You have to shake your head in disbelief when you get your camera back from repair (after a two month absence) and you realize that a whole nob is not functioning. Yesterday both Ed and I watched youtubes late into the night, trying to figure out if it was something in the settings. It was not. This morning I called back Fujifilm repair and sure enough, they tell me it's probably their fault -- in replacing one part they probably disconnected something else.
Well okay, but I'm taking a photographable vacation next week. I mean, you have to laugh.
What to do, what to do... Oh, they'll send me a loaner (if I pay for the shipping). They'll put a priority tag on the repair. In other words, they'll try to help, but it wont really help and so I'll probably keep my sweet but malfunctioning camera for the trip and make do with what it does well and not worry about all that it doesn't do until after I come back.
Mondays are nicely slow for me and so I allow myself to think about how to prepare for next week. I am so filled with all the events that made the last two years what they were! So much distress for so many! So much worry! Months of interruption, and that's if you're lucky. Loss, if you're not so lucky. Months of uncertainty about everything. And of course, for me, the person who lives half her life out of a suitcase or at least thinking about packing the next one, I have had two years of no travel.
And it was so sudden! One week I was ordering a replacement suitcase, changing my flights seats around online, the next week Ed and I shut ourselves in the farmhouse and pretty much stayed there. (I may be the only one who has yet to go inside a grocery store... But on this one at least just call me spoiled. I have no particular trepidation about going shopping at this point.)
Well, I'll be testing the travel waters very soon and that will be possibly the most weird travel experience I will ever have. Nothing like what I will have done in the past.
But for today, we're doing the usual farmette stuff. Morning walks...
(remember when the pines were snow covered?)
Breakfast still outside...
And for me -- well, the gradual gathering of needed stuff for next week. An updated simcard for my WiFi hotspot. A check on all the proper masking -- colorful KN95s and surgicals, a few solid good cloth with filtration for strolling in public spaces. Dusting off shoes that are something other than the clogs or flip flops that I wear around here. And a check of my camera to see which parts still work. Most do. We will survive!
