Canon EOS Rebel

May 12
2009
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Canon EOS RebelOur camera finally bit the dust. We have been looking at replacing it with the Canon EOS Rebel XS 10.1 Megapixel. It’s a birthday slash mother’s day present for my wife, Mari. The reviews for the Canon are really good and it would be a major step up for us in digital photography. Our thinking is that with all the kids sports going on it would be nice to be able to have a rapid shot picture taking machine at our disposal. Hopefully we can get a good picture or two out of a hundred, 😉

The cost is up there, around $600 bucks so I got to looking around on EBay and found that people are selling them brand new in the box from $350 to $450 every day, hmmm. I guess it’s about time for us to make an EBay purchase. I’ve had friends buy plenty from EBay but I have never jumped in. A little scared but I think that it will be ok as long as the seller’s reviews are good…right?

Written by Benny in: Family, Geek Talk, General |

Baseball 2009

May 12
2009
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So far the Zack and Zoe have been doing very well in baseball this season.

Zack has a record of 3 wins and 1 loss which puts them in a solid second place in the league for now. Zoe, in T-Ball, I think has won 2 games and lost 2 games. It’s hard to tell in T-Ball, we don’t keep score, but yet they do, who knows. Anyhow, it looks like Zack’s team, the Astros, will have a chance at the state tournament this year. I know that it is early because it is an 18 game season for him but they are looking good in comparison to the other teams.

Zoe had a great game tonight. We do coach pitch for three balls then two off the tee. Zoe hit it out in left field from the coach and one off the tee. She made two really good plays at second base. She was pretty excited about it all.

Zack has been making several good plays at first base and his hitting has started to improve. He’s a big kid at 12 years old standing at 5’4 at about 170 pounds so he should be hitting very well due to his size. He is coming out of his batting slump so I should have more to say about it later. He towers over most of the kids his age but he hasn’t really figured out how to use his height to his advantage yet. He’s doing very good anyway.

Written by Benny in: Family |