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So, if I ever did write a book, this is what it would be, a collection of smaller things I've already written over several years, both in paper journals and on this blog. Several of you wouldn't be very entertained reading it because you'd already have read 80% of it before. It would be a collection of shorter essays on various subjects I guess. Sometimes I wonder if you should wait till you're old to write such a thing, but I don't know about that. Lots of other "young guys" have written things it doesn't seem like they should've written yet, so why not me? Actually, there are probably lots of dumb old people, as many as there are young ones. There is likely as much knowledge on this side of 40 as there is on the other. Perhaps not as much wisdom, but knowledge, yeah.  New subject: I got a new camera! The Canon S2IS, 5 megapixel res., 12x optical zoom! Pretty nice. I've had a Canon A40 for a few years now and have loved it. Canon has great lenses, which equals superior photos. Great feature set on these cameras too, even the lower end ones. That A40 is only a 2 megapixel but takes great pictures.I've already played with the new one some and trust it will be just as good, with a better resolution and that freakin' amazing 12x zoom! OK, I'm geekin' out here, but listen, it also has what I think of (as an at least quasi art photographer) as the coolest feature - super macro setting! aagggh! This means I can lay on the ground and put the lens literally on top of a tiny flower and get perfect focus. I think I might pee my pants. If you couldn't tell, I'm excited about it. Good thing too, maybe this is a tip, Canon just came out with the S3IS, which is only one more megapixel and not that much more as features go - but that means, now the S2IS dropped in price by like $170! So, I got a good deal. Good deals are good.  As you may have figured out already, I'm going to Ireland in June - by myself - for a week. I'm not speaking at some secret Irish conference. I'm not going for work. I'm not going to plant churches in the Irish countryside. I'm not even going to climb Croagh Patrick barefooted.My insides, in some odd way, have longed after this place since I was a child. I always promised myself I'd go before I was 40. Well, it's that I will be in this very year so I guess I'd better get meself goin' then. My good wife made the suggestion, that "we send you to Ireland." And I said, "we don't have to.. OK." This is one of the reasons I got the new camera now, so I can take lots and lots of really good pictures while I'm there. And I'm sure there will be the odd movie clip of traditional music being played in a pub I'll share with you. One of the places I'll be staying is in Western Ireland, in Ennis, which is actually one of the most technologically advanced towns in Ireland. They started there, apparently, a few years back as an experiment in connecting to the outside world so there is much internet access, etc. in the market town of Ennis, which is also famous as a centre of traditional music in the country. I'll try to drag myself away and drive to other places while I'm there. So, I'll be renting a car, staying in bed & breakfasts, driving around, eating, drinking, sitting on hillsides crying I imagine, and hopefully talking to people for a week. I'm planning one day in Dublin and possibly a pint with Kyle, whom I'm trying to get to take a ferry over for the afternoon. We'll see. the rest of my time will likely be spent in the West, in fairly rural country. I know enough about what I want to see, that, if anything, I'll have to trim it down quite a bit. I promise lots of photos of old ruined Abbeys, high Crosses, and castles. Yeah, and megalithic stone tombs and dolmens. It's hard to stop thinking about it. Did I mention I've never been outside the United States? I'm grateful that my first trip out will put my feet on Irish sod. technorati tags > writing, books, blogging, photography, digital cameras, canon cameras, ireland, ennis ireland ::: ::: permalink ::: e-mail me :::
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is a burden without a reliever." "...I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be
completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self."
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