So Nans kinda rocks ass at work this last month, which means he's going to be getting something like 700€ on top of what he is usually paid. Which means we can relax a bit, put a bit to one side, and splash out with the rest. Nans wants an HD overhead projector so we can have a massive TV on the living room wall (and so he can play video games with it). And I want... a keyboard.
Not a keyboard to type on, though me being something of a geek it could be that kind. Actually I did see this glow-in-the-dark computer keyboard and was almost tempted to buy it (Nans likes the dark). No, I want a musical keyboard. And not just any musical keyboard (otherwise I'd dig out the one I got for my 13th birthday out of my parents' garage and get it a French adapter plug and pray it worked). I want one that makes me feel like I'm playing a real piano. I want heavy keys, touch sensitivity, and at least 76 notes if not 81 or 88 like I've seen on the net.
All this is pretty expensive, which is why we went to Affair's, a second hand shop on the outskirts of Grenoble that I'm pretty sure we got our (ancient) washing machine from. Note that our washing machine shakes so much when it's working that everything on it (contact lens solution, body lotion, aftershave...) moves around it or is thrown off into the dirty washing below. It would move 2 metres if we hadn't squeezed it in between the wall and the sink. But it was cheap, and it does wash the clothes.
Anyway, I quickly realized that even the most expensive (and longest) keyboard they sold didn't have heavy keys, and found the only two overhead projectors to be a) crap and b) extortionate. I was waiting for Nans to finish looking at the mice (not real mice, computer mice) when I spotted a bright blue digital camera for only 29€. I reread. Then I looked at the others on display : none under 69€. I called Nans over and asked him to help me find the catch. He said to look at the number of megapixels; the higher it was, he said, the better quality the image would be. This one had 12 mgp. I looked at the others, more expensive: 7, 8, 10, 12... The more mpgs, the more expensive they were - apart from the bright blue one. I didn't get it.
We called over a salesman. He said "there's no memory card with it." Ah, we thought. Only to later discover that the blessed thing has internal memory. I know nothing about cameras, apart from the basics of how to take pictures with them.
We got a memory card for 14€ more. The salesman behind the counter warned us that the memory card might not work on that camera, and said we could bring it back if we didn't damage the packaging too much.
On the way home, we stopped to test it out: the memory card works. There's an installation CD, a link USB cable and a TV link cable. I've seen better quality images (especially indoors), it doesn't handle movement well on photos, and you can't listen to the videos, on the camera itself, but it's practically new, and still a bargain.
So, I went out to look for a musical intrument, and came back with a digital camera. And Nans has a stomach bug, but he insisted on going out anyway. Funny day for me...
Not a keyboard to type on, though me being something of a geek it could be that kind. Actually I did see this glow-in-the-dark computer keyboard and was almost tempted to buy it (Nans likes the dark). No, I want a musical keyboard. And not just any musical keyboard (otherwise I'd dig out the one I got for my 13th birthday out of my parents' garage and get it a French adapter plug and pray it worked). I want one that makes me feel like I'm playing a real piano. I want heavy keys, touch sensitivity, and at least 76 notes if not 81 or 88 like I've seen on the net.
All this is pretty expensive, which is why we went to Affair's, a second hand shop on the outskirts of Grenoble that I'm pretty sure we got our (ancient) washing machine from. Note that our washing machine shakes so much when it's working that everything on it (contact lens solution, body lotion, aftershave...) moves around it or is thrown off into the dirty washing below. It would move 2 metres if we hadn't squeezed it in between the wall and the sink. But it was cheap, and it does wash the clothes.
Anyway, I quickly realized that even the most expensive (and longest) keyboard they sold didn't have heavy keys, and found the only two overhead projectors to be a) crap and b) extortionate. I was waiting for Nans to finish looking at the mice (not real mice, computer mice) when I spotted a bright blue digital camera for only 29€. I reread. Then I looked at the others on display : none under 69€. I called Nans over and asked him to help me find the catch. He said to look at the number of megapixels; the higher it was, he said, the better quality the image would be. This one had 12 mgp. I looked at the others, more expensive: 7, 8, 10, 12... The more mpgs, the more expensive they were - apart from the bright blue one. I didn't get it.
We called over a salesman. He said "there's no memory card with it." Ah, we thought. Only to later discover that the blessed thing has internal memory. I know nothing about cameras, apart from the basics of how to take pictures with them.
We got a memory card for 14€ more. The salesman behind the counter warned us that the memory card might not work on that camera, and said we could bring it back if we didn't damage the packaging too much.
On the way home, we stopped to test it out: the memory card works. There's an installation CD, a link USB cable and a TV link cable. I've seen better quality images (especially indoors), it doesn't handle movement well on photos, and you can't listen to the videos, on the camera itself, but it's practically new, and still a bargain.
So, I went out to look for a musical intrument, and came back with a digital camera. And Nans has a stomach bug, but he insisted on going out anyway. Funny day for me...
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