We're leaving for a couple of weeks and internet will be intermittent, so I'm offering up some older posts I hope you'll enjoy. This one's from November, 2007.
I’d like to welcome today’s guest poster. He’s a retired executive who spends much of his days taking and teaching literature classes, playing chess with friends and grandchildren, and helping his daughter renovate a seriously intractable website. Allow me to introduce: Dad.
::::raucous applause and wolf whistles:::: Thank you. Thank you very much.
Two days of hard work finally paid off as I browsed through memories of our 2007 Mediterranean Cruise. After purging nearly 200 duplications (darn that crazy computer) I had 300 images to rotate, categorize and admire. What a pleasure it is to share great art, scenery, architecture and experiences with children and grandchildren. It’s one thing to see these sights through my own eyes, and something profound and completely different seeing them through the eyes of five kids ranging in age from 7 to 17. And what an unexpected surprise: 10 people traveling together, eating together, touring together, and no fistfights serious enough to warrant summoning local authorities.
I’m reminded again why pictures are so important, and how much fun it is to share. Even my wife, Our Lady Of Perpetual Ants In The Pants, enjoyed watching the photos in a slide show and savoring with me the memories of a wonderful vacation.
Still, there had to be some wrench in the ointment, or fly in the works, or whatever. My computer spewed spite, most likely because it had been infiltrated by the evil villain, My Pictures. In an effort to ease some of the pressure I broke out the stack of DVDs I’d bought so optimistically a year ago when my current computer was new. Such mischief it wrought! After approximately 15 interactive email conversations with a computer friend, I finally navigated around all the dastardly glitches and created my first-ever photo DVD. My friend gently explained that my mistake might have been instructing the computer to: “move the %*?$# pictures to the %*?$# disk, you idiot.”
In any case, despite the valuable learning experience of creating photo DVDs, I’m going to pack up my pictures—all 4 gigabytes and 3000+ images—and send them to FeeFiFoto where I can share them with all my friends. I might even put a picture of my intractable computer on a Photo Throw to cover it up the next time it defies me.
