Tag: culling

Mostly sunny with chance of jelly fish… that is today and tomorrows weather forecast.

Enjoyed the Superbowl. Folks around here were wishing everyone a “Happy Superbowl Sunday”. My team won. Carlton’s team lost.

Had salami sandwiches and some avocado and pineapple just before the game.

And I worked on my photo culling project. I am working on 2002. I developed a “rule” – delete all photos with pictures of butts – animal or human – unless they advance the story line. Oh yes, and any picture with blown highlights.

This image has both – so it has been DELETED.

This is one of my all time favorite cartoons. Wish I could run down a better version of it. And, it does describe our New Year’s Eve. Very low key. Not even any civic fireworks this year. No money.

Still culling my way thru 2003. Been wearing out the Delete key. Which is a good thing.

On the food front, the supply of meatballs has been exhausted. Sort of sad to see them go. I’d become rather fond of the meatballs.

We had our New Year’s eve feast at 2 PM. Shark, sushi, oranges and avocado. Sandwiches on tap for dinner.

I am sort of easing my way out of the 2009 and into 2010. Carlton worked half day at the Palace. He is easing into 2010 as well. He is watching VaTech in the Fried Chicken Bowl. Don’t you wish some cereal company or toilet bowl cleaner or even a soup company would sponsor a bowl game?

Guess what? Carlton and I have been together 31 years.

What was I doing in 2003? Why did I take 6,719 pictures? Surely some must be dupes. And this doesn’t include the 2,000 plus fish pictures that I have already disposed of.

I have learned how to move folders from my external drive to the Airness’s small drive and back to the external drive after the images have been culled and cataloged. This makes processing much quicker. And, I don’t have to have an external drive lashed to the computer.

Today – December 28, 2009 I finish sorting, cataloging, culling my fish photographs from 2003. Now that is progress. I really do intend to have the decade all done by the time we head for home in 9 weeks.

Speaking of the end of the decade. The first decade of the 21st century has been rather crappy, hasn’t it? Let’s see, we eased into the decade with the dot-com bust and the Y2K scare. Then we had 911, antrax, the sniper, Katrina, Enron, Bernie Ebbers, Bird Flu, Pig Flu, The Obesity Epidemic, “reality” TV, Fox “News”, Mr Madoff, the current economic melt down and the jobless “recovery”.

Took the One Buck Bus 5 miles south this morning for some photography. I came back with some rather nice fishy fotos. Which I will have all processed, culled and cataloged before the day is over. I am trying to do something about my mountain of digital images. At least I am trying to keep it from getting worse. I came home with 140 photos and now have only 38.

Meatballs again today. This time I nuked up some apples and frozen meatballs. With cheese on top. Also avocado. The food fairy provided a bunch of desserts and some bananas. Is bananas and chocolate cake with peanut butter icing dinner? It might be in my house today.

Continuing with revisiting the post-apocalyptic genre – I just started on Earth Abides, 1949 George Stewart. I read it when I was a kid and still remember parts of it. In the 50’s we  worried about being nuked. But in this book, we were all taken out by a world-wide killer measles epidemic.What you worry about is never what gets you. Something will always get you. But, it isn’t what you worried about.