If it aint broke...

I shot the first high school football scrimmage of the year this afternoon... and got soaked. But my camera stayed dry. It never fails, if I get totally decked out in all my rain gear, nothing happens. But when I go half-assed, it pours. I got the camera and lens protected with a new "camera rain coat" I got a few months ago, and I put my rain coat on. But I decided against the rain pants. And you guessed it, my pants got soaked.

No big deal, I always tell people that I'll dry off, but it's harder for 10 grand worth of camera equipment to dry off. So in the rain, camera gear comes first.

I guess the rain was what's leftover from Tropical Storm Erin.

Today also makes three days in a row I've been running. I went out and got one of those arm band things that holds an iPod. Now I can listen to music instead of myself breathing hard. It really helps me run because it takes my mind off how tired and out of shape I am. I listen to quite the mix too... everything from The Cranberries to 50-Cent to Guns-n-Roses to Insane Clown Posse to the KSU Fight Song.

anyway, here's a shot I took today at the scrimmage. Hey, it worked, and when you're nine, you don't really care that your umbrella looks like this.