Camera Obscura

Here's another recurring theme in my life: give me something simple and I will screw it up - give me something arcane and I can do it. I can take a good photo using full manual features of my DSLR, but give me a point and shoot camera and I'm stuck. It's the easy instructions in life that trip me up (just press the button) - yet I just can't help the impending flurry of questions (how hard to press it? when to press it? what's the delay between the button press and actual shutter closing? isn't there a better way to do this?). Sometimes I just need to have a beer and press the button, nothing more. Happy Independence Day!