THIS AND THAT

I have a distant cousin who sends me the cutest email sometimes. Yesterday, John sent me a Hooters Calendar I really liked. Take a look.


I spent yesterday playing on the computer. The switch from Linux to Micro Soft will really take me a while to get used to. It's going pretty well. The blog is OK, and of course the email. My two printers, "George" and "Julia", are working, with a couple of small glitches. I'm able to scan pictures now, and that's a big plus. I found pictures I'd taken a few years ago, scanned them in and uploaded them to my Flickr site. In fact, I played with Flickr for quite a while. Digital cameras are great, especially since my eyesight isn't what it used to be, but I really enjoyed using the good old SLR.


Here are a couple of old ones that I enjoy. The ducks were local. The natural bridge is in Santa Cruz, CA. As always, click to enlarge.


There are so many. Between those that I shot myself, and those that my daughter has sent to me, I have hundreds of pictures. I must say, the biggest advantage of the digital is that we don't have to spend all that money on film and developing any more. I used to make a little darkroom of the bathroom. Wow! That was long ago.


My Micro Soft system doesn't have any games that I enjoy. The only mahjongg game it has is this one. Rita likes it. I don't. I liked the one I used to have. Can't remember its name, but it's the one in which the tiles took up the whole screen. It didn't take much real thought. I would play it while I was on the telephone - sort of like doodling, I guess. It was pretty much like playing solitaire. Just something you do without thinking - or rather, while you are thinking of something else. this system does have dozens of games, just none that I want to play.


Kitty sent more pictures that she had taken while they were here. One of me with Isaac outside of the lighthouse. One of me with Rita, inside. (No, we didn't climb it that day.) I wonder how many pictures of Cape May Light I have taken in the past thirty years. I've tried to photograph all the lights in Jersey. Got most of them. One day I'll have to do a post with all the ones I have managed to capture. As you can see, it was really cold and windy that day. Isaac was even holding onto his hat. Don't know why I wasn't wearing one. I was just huddled up inside my jacket, shivering. But my grandson's hugs warmed me up. That will do it every time.


But a few minutes later, he was just sitting by the lake, pretending to fish, and not bothered in the least by the cold.


Well, enough of this rambling on about nothing. Time to go eat breakfast.


Oh, but before I go, Kitty has a pretty funny post today. You might want to check it out.