BaLtiMoRe RoLL: StAyinG HoMe FoR OnE MorE NiGHt

It turns out that we are not going to Philadelphia tonight after all, since our flight leaving from Philly tomorrow morning was cancelled. Apparently there is some severe weather in Ohio or something and I guess it must be bad enough that United is already afraid of it today.

Having just watched Six Days Seven Nights*, I am eager not to recreate a plane crash myself. Of course... if it meant being stranded on an island with Harrison Ford for a week, I suppose it would be ok. :)

(By the way, don't you hate it when bloggers link to a movie without telling you what it is? If it's not in the URL when I mouse over it, I'm not going to bother to click it to find out what you already should have told me.)

Anyway, what was I talking about? Oh, Philly, and how we're not going to fly out of there because apparently the weather is going to be too dangerous. However, United had no problem putting us on a flight out of Baltimore. So I'm a little nervous about it because Baltimore's not exactly thousands of miles away from Philadelphia, but hopefully if the weather is really that bad they'll just cancel the Baltimore flight too. Or more hopefully, the weather will be fine and all will be well.

Did I mention that while I'm in San Francisco I'm going to be borrowing Chiaroscuro's Digital Rebel? ... Yes, I know that I did. But I am so excited! (She doesn't need it because she also owns a beautiful 5d.) I've already read the manual cover to cover, to make sure I know everything I need to know ahead of time. I know how to switch between focus points, I finally learned what A-Dep is, and ... well, truthfully it all works very similar to my own camera so it's not that hard. One weird thing that's different though is that the Rebel doesn't allow you to select the metering yourself; the camera does it for you, and even uses different metering depending on whether the camera is set to aperture priority or manual. So if I want Evaluative in AV, fine, that's what I get. But if I switch to Manual, it switches to Center Weighted. That's kind of annoying. I can't imagine who's brain child that was. Even my PowerShot Pro1 allows me to select the metering. (Not surprisingly, this is one of the things they fixed in the newer Rebel XT.)

See, this is the real reason I'm going to San Francisco. To take pictures.

*Incidentally, it was a pretty bad movie.