, I'm glad to hear that your both getting that protection. My father in law got Shingles later in life - very painful - and worrying too if it gets anywhere near an eye.
Exactly. I can't wait until they get this vaccine on base. I will definitely be getting it when it does. This new one is supposed to be far more effective too. One long sickness and I'm done.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Boy this is the week for throwing $$$ at stuff that's no fun! Sheila reminded me that we need to get the newest Shingles vaccine.............$660 for the two of us, $330 now then the same in two months for the booster. Back to the insurance subject, the pharmacist was pleased to tell us that Medicare pays zero, our supplemental insurance chipped in seven bucks (woohoo!) I just decided that it would cost me a lot more than that if I got Shingles so we bit the bullet.
Thanks! We got the initial vaccine a few years ago, but my brother in law Doc in Florida counseled us to get this new one as soon as it was released. Oddly, Sheila got a milder case of shingles from the vaccine we got a few years ago. The "mild" case convinced her that you wouldn't want that or anything stronger, ever. And yes, there's the blindness thing. So, our upper left arms are a little achey but we'll take that.
CPS just sent me a tracking number for my 24TSE, it'll arrive Monday via Fed-Ex. Perfect timing for my Tues/Wed/Thurs architectural shoot. My Platinum CPS membership is worth it's weight in gold in these situations.
Good morning! Just checking in to see how everyone is doing, I've not posted in awhile but I do look in now and again, shame the page numbers were cut as the stats for MA2A were always impressive! I've had recent trips to South Africa's Kruger NP for a safari and to Japan ostensibly for Phantoms, spending four days at Hyakuri whilst they are still there in numbers. Will try to post some more!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
CPS just sent me a tracking number for my 24TSE, it'll arrive Monday via Fed-Ex. Perfect timing for my Tues/Wed/Thurs architectural shoot. My Platinum CPS membership is worth it's weight in gold in these situations.
Jim,
Perhaps your recent incident could be considered as justification for the purchase of a backup copy of the 24TSE. You have backups for your bodies, and have various lenses that could act as backups for most focal lengths if your primary lens was damaged, why not the TSE, or TSEs (don't you have a 17TSE also)?
What would you do if you were on a job site somewhere far from home, that could only be done with the TSE, and you damaged it? What would you do in that situation if there were time constraints to the job, where it gets done now, or the opportunity is gone?
On the plus side, at least this time it wasn't a new camera lens combo, and it didn't end up at the bottom of a lake.
I've considered that possibility. I have back ups for everything, many things three deep. Fortunately the 24-70 bailed me out the other evening, but contrary to popular opinion that lens is not an architectural lens in the truest sense of the word and only serves as a patch. I've been holding out on a duplicate 24 TSE because of the rumors of a sequel series. Your point is a good one, if I was on an architectural interior shoot in a remote spot, I'd be dead in the water.The 24TSE is the only lens I don't have back up glass to replicate the 24 perspective. Guess I had better bite that bullet.
Some more from the Kruger, all taken from my rental car on a self drive safari. Used a D7200 and had the 200-500 attached to it the entire week, I love that lens so much!
bobl wrote:
Thought y'all would like to see this ...
Thanks Bob! I enjoyed that. I had the pleasure of seeing those Bearcats at the RI Airshow in 2014. Here's one accompanied by Steve Hinton flying an F7F Tigercat:
(Darn, just noticed the sensor spots, and the weird sky......)
Sorry we missed each other Joe! We bugged out this morning to 5 hours of 110 knots ground speed from Tuscaloosa to San Antonio. 50 knots on the nose the whole way home. Barf!
