Time continues to fly!

I did not realize that the whole month of September has gone by and I did not post anything! Not to say that there was much to post.

Let's see - did a little travelling to visit old friends, bought some more cheap camera lenses, converted a couple to Canon mount and slowly working my way to having all converted. There are 4 left to do. Two of the latest and greatest acquisitions were a Sigma APO 400mm F5.6 (the easiest conversion I have done to date) and a Minolta Rokkor 58mm F1.4 (waiting on a special adapter that will tell the camera it's a f1.4 lens attached). I just love taking old manual focus lenses and making them work with new cameras. The feel of the old lenses - a nice weight from being mainly metal as compared to the mostly plastic ones now being made. I get the satisfaction of converting something that would have been scrapped and extending its life. I know that most of the lenses will be useable long after I have left this realm. No electronics to wear out!

The Cayman Islands is once again going through a period of crime. We have had a bank robbery and some small store robberies. There have been a couple murders - one apparently related to drugs and the other to gangs. For a small island, these incidents are becoming all too common and the police have recently said that they will not be releasing any details of crimes as they happen. You have to wait for "normal" working hours to find out what is happening unless they determine it is significant! Sounds like they are becoming too complacent about what is going on.
I, for one, would like to know if there is a nutcase running around my neighbourhood!

The weather has been rainy over the past 10 days as one depression after another comes into the region. We have had about 10" of rain in the past 2 weeks! But thankfully, no hurricanes (as yet)!
Once the rains are gone, things will begin to cool down (it is already happening) and we once more get to pleasant weather and sunny skies.

There is a continued exit of expats as work permits are not renewed or companies experience slowdowns. The only blessing to these islands is that almost all of the people leave and hence do not become a burden on the system. On the other hand, it is expertice that is lost! On Oct 10, there will be a census to determine who is here and what they do!

These days, to still have a job, good health, food and shelter are all things one can truly be thankful for! It does not take much of an internet search to find out how difficult things are for some people in the US and EU. But one has to prepare for potential bad times during the good!