Good Monday Morning folks.

It is a gorgeous day out there. The sun just came up and it is clear skies and unseasonable cool. 45 degrees with a high of 68. San Diego type weather.

Of course I will spend most of the day in a metal building with no windows at all. Not one. The front door is open and the glass storm door does let me look out if I walk up front to the front office and look out at the parking lot and other industrial buildings in the area. Across the street just west of us is a valve company that is competition for the company Richard works for. I can't see any of that from my desk.

Wonder if that valve company is suffering like we are. Our sales are down 35% due to the lower gas prices. No raises or bonuses until further notice. The word out in the shop is, you screw up, you are on the streets. Even though my brother says different.

I am sure they are struggling as well. From everything I read every oil & gas related company is floundering.

I remember back in the late 80s a valve company that was over on 39th & Portland area called us and wanted some pictures of one of their valves. I told them we would be happy to do that just bring the valve by and we will put it on our infinity table and photograph it on a all white background. They explained that would be difficult as the valve was large. So we loaded up the company Suburban with the 4x5 camera and portable whit background.

We were a bit shocked to see that valve. It was 8 feet tall and 4 feet wide. I could crawl through the valve if I had wanted to. We agreed shooting it in place was the best option. It was a royal pain to try to light the behemoth and have a even background tone. We ended up shooting it with the owner of the company standing next to it to give it a scale. Without him in the picture it looked like just a big valve not an friking huge valve.

I spent hours setting up the lights in that HOT HOT building. The 4x5 camera was backed up against the wall of the building to get it all in the photo and I spent even more time dropping out the background with a frisket. Now days a cell phone and Photoshop could do it in no time.

Hey.

Rainy here today.

Almost forgot masking out the background in product photos. Almost as much fun as doing paste boards for pages before printing. Macs sure made all that stuff a whole lot easier.

Brrrr, it's getting cold here early this year. :(

T'was the second day in a row I wore jeans. I think it only made it to 19C and yesterday we got to 21C.

Winter's coming :(

Well, the migration problems are growing by leaps and bounds.

Some brainiac setup our domain forrest as kimray.org. Yet our email is kimray.com. In the move to Office 365 for our email the network Active Directory guy changed everyones UPN or login id from user@kimray.org to user@kimray.com. When I asked about dong this years ago I was told changing the login ID would screw all kinds of things that use active directory for user authentication.

Well...It's Happening!!!

Yea, computers changed that industry more than digital photography changed mine.

We bought a scanner in about 1990 that came with PhotoSyler. On my 6 MHz IBM AT with 2 MB or RAM and 32 MB hard drive running DOS 5.0 it took overnight to rotate a 8x10 scan at 300 PPI. We ordered another 2 MB of RAM and filled up the expansion board. That whopping 2 MB of RAM was over 800 bucks. I could rotate that same image in just a few hours after that. The computer had one monochrome amber text on black background for the menus and one color monitor that could display 256 colors at once! It used both Extended and Expanded RAM mapping.

Now days I rotate a one GIG tiff file in 2 or 3 seconds.

Remember making a trip to Dallas to an Heathkit store that sold Apple computers to buy 2-4meg sticks of ram for $700 each. And that was less than half price at the time.

My freakin phone is more powerful, faster and has more ram and storage than the computers back then.

morning all. Well the kids CD's should be in today. Now its time to set up a release party and get moving on shows. Right after the W#$% think gets over.

if anyone is interested.

Connor Lewis | Back to the Jukebox | CD Baby Music Store

Are they CD's or DAM's. CD's have audio file format, DAM's have mp3's. Too bad mp3.com got bought out my cnet. They really messed it up. It was a great place for new groups to put their music out there. Put up a couple of songs as mp3 and sell album DAM's.

Sorry, just not into the country genre.

I'll have physical CD's in hand later today. CD baby will have mp3 files and put it out to iTunes and Amazon as well as a host of others.

I sure hope that is not Conner on the cover of the CD.

I hope he has a gold record on his hands. Maybe his dad can retire and live off of his sons earnings. :cool:

I live in the land of Country Music and I avoid C&W music with a full effort. Not my type of music. C&W is just a little better than Disney music or RAP in my opinion.

nope not him on the cover.

think old school country not Nashville pop.

Old School Country for me would be Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn and Roy Clark. But what do I know about C&W, not very much. Almost as much as I know about 1930 Jazz or Bagpipe Scottish folks songs.

you are close.

Country makes my teeth itch as well but hey it is the kid.

Hey at least it is not RAP!

Cool! I respect the classics although my tastes lean to hard rock/metal.

I really dug what Dwight Yoakam did on his early records.

Being tech savvy is not my thing so I'll ask: Can I post a link to his page on my FB page? My niece and friends her age(mid 20's) are all about country music. If they like the songs they will pass it on.

Wayne here is something for you. His prev band.

Fistful of Dollars | Faceless Killer | CD Baby Music Store


Yes you can post a link, that would be great.