And now I know kombucha tastes like a smoothy made from basil and sour kraut. 

Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power - announcement posters

 I have to say I like the posters for the upcoming series. I can only hope it won't completely and utterly suck. 

I must be ovulating, as I just saw a trailer for a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez (Isn't she, like, 52?) and thought awww, now I could totally watch a movie like this, I am sure it ends lovely!

In between watching Yellowjackets and Lamb, I suppose.

It's been almost sunny, almost almost, but with intermittent bouts of blizzards, strong winds and some rain. I wanted to go on a longer doggy-walk, a mini hike, up the river to the lakes a few towns over, say fifteen miles or so, and the General wouldn't let me, worried I might get eaten by a bear. Neither of us has ever seen a bear, but you know what they say about being killed by a cow: chances are very small, but never zero.

Had an almost nice dream, too. Did I mention I found a tiny fossil?

And today I misidentified a big bright dot in the sky. 

Spent the next two hours standing on top of a hill, crunching frozen grass, looking at it, waiting for dawn, wondering wtf, brain. 

But I did find my first official fossil a wee while later, so. Yay. 

... And another one...

 G: "What did you eat?"

Me: "Potatoes."

G: "Wouldn't that make you a cannibal?"

General's line of the week

 Me: "I read a good Game of Thrones fanfic last night, well written, good finish."

G: "Ye? Who puts it into whom?"

Me: "The Night King puts it into Sansa Stark."

G: "Wouldn't his dick freeze to death if he stuck it into that?"

Brutal.

First hiccup

So, I set the camera up and tuck it under the parka to look like I'm in the middle of giving birth to a xenomorph, setting out to test the novelty. And I am new; I don't really make any good photos and my format settings are all wrong. I christen it by shooting Lyra, as Marki also made his first shot of her. 

Underexposed, wrong warmth settings and grainy

The first pickie ever taken by Marki

The whole walk is tiresome, I am distracted, nervous, and I woke up this morning at 4:47, to find G's message photo of the adapter. He sent his son home early just to deliver it. I couldn't really get any other work done.

I try to download the photos, sure, that worked, try to open them ... Not working. Why isn't it working? They are not even opening properly. I google the common issue and find out that Adobe doesn't support the new Canon's format, because reasons.

Okay. Okay. Think. There is talk of Lightroom updates, I could try getting that. I never used it before, but when in need ... Or, if all else fails, I can try shooting in .JPG and making the most of those until I find a solution.

Admittedly, Photoshop is my second main tool of the trade. There are functions there I use absolutely for every photo I ever edit and there's a reason I shoot them in a dull lifeless neutral style, because it offers the widest range of edits. I'm not married to it, but I am very much used to it. The General calls the man we got the camera from and he says that the very latest PS version DOES indeed work with CR3.

Half of the good news. Now all I need is a five years younger Photoshop. On the plus side, the subscription is very reasonable. However, I be a boomer dum dum when it cometh to such advanced software engineering as downloading a program. It just wouldn't work. After several failed attempts, we called G's parents' young neighbour, and he remotely took over my comp and set the whole thing up. Like a proper IT guy, he tried explaining what we were doing wrong and how this works and we were just nodding into the phone, yes, yes, ahah, oh, right?.. 

But, a long day's work, we're one step closer to making good photos with a new machine.