So, I'm allergic to dust.

Fuck.

The allergist gave me that "80 pricks" test or whatever, and dust (dust mites) were far and away the biggest thing on my arm, followed by feathers, something else, and cats.  Also, cottonwood trees.  Nothing much else registered, so there's that.  He gave me two prescription nasal sprays, so we'll see how that goes.  Maybe they'll deaden my nasal passages to the point of allergy immunity?  We'll see.

Anyway, that's that.

I have three or four people interested in a BRANDED shoot sometime soon - let's see how many I actually manage to land.  So far, my flake-to-shoot ratio is abysmal.  I'm trying to be more specific and faster at responding so I can rule out my own potential flakiness from the equation.  If I can get 4 more shoots in before I leave, I'd be a happy camper, I'll tell you that much.

'nuff of this - back to work.  Gotta update the MWS homepage.  After that, it's figuring out how to make stew from leftover ribs.

The other day, I made the comments shortlist on Wine.Woot.

I know that this is pretty much just a "most recent decent comments" section, but still - I'd like to crow about it anyway.

Of course, I bought the wine and I've been to the vineyard more than the rest of the wooters combined (maybe), so it's not that impressive, but still, I like that I made it on there.  The wine was on a great special - $20/bottle for a bottle that they usually charge $45 for, so that's nice.  And it'll be good to have some excellent pinot to drink on hand.

In other big news, I bought the new Canon T2i - the first SLR that really made me want to replace my aging XTi. So far, the biggest difference (and I've only shot test shots), is the low-light performance.  It's amazing what a difference ISO6400 makes when you're used to shooting at a max of ISO1600.  Couple that with the fact that I'm soon going to get a lens that I'm buying specifically because it's going to give me similar results to the lens on Dad's Yashica, and you end up with a happy Matt.

Once I've taken my first real set of pictures, I'll post some up here, of course, but they'll have to be shrunken some, because 18MP is a shitload of megapixels.

Additionally, the T2i shoots FullHD video, so this is going to be the camera for my brownie projects in the forseeable future, which is awesome.  I've been through too many tape-based minicams that all suck ass and break after no time at all, so it's time to upgrade to something in a product family I trust (I still love my XTi and am keeping it to shoot random crap with).  I can't wait to have my first FullHD brownie project to post.  Fun times.

Okay, the full (huge) wine.woot thing is after the break.