Erm. Scheduled, but late: busy, busy….

This post was supposed to have been made a couple of days ago. In fact it was scheduled, and my Reminder app duly rang its little bell, but in the press of events (which for the life of me I can no longer recall, so important were they), I allowed the moment to pass. Still, this is the first time in months that I have posted so soon after another post. And what have I to say for myself? Well….nothing to do with cameras, computers, or astronomy…

I have spent a good deal of time in the past few weeks making changes to my house, first in the dining room and (so-called) living room, putting in a new floor, and then in the kitchen (the real living area), doing a little work putting finishing touches on a vent installation and reworking the video screen, but mostly admiring the paint work Daniella has done in re-coloring the kitchen cabinets and renewing the walls themselves. While I was busily cutting floorboards and fitting them carefully into position, Daniella was also painting the living and dining rooms as well as the main entrance area, for a fairly major transformation of the look of the house. Since the family room and main floor washroom were updated last year, the only rooms left to be done on the main floor are my office area and the mud room/laundry room.

And those will probably be my make-work projects for the next few months (until the Raspberry Pi finally shows up).

Scheduling updates? Might work…. And a comment on LX-7 uses

I really must add an item to my Reminders list. Otherwise this blog will only be updated when I run across the maintenance app on my iPad, and that is becoming a rare occurrence as my iPad habits become more ingrained.

And while I’m here, let me note that posting and updating through the app has been a lot smoother than trying to connect over Safari on the iPad, where any attempt to go back and modify a post has resulted in a crash. I haven’t tried to make edits in quite a while, so I’m not certain whether this is new behavior or not, but it’s certainly irritating right now.

I’ll try to post a couple of LX-7 images in the next week or two. I picked one up through Kijiji a couple of weeks ago, but I haven’t done much with it yet as I am wrapped up in a reno project at home. I can say that the improvements over the LX-5 are somewhat mixed in value. The lens is better, but I can’t attach the camera to a telescope anymore. I was trying out the LX-5 for solar observations (difficult to get the exposure correct) and had hoped to replace that camera entirely, but it looks as though I’ll have to hang on to it until someone figures out a method for attaching the LX-7 to a scope. Bad news for birders, I suppose, but not a major disadvantage for other users.