2005

7 November 2005

Yes it has been a while since I last updated this page. But as I was on vacation for a good portion of the months of September and October I am letting myself off with that excuse. But as I actually did take some pictures before I went on vacation I have finally gotten around to posting them, and so here are the latest additions as of today. 8 July 2005, 21 July 2005, 19 August 2005, 20 August 2005, 21 August 2005, 28 August 2005. if your interested I also have managed to post all my grandfather Bush’s slides they are located here Kenneth Bush's Pictures. I am still working on getting all the pictures from my vacation on my computer. For those of you that don’t know I use a film camera not a digital and the local photo shop is too antiquated to even consider having the ability to put pictures on disk. So with that said its still going to be a little while before I get those out.

5 July 2005

Well I finally have my film scanner back and I am very happy about it, I can now get to scanning some of these pictures. If you have been watching this page you may have noticed that I have added a few pages recently, and if you haven't been watching this page, then the ones I have added since getting my scanner back are. 8 June 2005, 4 June 2005, 07 March 2005, 10 February 2005, 12 February 2005, 27 December 2004, 15-18 December 2004, 1-10 December, and I have also added a new page to places I have been titled Singapore. A few of these pages will continue to get updated with new pictures as I scan them, most likely the pages to do with Singapore as I have a lot of film to scan but only want to put the better pictures forward.

26 May 2005

Got my film scanner in the mail today, and will be mailing it back in for repair again tomorrow. I was quite excited when I got a note from the post office telling me I needed to come pick up and sign for a package from Nikon. So I not so patiently waited for the post office to open. Rushed over as soon as they were and picked my package up, walked on back to my room. All the while in great anticipation of hooking my scanner back up to my computer and scanning my slides and film and getting my first real look at many of my recently taken pictures. It was not to happen though. as I was on my way back to my room I noticed that the contents of the box seemed a bit loose and not packed so well. that was my first indication that all may not be well, but ever hopeful I pushed the thought aside. happily back in my room I opened the box and not so much to my surprise at this point the film scanner had been packaged rather poorly allowing it to be bounced around inside the box. Well 'I think to myself' so long as it works what do I care what box or packaging it arrived in, its still all ok. Then I took the film scanner out of the double layer of bubble wrap (not nearly enough for something as sensitive as a film scanner) only to hear little tinking sounds inside the metal case. Ok starting to have serious concerns about it working now, but I still have some hope left Ill just plug it into the computer and see what happens. Turn it on, the little light comes on indication that the power is on, flashes a couple of times during its self test and then stays on solid. so far so good I guess. Next plug it into the computer and try to scan a picture. Plug it in, the computer happily recognizes the scanner and tells me that it is now ready to work. Oh good I think, I am ready for it to work too. Then I tried to scan a picture. That didn't go so well, all that I got from the scanner was a message telling me that it needs to be turned into Nikon for repair. Somehow I believe it. Needless to say Nikon has received a less than cordial letter from me describing my level of satisfaction with there service. Much to Nikons own credit I did receive a email back in about an hour asking me to send it back in, and telling me that they would reimburse me for all the shipping costs. I would prefer to have it here and working but baring that, and I have no choice in that matter it seemed like the reasonable thing for them to do. So I suppose that I get to wait for another month or two.

11 May 05

Well if it seems as though I haven't updated this page in a while its because I haven't. No I haven't stopped taking pictures, and yes I still have access to the internet, and no I haven't died, and no its not because I have been more lazy than usual. all those things aside there is a reason for it not being updated with more pictures. I have been taking pictures I have pictures that I need to post here from as far back as December 2004, and some more recent. but I haven't been unable to because my film scanner is broken. I have turned it in over a month ago now and am still waiting for the Nikon Service Center to repair it and send it back.