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PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:06 pm    Post subject: Is this good luck or what? Reply with quote

A few days before Christmas I was in a store. A guy came in and from his appearance he was very likely homeless.

He had many layers of clothes that were clearly visible topped off with a fleecy poncho (prob a fleece throw with a hole cut in it) and knit hat with built-in ear muffs and chin strap.

Not to make fun of his condition it just looked like a Kodak moment to me. So I took his pic with my phone and got the message: "Card not installed, saving to phone."

I thought "Huh? wtf? There's suppose to be a 2 gig chip for this."

So I took a few more pix and checked the phone. Sure enough, no chip.

My heart sank. Have I lost nearly 200 pix and a dozen vids? I was almost in a trance.

When I got home I did a police search. No chip. I began to whimper.
This was the 22nd of December.

Today, 7January, I came by the house on my way back to work (still a temporary gig but it's been extended to the middle of Jan possibly the end of Jan.)

Jasper was crying for kibbles as he always does so I took him a handfull out to his plate.

On the way back to my car what should I see but a tiny glint of gold shimmering in the sunlight. I looked and lo and behold it was my chip.

It had been laying there for **at least** two weeks had to be longer than that - through quite a few fairly heavy rainy days and I found it on the day we are due to receive a small amount of snow.

Maybe an inch if that much but more than enough to bury an SD micro chip.

AND IT WORKS. Cool Cool Cool Cool I have me pix, me music and everything back.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

*cheers* yay - that's bloody good luck!

Did the homeless guy mind you taking his pic?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I want to see this homeless guy pic



I've washed and then tumble dried my usb memory sticks on a regular occurrence, they all still work.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

He didn't know. They never know. The entire remainder of the room may know and witness my shenanigans but the subject is always oblivious.

I'll post it later tonight. I'm getting ready to go out for pizza.
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