Category: The DayBook

Something new today. I took three pictures today. And here they all. All within 3 blocks of home. Now, I think I’ll delete all of them. Well, maybe not the chicken.

Enjoy Every Sandwich: Grilled ham, cheese and tomato.

Mr C has finished his first week of this round of radiation. He looks the same to me. I guess the same is better than worse.

 

It is that time of year again. When I try to figure out how to digitize all my photos and albums. I do not want to move them all to the old ladies home. And, I am realistic enough to know that when I am dead nobody will want the photos.

Last summer, when I was doing this same thing – a friend reminded me that perfection is the enemy of progress or some such thing. I am toying with the idea of photographing my photographs. The trouble with flat bed scanning is DUST. I considered renting a professional Kodak photo scanner. And, just sending all the photos to one of those scan all your stuff outfits. Not one in India – one somewhere in the US. I will get a copy stand if I do the photo option.

Enjoy Every Sandwich – Today’s “sandwich” was a really nice salad of yellow fin tuna, green beans, tomato, hard boiled eggs and shaved parmesan cheese. With a roll. Sort of a tuna salad sandwich!

This photo was photographed. At ISO 1600. Proper settings and light would make for better results.

The password update has begun. 1Password was selected, because the day after I started thinking about converting password managers as well as changing all my passwords, 1Password went on sale. I figured that was a sign that 1Password was the one to use.

I am starting to think positively about moving to an old folks asylum in the spring of 2016. If it is really going to happen, I’ll need to have another massive downsizing. But, that is OK. I am going to make another scouting mission to the potential asylum on Tuesday afternoon. One quarter of the residents are over 90. At that rate, I could live there 20 years. So, I’d better like it. I must think of it is my home and not a penal colony for old women!

On a more serious note… The world is not a happy place at this instant. We need more flying pigs and fewer flying projectiles.

Enjoy every sandwich: Chicken and avocado quesadilla sounds good.

I accidentally ended up at the Arlington County Fair this afternoon. With my wonderful new camera and the macro lens. Not the right lens for a fair. But, you shoot with what you got.

Notice we have Italian, Polish, Cajun, French, and Greek greasy fried foods covered. Is this a great country or what?

And what would a country fair be without pigs?

There was also entertainment, rides, prize tomatoes… And someone won a price for growing a single stalk of corn (complete with ears) in an attractive flower pot. (No photo – wrong lens) It was utterly charming and obviously a labor of obsessive love. Even getting it to the fair must have been a challenge.

Enjoy every sandwich: Bacon, cheese and tomato. Take that piggies.

More history. Thanks Dave – Harvard’s Mark I was “born” 70 years ago today. Just a little younger than me. Thank you Howard Aiken and you too Grace Hopper. And thanks to Harvard for showing off the leftover parts of the Mark I so elegantly.

Check out the little YouTube video. The Harvard Mark I

Votes have come in for 1password, lastpass and keeping keepass(x). The only problem with Keepass(X) is its IOS option is pretty much of a kludge.

Enjoy Every Sandwich – chicken quesadillas.

We bombed Hiroshima 69 years ago today. No moral judgement. Just history.

Decided that it is time to change all of my passwords. A ***MASSIVE*** undertaking. I have used Keypass and KeypassX for years. Anyone care to recommend something “better” – before I start. Keypass isn’t totally user friendly. But, it is free and cross platform. Before that I used RoboForm. I don’t think I’ll move away from Keypass. But, I am open to suggestions.

Enjoy every sandwich – how about grilled cheese, bacon and tomato?

Today was the first day of Mr C’s radiation. It took 3 technicians, 2 physicists, and 1 doctor to get Carlton and the machine lined up. Oh, and one concerned wife wondering if they knew what the F they were all doing. We’ll see.

The “bad guys” in Afghanistan managed to shoot one of our generals and killed him. A few generals and admirals have died as a result of hostile actions before. Darn few, I might add. You might have to go all the way back to the American Civil War before you find one that died as a result of an enemy gunshot. Time to declare victory and leave, boys and girls.

Enjoy Every Sandwich: Turkey and Swiss. With tomatoes. Lots of tomatoes. We are in the peak of tomato season.

Playing around with the Olympus. And, the speedy shutter speed. While I was making my FitBit happy, I took the camera around to the local water features…

And then I went looking for flying critters.

Didn’t get any good flying shots. But, another butterfly to add to this year’s butterfly collection.

Mr C starts radiation again tomorrow morning. I am not so sure about the advisability of this round.

Enjoy Every Sandwich: Grilled ham and cheese with tomato. I guess they are called panini these days.

Just say no to the FitBit – today. I’ll get back with the program tomorrow. I have to. Because I got two fine new pair of jeans. Jeans that fit like a gloves. No room for expansion. The new jeans and they were new, came from the Goodwill. Our Goodwill gets shopworn, but new merchandise from The Gap, Ann Taylor and Banana Republic on a regular basis.

Enjoy Every Sandwich: Chicken and Cheese Quesadilla.

I would say that I was a couch potato this afternoon. But, we don’t have a couch. I lounged on the shaded balcony.

Carlton who is “fine”, decided to register his car for another two years.

Enjoy Every Sandwich: I have an abundance of bread products. And an underwhelming amount of stuff to put with the bread. So, we’ll have fried egg sandwiches for dinner. With tomatoes.

Knew it was going to be an interesting day when I walked into the office and found that our system wouldn’t load. Like every good hack, I immediately started with “well, it was fine when I left yesterday”, “I didn’t make any changes that would cause it to not load”, “the trouble is at the distant end”… fired off some emails, made a phone call… drank coffee, ate leftover cake… AND, someone somewhererestarted a server or two and everything was good.

It was drippy at walk time today – so no new photos. My new camera is “weatherproof”, but my old lenses aren’t.

Mr C seems to have survived his encounter with the parking lot gate. He is “fine”.

Enjoy every sandwich: Chicken quesadilla.

I headed out with my cheap-ass old macro lens – planning on sneaking up on a bee or butterfly… but people are more interesting. Nevermind that I was using my macro lens.

Carlton did an extra shift volunteering at hospital this afternoon. When he was walking back from the bus stop, he managed to get hit by a parking lot gate. Fortunately it whacked his shoulder and missed his head. No, he can not sue anyone – since technically – he was trespassing by taking a short cut thru the parking lot.

Enjoy Every Sandwich: I had cheese and tomato for lunch and will be serving turkey and cheese for dinner.