Ungrateful Giftee & other things I did yesterday

In order to appease my lovely wife and child, we opened one present each of the ones mailed in from my parents. I didn't really want to, but since we were going to be out of town during XMas, and I was facing a revolt, I decided to let them win. I opened Chris' present, and with much glee, discovered that he(or my parents) had included a gift reciept for the book from Barnes and Noble. I wasn't that interested in the cabinet of Abraham Lincoln, so I exchanged it for The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, and Ringworld by Larry Niven. Hopefully I can get around to reading them.

I also stopped by Circuit Shitty, since it was next door to check out digital camera's. They had the Canon Rebel XT that I've been lusting after, but they felt that a customer doesn't really need to see how the hands on demo actually worked, so they left the battery out, and didn't have it plugged in. This was also the same for the Panasonic Lumix FZ5 that they had on display.

I did manage to find a lithium battery for my old Canon EOS 620, which I haven't used for probably around 10 years. I'm particularly interested in what is on the half used roll that is inside.