After a couple of weeks of comparison shopping, I bought myself a digital camera. No one had any kind of deal going. Each store had the same selection of models at the same price down to the penny. Talk about annoying. What good does it do to comparison shop if you can't find a deal?

But I found a little bit of a deal. I ended up buying a little more of a digicam than I really needed because one store had an open box special on a camera that was beyond my range normally. The special dropped it down to about $30 above my limit and I gritted my teeth and bought it.

Probably the nicest feature of the camera is that it uses Compact Flash memory cards, just like my TRGpro PDA. Which, by the way, arrived a little over a week ago. I've already changed the batteries in that sucker once. Of course, the "Runtime" program that I installed showed that I had run it for 26 hours between Sunday and Thursday. I sort of had new toy syndrome.

Of course, I now get to play around with moving stuff back and forth to the Compact Flash card. That should eat my batteries some, too. I hope that I will eventually tail off on the high usage and my batteries will start lasting something more like the advertisements, as I start using more like the mythical "typical" user.