Hulk smash!

I consider myself a "finesse" guy. I don't fix things with a hammer, I don't over torque bolts, I don't walk into things, I don't slam the car door. I'm about technique.

But yet somehow in my rowdy way there are certain things I seemingly can destroy at will. At one time it was clothes. Always needing a patch, fixing a zipper, belt loop torn off, something would happen to the garment.

Then I had about a 6 year run of it being watches. No matter if it was a $300 Bulova stainless steel, armored up extreme sports plastic Freestyle, or the simplest Timex I destroyed at least one watch a year. Broken cases, buttons, screens, glass, crystals, bands. If it was a part on a watch that could be cracked or torn off it happened.

I wonder what would have happened if I really did get the Rolex I wanted for college graduation at the time...

Now for the past 3 1/2 years it has been digital point and shoot cameras. In that time frame I have had 5 of them and not a single one still functions. They have all fallen prey to too much hard use. Strapped to motorcycles, mountain bikes, guns. Fallen on the dirt, the grass, the pavement and sand. Oh and snow too. From zero miles per hour to 40. I've held them in my hand taking pics and video at 10F snowboarding to flying around in a helo in Iraq at 115F.

Each one has been some $200 Sony or Cannon. They were good cameras. For the 8 to 9 months they functioned. And now with the holidays coming up and more travel again in the coming year what am I to do? I'm sick of using my cell phone as a camera but I don't want to buy another camera I'm just going to destroy in 5 months....

What to do, what to do......???