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Misadventurous Melissa

Everyday is an adventure, or misadventure as the case may be. It is the latter that makes for the best stories, inspiring the name of my blog. I'm a nurse and an attorney (and way too silly sometimes). I am retired now. WELCOME to my blog! This is a work of fiction inspired by true events. The patients I refer to are a patchwork quilt of various patient's problems mixed together. If you think you recognize someone, you are wrong. These people do not really exist.

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Fuzzy Photos


Have my pictures been looking like crap lately? A little fuzzy perhaps? That's because my flash is no longer working. The orange low battery light flashes even after the battery has been fully charged. The only way I can get the camera to snap the picture is to turn the flash off. That means under low light conditions, having to hold my hands steady for about a second. It's a good thing that I'm not a neurosurgeon, because holding my hands steady is way beyond my abilities.

My project for today was to buy a new battery. Surely the problem had to be that my almost daily taking and downloading of pictures had worn the poor thing out. It wasn't easy, I had to go to three different stores to find the right one and a clerk actually asked me if I knew that the battery needs to be re-charged. Although I'm an idiot, even I knew that the battery was not a one time use battery. Imagine how expensive that would be at $45 a pop. Of course, I was polite to the well-meaning clerk who thought that I was even ditsier than I really am. Honest mistake.

Anyway, I got the battery and charged it, put it into the camera and was met, once again, with a flashing orange light. Not giving up so easily, I got a Q-Tip and cleaned the little metal things that the battery connects to. No luck. I even got out the instruction booklet out and read it. No help there either, although I did learn a useful tidbit of information. If the liquid crystal display ever breaks, I shouldn't put it in my mouth. Who would have known?

I don't know what I'm going to do. I could mail it to Olympus and ask them to fix it, but it might be cheaper and easier to just buy a new one. In the meantime, my pictures are going to be fuzzy.

(Sorry about the dirt under my fingernails. That's from eating pomegranates and won't wash off.)


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4 Comments:

At 11/01/2005 08:34:00 PM, Blogger Michelle said...

Just a thought, have a look at the Olympus website, they may offer a solution :)

 
At 11/02/2005 10:17:00 AM, Blogger Melissa said...

Thanks, Michelle. I'll try that.

 
At 11/02/2005 10:51:00 AM, Blogger Running2Ks said...

Well, the good thing about fuzzy pictures is it will have the Cybill Shepard in Moonlighting effect--everyone will look 10 years younger and everything will look clean :)

 
At 11/02/2005 11:01:00 AM, Blogger Melissa said...

You're right. I guess I should start taking more self-portraits while I have the opportunity to look my best. :)

 

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