My Best Buy addiction
After spending most of Thanksgiving weekend doing nothing but eating, I decided to take a break on Saturday by going to Best Buy.
It didn't occur to me until I pulled into the parking lot that this was the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and the store was likely to be sheer chaos. It didn't matter, though; it was too late for me to turn back. Once I'm in the parking lot of Best Buy, I have to go inside. Once I'm inside, I have to buy something. I can't help it. I have a Best Buy addiction.
I wonder if there's a twelve-step program for that?
While wandering through the store, aimlessly looking for nothing in particular, I stumbled across a killer deal on a Sony Handycam digital video camera. I've never owned a video camera of any kind (either digital or tape), but I'd been thinking of buying one recently.
I couldn't help myself. The camera sat there on its stand, wistfully repeating "Buy me. Buy me." I had no choice.
For the last two days, I've been experimenting with it, learning how everything works. The hard part was getting Windows XP to recognize the thing, using the supplied software.
Three bluescreens and about six reboots later, everything seems to be functioning properly. The video quality is outstanding, the image stabilization is an indispensable feature for my shaky hands, and the extended-life battery will let me shoot about 12 hours on a single charge.
I don't really know what I'm going to do with it just yet. I'm sure I'll use it when traveling, and I may do some video blogging of some kind. There's no telling how I'll end up using it, but having new toys is always loads of fun.