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I used digital for Las Vegas, but that was mostly because I didn't know what to really expect going in. I agree, though, for sure; I use a two-gigabyte 133x SD card that stores about 1.2K shots on my digital SLR (in JPG mode) and flies during uploads.

I am using film for San Juan, though, which I am leaving for in about half an hour. I am very tired. My computer got infected with a nasty worm right before I left for Vegas, so I am trying to fix the problems now before I go.

I have personally life-changing news for you guys, but I will tell you in a couple of days when it's hopefully confirmed.

Okay, it's official: I am now a fiancé. I took Jessica up to the top of the Empire State Building after work yesterday, in order to finally finish up our first date.

Three and a half years ago, when I didn't know anything about dating in New York, all of my ideas on what to do were mostly touristy, so I thought it'd be a neat idea to see the top of the ESB with Jess. A freak blizzard hit the city in the middle of March that year, so we never got to do it until yesterday.

Eighty-six stories above the city, facing towards the southern tip of Manhattan where we both grew up in the Lower East Side, I showed her the Tiffany's ring I had been hiding from her for the last week and a half and proposed to her and she said, Yes! I then took her to this nice dinner at Tabla, before finishing up the night at this "cute," French-ish place called the Hotel Elysee.

Yeah, it definitely is. I've noticed (quite recently, actually) that despite what we both consider to be our progressive values, Jess and I are very old-fashioned in the way we've conducted every aspect of the relationship.

I didn't kneel, though. She told me that she'd say no if I knelt and caught all the attention of all the tourists. I was actually kind of looking forward to being that random couple that shows up in everyone's vacation pics.

Sorry I've been so neglectful of the board. I have been surprisingly sick this year -- with colds, coughs, vertigo, etc. -- and my return from Japan was no exception.

Just after I got over the jet lag, I fell ill with a fever, and now I have this pretty awful cough. On top of that, I am probably prehypertensive now, which is annoying because it means that I'll probably have to start exercising.

Pfeh!