March 20

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It was March 20 1984 that I took delivery of my first car, a Honda CRX.  I had received a call a few days earlier that it was expected.  The anticipation nearly killed me!  My first car.  When I took delivery it had only six miles on the odometer.  Sweet!!

24 years later I finally decide to come back to an SLR. Just as I did with my first car, so I did with my new SLR.  When I get serious about something, I read all I can, research, ask questions, reflection and so on.    At the end of it all I chose the Pentax K20D.  Through it all my wife did her best to look and sound interested.

I awoke this morning and checked the shipping details.  To my amazement/surprise and great delight, it was in transit and scheduled to be delivered today (one day turnaround when I asked for two - bless you Amazon). :-)  Anticipation.  UPS man delivers late in the afternoon.  Fine I can wait.  He comes.  Everything is here.  Sweet!

Charge the battery.  YIKES, I forgot the memory card.  Sigh.  Run out and get one.  Snap.  there's the first picture - over and done with.  Whew.  

The camera feels really very nice in my hands.  Ergonomically there is one adjustment I would make but that is all.

The memories of my SLR days are beginning to come back to me.  Woo-hoo!!  (I can't believe the manual is 284 pages).

Well, I'll be looking to walk around with it this weekend and snap some more and play with the settings.  I should probably get scientific... nah...
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ha ha, probably true. When I purchased my iMac G5 I watched the FedEx page like an addiction. From the pick up in Shanghai (where is sat for a few days to Anchorage and onward). I saw it was on the truck for delivery, ran out the door to where I was having it delivered. I got there just as the driver was dropping it off.

So I guess that my 84 CRX; the iMac G5 and the Pentax K20D are my most highly anticipated purchases.

My wife can rest assured since she was a choice and not a purchase!