User Guides vs. Assembly Instructions

Slowly I am learning the features of my new camera.

Very slowly.

It is a Canon Power Shot SX130 IS

with 12X Optical Zoom.

The User Guide is 180 pages.

I have always been very adept with assembly instructions.

I can pretty much always figure out how to fix things and build things.

My Dad & I work really well together with Ikea furniture.

My Mom & I work really well together with Wall Paper.

I'm logical and patient.

Where my skill is lacking is understanding User Guides and PS3 controls.

I'm a visual learner.

I can watch a How To Video once or twice and it sticks.

My learning style is like the Chinese proverb:

“Tell me and I'll forget;

show me and I may remember;

involve me and I'll understand.”

Today I figured out the Fish Eye effect feature.

Hilarious.

I took loads of photos of Adam & I looking completely wrong

and goofy and bug-eyed and I just couldn't stop laughing.

Crockett was interesting because as a Pug,

he already has a bug-eyed face with wide apart eyes

so they just looked like close ups.

He wasn't thrilled with me sticking the camera in his face today.

PUG BUG EYES!

He's just too cute.

Merry Christmas to Me and a Stupid Way to Die

I've pooled all my Christmas money together

(thank you to those who contributed xox)

and bought myself a new camera.

It is a Canon Power Shot SX130 IS

I am totally going to have to read the instruction manual.

There is a setting for *kids & dogs*.

The first few photos came out blurry.

It also did odd things to the lighting.

The lights in the Living Room were on but it focused in on Frosty.

It's really pretty outside. It's not windy & it is snowing nice big flakes.

I took a this shot on Auto from my kitchen window.

I HAD to take a photo of this:

There is a reason.

About 30 minutes ago, I didn't feel well.
I felt odd.
Mini panic attack? Hot flash? Irritable belly?
Whatever it was, it passed as fast as it arrived.

10 minutes later, Adam went to the kitchen & swore out loud.
He had a potato in the oven for an hour & the oven wasn't on.
The gas was on, it just didn't light.

This is the 1st place I have ever lived with a gas stove.
I love it. It bakes great. Doesn't burn everything.

With the messed up electrical in this bldg it doesn't always
make the click click click sound and light.

It is for this reason that I asked my folks to buy us a
Carbon Monoxide Detector for Christmas.
They did.
Last year.
I had to dust the box off before I took the photo.
If Adam & I were to die this way, I give permission
for everyone at our service to say we are idiots.

I was going to make myself a note to call my Dad & ask
him to come over & help me install it.
Then I took a closer look & it's a plug-in.
It says it right there on the front of the package.
Oh.....My......Goodness.

Thing is, seriously, the ONLY outlets in this apartment that
are not installed sideways on the base boards are
in the kitchen.

If I put this in the kitchen will it go off every time I use the stove?