You are a procrastinator. And time is short and before you know
it the clock will strike one and those ghosts will start arriving and after
that there will be no time for anything but regret and suffering. So throw off
that chain and get out and do something about it before you become an annual
special on ABC!
Fortunately there are things which can save your bacon or
tofu if you are avoiding fats.
The Coos Art
Museum has some nifty neat and cool T-shirts with
the CAM logo on them
and while you are being the height of fashion you can promote the museum and
help support it all at the same time.
For those who fear buying the wrong size the museum can
still help you out. They also have wonderful etched wine glasses so you can
encourage the bad habits of your bestest friends and support the museum too.
Get enough people with bad habits exercising before New
Year’s Eve and half of the fund raising goal for fiscal ‘14 can be met and
think of how self-righteous you’ll feel.
Don’t forget the Rental Sales Office where you can buy art
from the people who really know good art and don’t have to say, “I don’t know
art but I know what I like.”
Good art is a lasting investment and think of how silly
you’d look with your CD framed and hanging on the living room wall? Think of
how many CD’s you’d have to have to fit over that extra long sectional? (And if
you have that many CDs why aren’t you a sustaining member of the museum
anyway?)
But wait there’s more, catalogues, OCMA posters, fine art
prints and a few Fishing T-shirts left over from the fishing show which no one
bought because they were not really eye catchers and if you buy them then the
museum will have more room to stock stuff that you would like to buy and so
you’d be doing a public service.
But wait there’s still more, just not at the museum.
Batteries. I know, it does sound a lot like socks but it
isn’t. Just think of how long you could survive without Double A batteries, no
remote…that’s a serious crisis, you think government deadlock is a huge problem
let the remote go out right before NCIS and see how fast the Long Sufferin
takes to kick your tookis out the door for a battery run.
Now be a good boy scout and have a bunch of batteries on
hand. I like the Kirkland 48 packs
for everyday use. They ain’t Coppertops, but they cost a tenth as much and do
pretty well. They’ll keep your remote remoting, the flash light burning, the garage
door opener opening and the hand-held adult entertainment device you have
hidden in the drawer by the bed
doing…you know exactly what it is doing and aren’t you ashamed but try
to get through a week with dead batteries and see how your sense of shame fares
against your other needs.
Oh yes, they will power your DSLR I told you you should go
online and buy. I carry a set of four when I go out, just in case the power runs
out before my trigger finger gets a cramp. Came in handy when I was at Shore
Acres, sure enough forty frames in the light went out and I had to call on the Kirkland’s
to step up and bring back the light. That or wait until next Christmas to get
my shot of the whale.
Now for continued heavy use, nothing beats Duracell. I know
what the consumer people say and they are wrong. I’ve been using Coppertops so
long the were just a little tan and back then they were called Mallory
Duracells and they were still the go to power source for any serious photographic
application. Those old Honeywell strobes could suck a house dry just powering
up and without Mallory’s you’d be two shots in and staring at the dark.
So Duracells are always the right answer and now they have
the Duracell Ultra, let me tell you these guys are the bomb. I loaded my Pentax
K-x with a set when I first got my grubby, little hands on it and the ran for
37 days and 288 shots about 25% flash and that is nearly a third longer than
they are supposed to last.
Sure it is anecdotal and unsupported by empirical evidence
but try it and see if the folks at Consumer Reports are talking out of their
hats or if the Ole Trawler is right on the money.
Now if this person you ignored until the last minute has
been really, really good get him a set of Sanyo Eneloop Double As and the
charger. It will set you back a whole twenty bucks and at this late date you
should be glad you can get out of the hole for a double sawbuck.
These are supposed to be according to all of the electronic
magazines the very best rechargeable batteries on the market. I can’t confirm
or deny but for folks who think Sony, Nikon and Canon are a cut above the rest this
is the battery for them. (I’ll let you know how they work for me if I have been
good enough for Santa to bring me a set.)
Now I know there is nothing in this list which is glamorous
or ritzy, but you did wait until past, the very lat minute so why not give it a
try. Then you can salvage something from this year to build on for next year
when you will shop early and not be looking for stuff at the very last, past
minute and you’ll be able to get that Texting Barbie or the newest Smart Phone
or the Windows 14 tablet and be the one everyone talks about for the whole next
year.
Or you could just go buy socks.
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