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Camera Update

3.12.2007 — 6 Comments

We started praying last night for God to allow us to get a new camera somehow.

This morning I had an e-mail asking me for permission to use one of my Flickr photos by a lady in the UK. I humbly replied and allowed her to use my photo and she decided that she would give me $100 for allowing her license to use my photo in her work project! It’s a photo I took 2-years ago of hands lifted in worship at our area-wide See You After The Pole service.

So, camera-fund tally is $100!

Tonight, 25 of us enjoyed a bowling outing for SNAC (Sunday Night After Church). We just got home at around 10PM and I quickly downloaded the pictures and here’s what they all turned out like:

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That’s right, Stevan’s “other baby”, his Olympus 770 Ultra-Zoom, is officially “dead”. It won’t even take pictures anymore. Halfway through the night it would only allow me to turn it on to the video-mode setting. Each video is corrupted, too!

What does this mean?

Well, it means no more pictures or videos until we invest in another camera. For our family this is one of those unexpected purchases that we haven’t planned on. We’re going to be praying about this one!

In the mean time maybe we’ll make use of the youth group camera (the one with the broken screen after its Haiti voyage!)

Here’s what we need from the stevansheets.com readership:

A comment-based review of YOUR digital cameras! Give us your make/model/mega-pixel/zoom-capabilities/etc. Tell us how you like it, how long you’ve had it and if you’d suggest it as our next family-camera!

Can you help us?

I had an eye appointment yesterday with Dr. Nix (he wouldn’t have made it as a barber with that name).

I told him that I’ve always wanted to have contacts that I could sleep in. He said, “okay”. I laughed.

Since the first time I got contacts in High School I was always told that I would never have the “comfortable” contacts that were already available and would never be able to sleep in contacts! Turns out that technology has allowed those of us with astigmatism to FINALLY have contacts that we can sleep in!

Thank you Bausch & Lomb! Thank you Dr. Nix!

So my new chiropractor gave me a sermon CD today. This morning, actually, on my way out of his office after my second adjustment. The sermon is by a Rev. Paul Washer, a Southern Baptist evangelist given to about 5,000 youth back in 2002 in Montgomery, AL.

We listened to about 20-minutes on the way to Fort Wayne tonight where we enjoyed a great dinner with Glen and Natalie Robinson.

We listened to the remainder of the sermon on the way home and Jess and I both exclaimed, “wow” at the close.

Rev. Washer’s message is available for download in mp3, pdf, and even wmv formats over at SermonAudio.com. Direct link here.

More information on Rev. Washer at heartcrymissionary.com.

If you have the 60+ minutes to listen to the message, I suggest you do.

If you’d rather read it, here’s the pdf!

Tried to call my mom this morning to wish her a happy birthday, but found out through my sister that she and my Dad have gone away on a 5-day retreat together!

Happy birthday to her!

For her birthday I’m going to see a chiropractor as she is a firm believer that chiropractics is genuine and that the back pain I have can be cured by the helpful hands of a local chiropractor. We’ll see.