Sorry, I’ve been really bad about posting anything substancial about my life recently. Bad me. I can’t believe how quickly these last six months or so have flown by.

I’m going to the Rose Bowl! Things are falling in line — airline tickets, bowl tickets, housing, etc. It will be an unexpected expensive trip, but I’ve got credit and I’m not passing up the opportunity. I’m also loading up on the 100% juice and vitamin C so I can stay healthy this time. (I’m not missing 2 out of the last three bowl games.) I’ll wear a mask all through the Christmas season if I have to.

Anyway, the point of this post is the realization that I’d like to record this trip and my cameraphone is not the best camera. I know digital cameras are getting cheap now — and I don’t need the best on the market — but if I can get a sub $200 camera, it would probably be worth it. Any recommendations? My last camera was an old Canon, which was okay but really slow (both in po/po time, time-between-shots, and shutter speed.) I’d prefer as fast a “film speed” as I can get in a digital, consider I’m likely to take action shots and not be in the best light — or do people not even worrry about that anymore? Have digital cameras just gotten good enough? Size is important in that it must be pocketable (I don’t need a 10x optical, although I might really like one,) but it doesn’t have to be the slimmest camera available.

What P&S should I be looking at?