Well, I'm off Monday morning for 5+ weeks out in the Wild Wild East(Asia-Pac). This trip I'll be spending most of my time in the Western world - HK & Taiwan, with some jumps into Shenzhen and other areas of southern China.
All I asked for this holiday season were items I could use while traveling, so I'm happy that I got what I need/wanted. Also bought a present for myself - I needed to research first hand - a new camera. I got a Sony Cybershot DSC-H3. I love my Pentax Optio S5i, but the shutter lag getting painful to deal with, I prefer candid/life shots rather then staged. I did a fair amount of research, I wanted small easy to travel with a quick shutter. Everyone was recommending the Canon SD750,SD850,SD870 but I found it too slow. Plus now I have 10x Zeiss zoom rather then 3-4x with the smaller point & shoot models. The camera is a little bigger the my old 35mm P&S models, but I get 8MP for a decent price, $249 @ best buy. So I plan to be taking lots of photos over the next month or so.
Also got lots of CDs that I wanted, just need to pickup 1 more - the Guillemots. I buy CDs because I want to use the music in different formats, ipod, SD card, HD, etc. And with all the DRM crap that's going on, I won't download if I can't use it in different formats.
So Today, I'm just cleaning my desk/paperwork, double checking I have all the stuff I may want/need for the next few weeks. Then it's home to pack - going light again, this time packing for 10days, just do lots of laundry. Much easier then over packing.
I never get any sleep the day before I leave, especially since all the flights are at 7/8am, and having to be there 2hours in advance, plus travel time - has me leaving @ 4am. But the good news is I upgraded, and have upper/first class all the way over. I didn't expect many people to be on the flight, the first flight is rather empty, but the 2nd is full - which is odd, since it is new years after all.
