Today was my last (difficult) final, and I got a chance to wander around downtown! Not like this is anything terribly out of the ordinary (because it isn’t) but I take any chance I get to wander about by myself in the city, because, well, it’s awesome.

I was given a new camera this weekend by my Aunt & Uncle! It was pretty sweet, apparently my Aunt’s parents were going to throw it out, it was her granddad’s, but nobody had any use for it, except her neice in the US of A! Sweet, eh?

(A friend commented on facebook: “I love how you’re holding a camera taking a picture of yourself pretending to take a picture with a different camera!” Er… yes, that would be me. Being silly.)

Anyhow, it is my new favourite thing and I want to PLAY WITH IT. I ran to Camera World to get a battery, and they immediately did the whole, “Oh yeah! This is such-and-such, we’ll get it for ya….”

And stopped dead when they saw the size ratio difference of the battery they were holding, and the battery that came from inside of my camera. (Let’s just say you can’t replace a basketball with a tennis ball, eh?)

“Oh no. We’ve got to get Bill.”

So my helper runs off, a-shoutin’ for Bill. Bill, is, apparently, the Camera God or something, as my fellow merely holds the battery out in front of his nose and Bill says,
“Oh! Canon. Quickshot. Canonet. Magnesium. Batteries Plus.”

UM, first of all? Identifying the camera by looking at the battery? Very plus. Amazing, in fact. The salesman standing next to me sighed and said, “We reckon he spends his nights with flashcards.”

SO. Magnesium batteries it is. It’s on the list now. Hopefully I’ll get it a-workin’ soon! Not like I really should be paying to develop film at the moment, especially after finding those two necklaces at Forever 21 this morning, but still…