In the Smith’s dining room, stacked against a bookshelf, there are three feet of slide reels which Greg explained that he had inherited from his family. Sitting on top of them was a slide duplicator and viewer from the 70’s. The duplicator is little more that a lens-mount tube with 2:1 zoom marks and a slide-plate….
Author: Michael
In Praise of My Hybrid
When I was car shopping in 2007, my wife had already owned her Honda Insight for five years and it was still getting nearly sixty-five miles per gallon. I had been driving a 2001 Hyundai Sonata that had just had a major malfunction, quitting on the highway and coasting to a stop. I decided to…
There it is. No worries.
One of a myriad of reasons that my sister called to talk to me. This is probably the least of them all. But if anyone wanted to know, there it is. ZEILER, Phillip (Wulf) ZEILER, Phillip (Wulf). THE FUNERAL SERVICE for WULF will be held in the Acacia Chapel, Enfield Memorial Park, Browning Street, Clearview…
Medieval Fair 2014
I have been going to the Medieval Fair for years. It is one of those annual events that doesn’t have a consistency. I have been when it was nearly a hundred degrees and when it was barely forty. One year a mist hung in the air and it was surreal. Another the sky was blue…
Saturday morning lockout.
I never had this happen with MySiteSpace (which shows how little they cared) but I’ve poked around on my site for too long and gotten myself locked out again. I can see the heuristics working. The same IP address keeps accessing the same things over and over and over again. I’m just making little changes…
SharpShootersImaging
I completely neglected to mention that we had a pair of action shots taken while we were skiing. A company called SharpShooter Imaging was on the slopes randomly taking action shots. They stood about halfway up a run with a banner behind them advertising what ‘roll’ of pictures you would find your shot on. At…