Stijn!!

[Porsche-poor]

Yeah I still walked the foot path to the door and the driveway last night. I plan to do it again tonight after they are gone again.

[GH85Carrera]

We still find nails after a hard rain that are washed out of the gutters. Our gutters are original to the house, so nearly 30 years old.

Recently, after we had our new roof done, the code in Oklahoma changed. Now they are required to replace all the decking even if it looks fine. I think it must be a plywood association's full employment act. It sounds crazy to me.

[ted]

Almost a perfect pump.

[GH85Carrera]

We are closing in on 4.5 inches of rain over three days. Some areas are way above that.

The rain is supposed to stop today sometime. It is 53 degrees again. The heater has been running, on may 25th in Oklahoma. Weird.

[Porsche-poor]

We got a bit of rain yesterday. The roofers stayed till 7 to finish one side to the roof line. They should be done today.

[GH85Carrera]

We need to renew our passports by the end of the year. We have no immediate travel plans, but we want to keep the passports up to date. So we went to the local Walgreens and got our passport photos taken.

They did a good job of the photo, but with digital of today it is a pretty easy process.

Geezer voice: "well back in my day!" at my first job with a paycheck, we shot passport photos. Back in the olden days it HAD to be a black and white photo for passports. We had a 8x10 studio camera mounted to a rail road like track to move toward or away from the subject. Our studio had a dozen different light sources, and the power of each was adjustable, hanging from the ceiling so they could be moved with ease. The 8x10 camera could take a piece of film that was indeed 8x10, so you can imagine it was a LARGE camera, and it needed a sturdy support column. We had an adapter that would take 5x7 film, and that had a "split back" so it would shoot two 3 & 1/2 x 5 images one at a time, on the one piece of film. Process the film, and use the 5x7 enlarger to print the best of the two images. The boss was a wizard at portraits. He knew just how to light a face, and he made most everyone look better in the photo than they did in most all snapshots. We had to reduce the image size of the negative so it was called an enlarger, but was technically a reducer.

All of that was replaced with cheap digital camera, and an inkjet printer. Perfect color photos in 20 minutes.

[GH85Carrera]

Yesterday afternoon about 3:00 PM the rain was still falling lightly, it was 64 degrees, the power went out. Back on, back off, one more time, then off. I got an email from the power company telling me there was an outage and it may affect me. As I was without power, I think it did. They estimated it would be back on in 15 minutes. They missed that estimate, and 10 minutes later they send a second email, and estimated another 2 hours. So I started shutting down my electronics on the four battery backups I use, except the router and modem. so we had internet. That UPS is older, and the battery started at 70 minutes of runtime, but started dropping to much less quickly. When it got to 10 minutes, I shut it down. We were left with only cell phones to entertain us. No need for heat or air, and the windows were providing plenty of light.

It was the perfect opportunity to rearrange the UPS that powers the security, DVR, and the cable TV DVR, and my TV and amp. I got that done, and about then, way before their estimate, the power came on. I guess the first estimate was pure "male optimism" as my wife calls it. The second estimate was someone that was a Star Trek fan and learned from Scotty, always estimate twice as long as you really think, and no one complains when you fix it way faster.

Power was back on about 4:30 for good. If ya gotta have a power outage, it was a good time for it.

I don't know if it was a driver crashing into a power pole, or a lightning strike. They were on it very fast, and got us back up in reasonable time, and they sent several emails to let me know what was happening.

[Porsche-poor]

Sounds like great service. Ours is spotty when it comes to alerts and time frames. I think it has to do with who is currently working when it happens.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by ted

San Diego low 70s May gray followed by June gloom.
The Marine layer in Oceanside is not a prostitute.
Natures AC the hot deserts pull in the 1,000 foot thick low cloud layer that burns off late mornings.

I encountered that right after I moved to CA. I had to take the Cobra up to Oceanside from El Centro to have it smogged. Came through SD in the morning and got wet. Came back through later and got sunburned. Shoulda wore a hat. Made good time on I8 on the way back!

It didn't pass smog. It had a Chevy linkage on the Carb and a Mopar engine so no go. Found out later it was exempt anyway.

Rain here the last couple days. Sunny tomorrow and then thunderstorms in the evening.

[GH85Carrera]

I am working with a client that must be new to ordering digital products. It is a nice print job, and those are analog 34x48 prints and something to touch and look at in the real world.

They also want a copy of each image. OK, no problem. Then they say they want me to send four copies of each image. I had to work hard to suppress a giggle. I guess I can make files with the name copy one two and three and one master, but that is just stupid. So I sent them a link to the file, and told them they can send it to anyone at all they want to have access to the file. I don't care if they make one or a hundred copies of the image.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Roofers finished about noon yesterday and the silence was wonderful.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

Morning all. Roofers finished about noon yesterday and the silence was wonderful.

WHAT?

And hopefully no leaks when it rains.

We ended up with 5.03 inches of rain over three days. Lots of soaking rains. The sun is coming out today and we get to get out of the 50s. We broke or tied several cold temperature highs for the dates.

[Porsche-poor]

Well its being rain tested right now.

[Porsche-poor]

Keep up the pictures Glen those are fun.

[GH85Carrera]

Friday is back.

It is funny, many people have casual Friday, I can't get more casual then my regular shorts and t-shirt for the weekday. We always go out to eat on Friday night date night. So I usually get "dressed up" and wear a Polo shirt, and shorts. Today I am delivering a stack of 19 - 34x48 prints to a client, so I put on my Polo shirt with the company logo embroidered on it. Gotta look professional!

[Porsche-poor]

Its been casual Friday here for 496 days.

[GH85Carrera]

One of my photographer friends got a job at a major corporate oil company. Dress code was a coat and tie, polished shoes, and even casual Fridays required a tie, just no suits, a sport coat was the casual part. He was making a decent paycheck, and had health insurance and a retirement funding.

His company was a client of ours at the old company I worked at. He and a crew of three engineers showed up at our office to check out out work before final delivery. The computers were churning, and my current business partner was wearing the 3D glasses and producing the contour files from the 3D images.

We were in shorts and t-shirts when they all arrived. We showed the engineers how we do the work, and some of the film from their project, and the $75,000 film scanner, and computer programs. They were all impressed and of course they were all in business attire.

We used to call our office the Monster Garage. We would park the cars inside if the skies looked like possible hail. The then co-worker now business partner sometimes parked his car inside so he could do an oil change. One of the other guys kept one of his motorcycles there.

I might have more money now if I had gone for the corporate scene, but I would have hated getting dressed up.

[Porsche-poor]

I have to get dressed up tomorrow and get on a plane.

[GH85Carrera]

I spent some time in the garage with my 911.

The door trigger was getting a bit stiff, and I do not want to to break off. So off with the door card. Golly what fun. It is a bit of a mousetrap to get apart, and the window switches wiring is the big pain. I got it apart, and lubed. Then reassembly is reverse of assembly. Or so the manual says.

It is all back together. Windows are working, the central locking working and the trigger pull is is much better.

I also got the EZ Pass mounted in the car. The Velcro they send with it is large plastic nubs, and really locks in place. For all the PA driving, there will be many turnpikes to traverse.

The EZ Pass is a huge plastic box to mount behind the rear view mirror. The Oklahoma system is a Pikepass, and just a simple flat sticker with a RFID chip in it. Really small and simple, not like the antique EZ Pass box. Ah well, it will work for the trip, get scraped off, and canceled.

[flipper35]

Spent the last couple days washing and ceramicing the cars. Supposed to be 40mph winds tomorrow. Would jet dry the cars had I waited. Oh well.