Time is Money

Time seems to run low.

Funds lower.

Yep, despite that time is money, I seem to have neither on hand.

Every dollar I earn is spoken for.  Every minute of the day, occupied.

Upon a time, I had cash in hand, a little bit of leisure time.  Now, I have so many writing and photography projects in my head, it seems impossible to squeeze them all into a single day.

And now that I’ve played with my friend’s Nikon, I want my own.  I’ve re-doubled my savings this week, and now have $1.36 of the roughly $1,200 I need to start.  And I mean start: I just looked through their catalog of lens, found one I liked, and then learned the price: an 80-400 lens (long telephoto) for only about $6,000.  Fortunately, that’s not one of the first lenses I’ll need.

My 40th birthday is this year.  What are the chances of everyone I know sending me at least $4 for my birthday?  That won’t get me the $6,000 lens, but it ought to get me the camera and the first lens I want (a mere $700 for that).