The good news: I made it to the Reno Rodeo; the bad news: I forgot to put a battery in my camera. Add to this that I worked hard to smuggle it into the rodeo grounds.
The Reno Rodeo Association has concluded that if you have a camera with a detachable lens, then you’re a professional photographer. This cracks me up, as most cellphones have a built in camera that take far better pictures than most SLR (single lens reflex) cameras manufactured before 2015.
But then the powers that be are always smarter than the rest of us…
Anyway, I did have a device on me, a hand-me-down cellphone that isn’t used as a cellphone, but strictly for taking videos and pictures. I’m working on stitching 40 separate videos together into a short film.
A nice woman gave me a souvenir program, for free. The biggest bummer is that I’m 160-plus on the list for a commemorative belt buckle, while knowing that by day two, they’d already sold all 7,000 buckles produced.
All-in-all, it was fun, save for the firework display that I wasn’t privy too and was less than 50 feet from when touched off. I painted my britches, both coming and going.
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