I got to digging through my little book of maintenance for my El Camino. It was due a transmission fluid change and new filter. That is a pain to get done at home with a scissor lift and no way to really clean the pan. I just take it to the shop that built it. It is a total family affair there. The dad started the shop and now his son works there. His wife was the front counter and office help, and now the daughter helps in the office. The kids have brought the shop into the 21st century with computers and QuickBooks.

It was rather surreal to be chatting with the wife and daughter about my 2004R transmission. Most women just get a glazed look in their eyes when words Turbo 350 or 2004R are used. They even asked what my rear end ratio is. Most women never say "rear end" to a man they don't know. ;)

The ladies were both pleasant, feminine and in dresses, and the men were the mechanics. But I bet the dinner conversation has been about transmissions quite often.

I just waited for it to get done.

The coolest part, it is almost certain my dad and the mom's dad worked together in Korea in 1967. My dad and her dad were both Air Force pilots and stationed in South Korea in 1967. I wish dad were alive to ask him about it.

4 of us guys that were in the local Apple computer club back in 1980s are getting together for dinner tomorrow night. Going to be fun remembering the good old days of computers.

Good Morning!

Looks like it is panning out to be a beautiful post humpday day here in OKC.

morning. it is supposed to hit 80 here today. should be a nice day.

Golly, I guess I need to act fast, I just got an email that said my email account was about to expire and I had to use their link to update my information immediately or my email shuts down today. Dang it. I will get right on that, but first I need to reply to a Nigerian prince that has a several million dollars he needs to share with me.

yeah get right on that. make sure you keep them tied up for a bit.

Gosh, my records don't show you guys due until July. And I am such a prompt biller it might be a year or two before I remember to bill you guys.

I have had my Hotmail address forever. Its my go to for all non work related stuff.

Started scanning mom and dads photos last night. Only got 51 done going to take a really long time.

Is this weird?

Have discovered that I like Oreo thins after they have set out and gotten soft. The same with Keebler Ginger Snaps, taking the snap right out of them.

I put them on a plate with a small glass of water and put a cake cover over them. They soak up the moisture and get soft within a day.

Oh yeah, and Graham Crackers too.

Am I the only wierdo?

My brothers wife's family (her Dad) had 100's of 35mm slides.
Scanned them all for them and put them on a web site running Piwigo.
Took me a couple of weeks of doing nothing but scanning in and editing the photos.

There is a plug-in for photoshop, $80, from Kodak. It does a fantastic job of putting color back into faded out slides. Some were too bad, but most it helped tremendously. You just tell it whether the original was a slide, negative, or print.

Problem is that Kodak plug-in is 32 bit and the mac won't run 32 bit on the next update. I don't see any evidence that Kodak is going to update the plug-in. Already have to set photoshop to run 32 bit to use the plug in, then switch it back to 64.

David, when I inherited a HUGE pile of old family photos I spent a long time scanning. It got me into genealogy. I ended up getting Ancestry.com desktop, and then uploaded the tree to the internet. I have found distant cousins that loved to see photos of their great grandparents and cousins.

They supplied me with photos I had never seen. One distant cousin was just thrilled to see a photo of their great grandfather's grave site and know where he was, right here in OKC in the same cemetery as my parents.

It gets very addictive. The best part is I have an app on my phone that I can access the site and look up a photo in my family tree, or the birthday, date of marriage, or death of any of the relatives at any time.

Had my Gmail since they started. Yahoo too. But never got hotmail.

Had AOL for a long time, but it was basically to be able to support my brother and all the traveling he did. It was easiest to get him on-line with AOL calling their local dial-up for wherever he was.

Now all our traveling users just use wi-fi. Their hotel or the companies they visit, or worst case an internet cafe. Been trying to get these guys on MFA, but IT boss keeps saying no (because we don't have a written polity?!?), and their passwords keep getting hacked.

Way back my nephew but our family history in a program to help organize etc. It was a program offered free from the Church of Latter Day Saints. It put all our family stuff in their database. That populated all the programs like ancestry.

My Mom had done a LOT of work putting our family stuff together. Everywhere we went for reunions etc she talked to everyone and contacts people they knew and got a lot of information. She had a brief case she kept it all organized in. After Mom passed a sister-in-law took that a about half the family photo albums without me knowing. When I asked about them she said she didn't have anything. Then one day she broght the photo albums back. She had removed the pictures she wanted. Pissed me off, because she had gone thru those albums a couple of years earlier and made copies of the pictures she wanted. Now she has both the copies she made and My originals. When I complained about the ancestry case full of stuff, she brought me the case, EMPTY! What a total *****!

Richard, you had talked about that plug in. I checked and it is available for a PC in the current version. Have you looked again? I almost bought that plug in, but did the few corrections manually and got good results.

My next big project will be to find a good resource to send my few 8 mm movies to be digitized to something I can store on a computer. That will be expensive.

You can get asphalt in different colors, or concrete for that matter. Concrete would last longer and here is is about the same price.

So, rain for the weekend then?

I like to take graham crackers and break them up in a bowl, put milk on them and eat them like cereal.

I don't think I have eaten a graham cracker since I moved away from mom and dad. I know I have not bought a Oreo in my life. I might have had a dozen of them in the last 40 years. I have never been into sweets since I found beer. If I am going to have empty calories I would much rather have a bowl of Chex-mix and a cold beer. Now I refrain from the cabs and salt and beer and eat an apple or a banana, orange or grapes. Lots of great fruit, and something healthy.

I have fruit as my dessert for lunch everyday. My downfall snack is popcorn. I love popcorn with plain old butter and salt. I have been known to eat fresh squeaky cheese curds and popcorn for supper. I like it with soda pop made with real sugar. Usually Throwback Mountain Dew or Butterscotch Rootbeer out of a glass bottle.

We have a Rainier cherry tree, a Montmorency cherry tree, a Fuji apple, State Fair apple, some sort of pear and a plum tree in the back yard, plus a grape vine. We just made room for more grapes. Last time we had almost 19# of grapes from our little vine. We use the grapes and hte sodastream to make sparkling grape juice.

I used to do that too. Great substitute for actual cereal.