My Besta Weekend

This was a good 6-hour project (longer if I include the trip to IKEA to get everything)...

What started as a simple cabinet:

 Started to grow as the panels were added

 The main advantage of this is that my TV is now "wall mounted", but I only had to drill 2 holes into the wall.

 The black glass top panel is one of my favorite parts.

 Cleaning everything up

 The inaugural movie was Ocean's Eleven

 All put together and looking beautiful.

Quick Test - Wide Angle

I got my quick and easy wide angle converter lens today ($10 on Amazon). It's supposed to be a .45x, giving my 14mm lens an effective focal length of 6.3mm (or a 12.6mm 35mm equivalent). It's definitely neat (it also has a macro adapter), and as you can see in photo below, it gives does widen the field of view for my lens very nicely. There's some blurring around the edges, and I'm sure it's not the greatest piece of glass ever, but it'll be fun to fool around with (and get some nice pictures of the apartment once I get my new TV stand).

No adapter

 With wide angle converter

Visiting Point Reyes Station

Christina and I were planning on hiking in Muir Woods yesterday, but because about half of San Francisco had the same idea, we ended up trekking over to Point Reyes instead. I was there about a year ago with Bunny, when we went to the Miwok village and also up to the lighthouse at the point. Christina and I didn't make it over to the lighthouse this time, but we did wander around the station for a couple of hours.

Less than a minute onto the trail over to the Kule Loklo (Bear Valley) village, I almost stepped on this little snake...

 Lizards were out in force among the shelters

Christina practicing her technique 

 And both of us practicing together