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you do, or you don't

I never completed my last blog following the State Funeral of the late Sir Clement Arrindell. Everything proceeded as expected and my camera got "attacked" twice. I believe I made comments elsewhere, maybe in captions of photos in the Facebook album. I am not trying to figure out how five [5] new and charged Camera batteries could all get discharged in shooting under 100 photos in my Canon EOS DSLR camera, when one charged battery usually shoot a few hundred photos. Anyway I had a secret battery [not stored with the working set] for deep emergency and that came to the rescue. In the hour break between Government House and the State Funeral Service at Wesley Methodist Church, all five batteries were recharged. I am not surprised that after charging only one battery was used to cover the rest of the Funeral, and taking more photos than at Government House. Some things are just unexplainable, and I am not taking time off my daily routine to explore these "supernatural"...

... same time, different day

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Today is one of those days. This blog and post may take me two, maybe three days. I will write and stop and restart, and continue later, and I don't have to explain to you, but I am just decent enough to inform you early. The news today is not so good. I do not chase it down, but whenever I do hear it, I expect it to be uplifting, but as one associate informed me, that good news does not sell papers or anything else, so we are stuck with bad news so that people can get paid and drive big limo. Today it is a black day, and I am shooting black today. Men and women in black, with a little white. Today we have the nation's first Governor General lie in State. Today we also have the Chief of Police popular son lie somewhere else, but both are dead. They are both nationals that served their country, and made their contribution. I am not getting any politics, and my condolences go out to both families. The late Governor General is a blood relative of mine, that is family, and I coul...