A lot of old DCCC people back from break went to DCCC today for morning service. It was cool seeing people like showei and anli back after such a long time. At noon, anna's sister lydia and steven's sister carolyn were baptized (hope I didn't spell those names incorrectly...) along with a chinese couple.

Congratulations to both of them.

In the evening, I watched a little more of "Santa Clause" with my brother, and then my family went out and visited some of the christmas decorations that won awards in our local newspaper.

After morning service, I helped my mom out by leading sunday school for kindergartners. There was only four boys there today. Throughout the class, some of them would say really funny things, and I wrote them down:

• My daddy is eighty four years old. My mom is the same number of age as my daddy.
  
• My little [baby] brother likes to be naked
  
• My daddy said on Christmas we can have ice cream for dinner
  
• Cheese can be yellow

After each brilliant insight, I would give them a smile, and say, "Okay Socrates. You can sit down now."

Just kidding.

Kids say the darnedest things.

Our family's older camera, a Sony DSC-F707, had been experiencing problems for the past while. Sometimes it would operate normally, but it would frequently show an error message saying "No MemoryStick", even though there was a perfectly fine memorystick in it.

Recently I decided to try and solve the problem, and after looking around for a while on the web, found a person that claimed to have fixed the exact same problem on his F707. He said it was a connection issue that involved the memorystick bay and some wires. I bookmarked the page and kind of forgot about it.

Today, I decided to take a risk and perform "open-heart" surgery on the camera. I followed the instructions given by the guy, took some tools, and opened up the camera. The operation went pretty smoothly, and pretty soon I had the camera opened up to the point where I could adjust the suspect wire.

I reassembled everything (which was harder), and suddenly the camera worked fine again. I haven't had the issue again since. Praise God that I didn't break the camera and that the issue is now resolved.

On my about page, I've changed the camera from being a crossed out one to being an active one. I think I might bring the camera to berkeley.