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Cool Trucks

It was a good weekend and I took this cool picture of a tonka grader that Eric gave to our oldest from his personal collection.

A Nighttime Visitor

We had a visitor last night. The chunky boy was in there for over 10min, I sped that part up because it makes a boring video.

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A new toy

It's my Canon RF100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM. It's my longest lens and the most money that I have ever spent on a lens.

My best lens is still my EF 70-200 f4, and I probably could have added an RF 2x teleconverter and had a sharper lens kit at …

Birds at the Park

Not the ideal conditions for this lens, but it was a great day to make a snack and to Point Pleasant park.

There are a few that I liked, and most of them are at 400mm.

It's definitely not the sharpest lens, and the autofocus motors had a hard time …

VIM is cool

But VS Code is practical.

I am running Debian on my Framework laptop for 6 months, it's a trip. So many "normal" things are just a haul. Maybe if I went with Ubuntu I would have a "better" time, I already tried Linux Mint. As it is, I would like …

Spring is gone

I will be closing the curtains and pretending that it hasn't snowed yet. So I did a Quordle, and I think I figured out the formatting, so I will post some more.

BTW, I still share my wordles on twitter too, but hey, why not. I actualy like that it …

Spring is here

I know it snowed a couple days ago, and PEI got 20cm last night, but the flowers are popping out, so that means to me that Spring is here and you can't tell me different.

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