Opinion : I've got my eye on you

This last year has found me googling, ordering, getting frustrated with and then figuring out new equipment.  I opened eBay again the other night in search of another camera after I consulted my schedule for the upcoming weeks.

There is only one of me and there is no way that I can be everywhere that, I need to be, should be but just can't be. 

Last night, as I looked at my list of places to be the total, came to 6 different locations. I was able to knock three off the list, but felt bad that I couldn't cover the other three. So the crazy part of me thought, about last year at about this same time.

I had a camera running at the city council, and one at Tilford and I needed to be at a sports event. I set the camera up at Tilford, took a camera to the council meeting, left for the sporting event, covered that, then picked up the camera at Tilford, ran to well, hobbled into the chiropractor and finished at the council meeting.

There are a lot of logistics to figure out to do that. First, time, then location, and I found with electronics I could be ALMOST everywhere at once. 

After finally finding the perfect camera, the next quest is finding it cheap, because, well, when these babies are new, they are more than I'd ever pay. 

So in walks eBay. The form of online garage sale/Goodwill shopping/estate sale.

Snagging two cameras for less than the price of one, you're back in business. 

Just when things are sailing along so smoothly and you think you have omnipresence figured out as good as humanly possible then the phone says, "Hey lady, I can only hold so much!"

So then you find yourself in a meeting fighting with your camera, your phone, and hoping your computer continues to operate. 

It does, and you give up. 

You fire off emails to the company and ask, "What's the deal with my video camera?" I just know the response will include unplug it, unplug EVERYTHING. So I did before sending off the email informing them that I already did the high tech stuff like unplugging the device. 

The live streaming of government meetings for some reason has become a hot item online. I have no idea why, but I'm glad you are all enjoying watching via the Facebook page. 

So while sitting in the Supervisor meeting I get an email that says, "Push the button on the bottom of the camera for 3-4 seconds. " Looking at the camera I see it has a place for your ballpoint pen...or not. I need something smaller than that. Fortunately, the high tech gadget that got me back online and live streaming was...a paper clip. 

I KNEW it would be something "complicated" like that. 

Snitching a paper clip from the stack of bids that were waiting to be presented to the supervisors I unbent the clip, pushed the button and returned the paper clip to the stack of paper. 

It reminds me of when I first started working in an office.  We had a paper jam. The tech person on the phone said, "Take some bamboo tweezers and pull the paper out." This was back in the '90s,  before bamboo was a thing. 

So I suppose, along with my bamboo tweezers, in case of a paper jam, I should now start carrying a paper clip so that I can shoot video. 

So anyway, my apologies for streaming this week's supervisors meeting from the halfway point in the meeting, I was searching for a paper clip...