drinking, sand and a digital camera

3 things that should never go together. but unfortionately they did. and now my camera has sand all up in it. and when you slide the lens open you can hear and feel the grains. ugh. and now its a bitch to upload pictures. you have to sweet talk it and try 50 times before it does it. and then you have to be quick because the camera loses connection to the computer so then even if you see the thumbnails of your pics it still wont do it if the connection is lost. needless to say, i had a very trying morning trying to get them on my jump drive. but i did get them on. so thank god for small miracles.