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I have to say, I don’t know what the heck happened to last week. Monday and Tuesday were okay — in fact, I quite liked Tuesday due to some unexpected niceness — but the day also ended with a very sore throat.

Wednesday and Thursday are a bit of a blur though, because I felt really sick. I took those days off, and I did work from home on Friday, although honestly I still don’t feel all that great, even now. I have an appointment with a bottle of NyQuil in about fifteen minutes.

This weekend snuck by me. On Friday afternoon, my friend Anthony came over, and we played Rock Band for a few hours, and then some WoW with another friend, Nasser, who happened to be turning 28 (years old, not level 28) that day.

Saturday, I went to Nasser’s house with all of my gear in tow (Xbox 360, Rock Band setup, literally four plastic rock guitars so we could play Guitar Hero III if someone wanted, at least six board games), and got to his house at about noon. However, most of the rest of his friends cheesed out. A couple of people made it around 5pm, and we had tons of fun playing Rock Band and a partial game of Robo Rally before we had to call it a night.

I had a ton of fun at Nasser’s, but let me tell you, I feel like I paid for it. It was an absolute blast but I honestly probably wasn’t ready for that much social activity on those two days.

Yesterday, Lisa and I went out, picked up a lovely new camera (a Canon SD750, for reference, on sale at Best Buy even), and then Gryphon and I went with Lisa to UNM so she could do some field work with a GPS for one of her classes. The work included waiting at one point for a half hour, as well as sampling a path twice with an hour in-between samples. During that time, Lisa’s parents called and wanted to come meet us to show off their new Subaru Tribeca, so we saw that too.

After the work at UNM, we then drove out to the far reaches of northeast Albuquerque to find a survey marker and stood there with the GPS for several minutes, tracking the location. GPS accuracy is still only good in roughly a 15-foot range, and even though we were standing still, the GPS inaccuracy makes it look like we were pacing back and forth in a small area. After the sampling, it was off to pick up some Subway and head home.

So, here’s some pictures taken with the new camera yesterday! These pictures can all be found in my Geoventures set on Flickr. The full-sized 7.1 megapixel images are available for view there too. Some of the shots — especially the macro — have just stunning detail. I’m quite enjoying the new camera.