Let’s see, I have a few days to catch up on here.

“*Gasp* can it be, a photo??”

Yup I went bowling on the Sunday in a bid to meet more deaf people locally, my father took me there and drove off to do some work presumably. I was fairly early but when I went in I spotted a couple of guys signing away, a younger jolly looking lad and an older feller in donning a cap over his white hair and weather tanned skin. As before I went up to them and attempted to introduce myself. I was able to finger-spell my name out to them and tell them that I had been invited by the deaf people I had met already. They were familiar with the names I gave them and said that I would be able to fill in for a team member who would not show up. All good and well so far!
Shortly after that people started turning up, and gradually the place seemed to be teeming with people signing to each other whilst putting on their bowling shoes and limbering up. Must have been 25 or so of us suddenly taking up half the bowling lanes in the place!

I spotted Kelly from the other night and went over to say ‘Hi’. She recognised me straight away and said it was good to see me there. She then introduced me to the chap in charge of the whole bowling bonanza called Ken who then assigned me to 3-person team.
I hadn’t been bowling in years so suffice to say I was more than rusty and ready to embarrass myself.

Embarrass myself I did on a few occasions but I also get in a few nice full strikes in there too! My team were pretty patient and were kind enough to give me plenty of bowling tips however it seemed that the more I thought about my technique, the worse I did! Oh well.. 😉

After 2 hours we had managed to play 3 games, it was enjoyable but I hadn’t been able to talk to people and socialise as much as I was hoping to, if I had to attribute that to any reason I would say it was because everyone was pretty competitive about their game and that didn’t leave a lot of room for getting to know people better and learning more ASL from them. Oh well, it was still a good experience on the whole. Oh yea my father sure took his time to pick me up, I was the last to leave! Mmmmm a car to call my own.. *daydreams*.

Thus onto Monday where I, yes indeed, I got my hands on not just any camera but quite possibly the worst piece of photographic technology I’ve ever used, but none the less, images! Read on!
Yes, you read right! I got my mitts on a digital camera to have a play with, however the pictures it takes are in a whole class of their own which are so ‘bad’ that the results are actually quite interesting. So how did I come by this camera? Well we stopped by a friend of my fathers and since I am currently looking to buy a camera for this blog he actually said I could play around with this camera he got for $30, second hand the other day. This was indeed a very generous act on his behalf however when it became apparent how cheap this camera actually was, the whole thing became somewhat of a novelty.

I have a couple shots I can attempt to upload here now however the thing lasted about 5 shots before devouring the cheap no-name brand batteries which were apparently fresh. So it remains to be seen if I will get any use out of it in the end. But I can tell you’re all gagging for something so lo and behold let me introduce….

“Yours Truely”; Myles de Bastion (forgetting to smile).

Hmm well yes this was the first picture I took as a test, unfortunately the other pictures where I am smiling weren’t in focus, altough I don’t think you could call this one in focus either. That was also taken just before I collapsed into bed for an emergancy nap. Every day does take it out of me a little energy wise!

Also seeing as they’ve had a fair bit of mention already; my father and his cooking:

“Fathers Stir Fry”.

[EDIT] Ahha, worked out how to turn pictures into thumbnails (thanks Chris!). Feel free to see the bigger versions of pictures by clicking on them.
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