When we went to the Key West there was a lady there with her kids. It was a typical looking American mom, and she took some photos with her kids with her phone. On the iPhone with the phone locked, I can swipe from the right and the camera opens up, ready to go. It is just a camera, and it has no access to any other part of the phone even other photos. So I could hand it to her for some pictures.

I back up my phone to my computer with the long password so it stores everything encrypted. Just plug in a new phone and restore, and I have everything back. I have never lost or broken a phone. My phone is an iPhone 6S so it is several generations old. It was released in 2015 and I remember getting it in December, so I guess 4 years ago in one month and and a day.

I guess the iPhone 7, 8, X, XR, XS, 11, 11 Pro Max have been released as well as the larger version. I guess some day I will get one of the new ones for the better camera, and more speed. As a cheapskate, it just ain't time yet.

Android phones do that also, though mine you double click the volume down button for the camera.

What you need is the new smart phone coming out with a 5000MP camera, 34" screen and is only 16#. OK, maybe that is a bit hyperbolic. Maybe.

I want the phone to have the new Canon sensor, 50.6 Megapixels! And the ultra wide angle to super long telephoto lens.

Actually it is just astonishing what my old iPhone 6s camera can do. The new cameras are just the next evolution. In the "olden days" when film was the only choice, I can remember spending a day to set up a product shot, and get the lighting just perfect in the studio with lots of money spent on lights, and getting a professional level image.

Shooting a room in a commercial building could take several hours to get the lighting just right. Now it is just point and click, and my iPhone can beat what the best 35mm camera could do with the professional film. A Hassleblad was close to what my iPhone can do in seconds.

It really is cheating to make it so easy to take pictures now days. Add just take it into Photoshop and fix just about any error. So easy even a caveman could do it.

Dang kids!, get off my lawn.

Again when I compare what our new digital aerial camera can do compared to the film camera we bought, it is just mind boggling.

Our company paid $495,000 for the very pinnacle top of the line aerial film camera ever made. It was the 6th to the last one Leica ever made. The lens was over 200 pounds. In the crates ready to ship it was 500 pounds for the film backs and camera body, and lens. It was mounted to a $30,000 stabilized mount in a dedicated Cessna 206 with a 24 inch hole in the floor. We had to send the color film off to be processed, so for us to get a simple one shot project done took 4 days at least, and the cost of the film and processing and Fed-Ex shipping was $200 or so.

We flew a project on Saturday. We only used $38 in fuel for our 182. We had it done on Saturday afternoon. We waited until Tuesday to send it to him. It is sharper, and better in every way than the old film camera could produce. Even if we charge ourselves $150 per hour for the airplane and pilot time, we had very low cost in it.

Oh and the film camera required a fancy $70,000 scanner to digitize the film.

Whew. Pelican is back up. My withdrawal was rough. I had to take a nap!!

no kidding. if my phone had died I would have had to resort to smoke signals.

There is no way my wife will share her chocolate with random kids ringing the doorbell. So we turned off all outside lights, and closed the blinds tight shut. No trick or treaters for us. The dogs could get their beauty rest and not be barking and it was a cold night out there anyway. I suspect most parents took they kidos to the mall or some other business to trick or treat indoors.

we tried but no one came. So the office is going to get a sugar high.

We are out in the country so we went grocery shopping. Kids went into town to get candy though.

As a kid, growing up on an Air Force base, it was the perfect place to trick or treat. The "good ol days" of lots of candy, 100% safety, and virtually every house had kids and gave out candy.

When we finally got too old to trick or treat, we would have fun scaring kids, which is what they all loved. Our old bulldog Igor loved kids, but he would just watch them and not bark at all. The screen door was aluminum for the bottom half and only screen on the top half. So we would sit Igor on a chair, and his large English Bulldog head was just above the aluminum. All a kid could see was a dogs head 3 feet in the air, just watching. Kids would approach the door and they all would exclaim in amazement wow, that is a BIG DOG! We told them to take just one piece of candy of the big dog would get em. We just set the bowl out on the porch and let the kids take a piece of candy. Igor just watched.

We have no sidewalks and no street lights. That and most of the kids are high school or college aged so we don't get any.

We have sidewalks galore here. One out close to the street and there is concrete up around the house so I can walk completely around the house, and never leave the concrete. So lots of edging.

The boss's wife made me drive her to the local mall this afternoon. I know how to get to the far corner parking lot on the side of the mall that is out by itself, surrounded by curbs on two sides. And the secret entrance to the mall that has no traffic. We went in there, and right to the place with the earrings she wanted to see. She saw em, approved, and pointed and grunted, and I am now done with birthday and Christmas presents for the year! Score.

We are going to celebrate my sister's birthday tomorrow. The kids are riding along but Mrs. Flipper has to work. Boy only cares that we have meat and potato in the meal. Well, mostly meat. The girl likes almost all foods. We could go to a Thai-Lebanese vegan place and she would be happy, but Greek is her favorite.

My wife's birthday is three days before mine. For those three days she is "way" older than me so I call her a cougar, since I am only 18. Of course the fact we have been married for 27 years makes that math a bit fuzzy but mental age is calculated differently. At least I count it different.

We neither need much of anything in reality. If I have some gizmo or thing I need I just buy it. She asked me what I want for my birthday and I was stumped for an answer.

I think my wife has bought more car parts since we have been married than I have. Not just little things either, the last being a baffled oil pan and pickup. Got a nice Spyderco EDC knife from her for my birthday also. There isn't much I actually need, but lots of wants and she somehow keeps track of all that.

That is how we are. She certainly did not "need" more earrings, but it is a female thing I don't understand. I just say yes dear and keep her happy. The old happy wife, happy life thing.

12/25 is coming. The wife can think of lots of things she wants and I on the other hand have come up blank.

Well we did a test sleep in for tomorrow. I got up 30 minutes later than normal. The dogs were about to collapse from hunger. They real really hate the fall back time change. They prefer the spring forward thing, and would prefer we do that every week or even more often. Their tummy time does not watch a clock, but is seems to keep pretty good time.

Since I don't have a holster I decided not to tote any guns around yesterday. I did not see anyone with a gun either.

I may download the driver's license app and see how that works. I will keep my analog DL handy as always. Evidently only Louisiana has digital DL. Who woulda thunk LA and OK were the lead on going digital for something like this.

We slept late, by nearly an hour, this morning. I can do this!

It’s a beautiful morning here in SoCal. A bit crisp now (low 50s) going to the mis-70s this afternoon.

Whassup guys? D’ya have the shift-to-standard-time blues?