but I'm in too deep

[aruan]

Mea cupla, everyone. Just realized I never unlocked the last set of Euro!Sync photos. Post 6/6 can be found here.

Finally consolidated all my European adventure pictures - 1270. That's one thousand, two hundred, and seventy, and it would've been even more had the video card fiasco not happened. *boggles* No wonder Kelsey and Jess took to calling me Paparazzi. Of course, that's all the pictures, not just the ones I kept, so the final figure is definitely not that high, but wow. Doing the math at what it would've cost had I not bought my digital - at 40 pictures per roll of Kodak Advantix film, that would've been 32 total. At the going rate, assuming I'd brought all of them with me:

32 x $3.50 (without shipping charges, as this figure is from an online dealer)
= $112

Plus processing, which at warehousephoto.com is:

32 x $19 (for single 4x6 prints, again without shipping)
= $608

For a total of: $112 + $608 = $720 (plus whatever kind of batteries said camera takes). Which is roughly a hundred dollars more than the cost of my digital camera (whose sharp, zoom-happy, true-to-life-color babies I want to have), a larger memory card, a small USB transfer device, an extra battery, and shipping. Prints would set me back a mere $0.24 each. *pats self on back for ingenious purchase*

Did some research on a charm I acquired of Archange Michel (that's Saint Michael to you) for my Paris commemorative, and I was right in remembering that it was a dragon he fought. His feast is on the 29th of September (my birthday's the 30th) and is the patron saint of fighters and "guarantor of good right," which I'm interpreting as justice-bringer (some texts also say he judged the dead, but isn't that St. Peter's gig?) He is also invoked against sea storms, so now I've all kinds of water travel charms guarding me. I think we'll get along just fine.

JKR's official site is kind of cool, though just as Flash-dependant as *NSYNC.com, yet the latter resolutely refuses to load on this computer. Anyway, she studied French and spent a year in Paris! Which explains, among other things, Nicolas Flamel (this will all be revealed in the trip journal, as my tour of Europe was heavy on keeping an eye out for Harry Potter references.) And while I'm not big on nicknames and the like, her adamant aversion to the use of "Voldie," one I've always been fond of, is amusing. Also, she namedropped Laura Freeman, so I went to check out her fanart and dude. Dude! Check out Remus! Mmm, sexy werewolfman.

Okay, why is no one else in this house losing their shit over the fact that absolutely nothing happens when I turn the key in my car's ignition? Nothing on the dash lights up, there is no sound, nothing. *whimper*

Comments

[silveryscrape.livejournal.com]

Pardon me being a buttin-ski, but most likely your battery cable is loose. <------- has driven many beaters

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

My brother actually just went outside and, from the sounds I heard, assumably jumped it, and claims it's just fine now. Shall see when I run errands tomorrow, but for now, I'm very releavedly taking his word for it.

...beaters?

[silveryscrape.livejournal.com]

You know, I can't for the life of me remember where "beaters" came from. It's slang for "beat up car," but it seemed to me there was actually more to the term, like another word on the front that I shortened for some reason. But all I can think of is "wifebeaters" and I'm pretty sure that's not it. :)

[tallories.livejournal.com]

St. Michael the Archangel is often described in the Old Testament as joining with the other three archangels in binding up the wicked ones of earth and casting them into the fires of Hell, but the New Testament decribes his battle with the dragon in the Apocalypse of St. John and presents him almost as God's commander-in-chief, organizing the world's religions and with an extraordinarily powerful intervention. I believe the Church calendar actually has two feast days for him - one on May 8 that commemorates his appearance, and the one on Sept. 29, Michaelmas, for the dedication of his bascilia in Rome.

And that was probably more than you wanted to know. ;)

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

No, actually that was very illuminating - obviously, my research only revealed the middle and some of the end of that. Just very interesting that I chose the charm for no other reason other than liking it and the statue commemorating him at Place St. Michel in the Latin Quarter, but that he has so much in common with Libras (and yes, I know how inaccurate, etc. the Zodiac is).