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Jun. 9th, 2010
Hello! Mr. Chips
Jun. 9th, 2010 03:15 pmOr "Tech Envy I Can Use".
Got a Father's Day circular from Radio Shack and saw the specs on a memory chip to fit my camera, for $25. SIXTEEN TIMES the memory I'm using now. Room for over 2700 pictures, or TWO HOURS of cheap-@$$ low-rez silent video.
I can dig it. Wonder if I can swing it someday.
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Dad is over at our elderly lady neighbor's place, chatting and doing odd jobs for her and so on. When he finishes, he'll bring her beloved Chrysler Cordoba here overnight so he can take it to her mechanic tomorrow morning. Again, Dad jokes to me every so often that he'll lobby for her to leave the car to me in her will.
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Mum is re-reading Black Tie Affair as prep for re-typing it for a re-issue. She got the rights back from Kensington and not only is it a slam-dunk for an e-book version, but a friend of hers who produces audio books wants it.
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Inner Child got a huge helium balloon from the used-car branch of Ted Russell in Knoxville just as they were closing overnight. Dunno how big it really is as I had to deflate it down to 27" so it could fit through Moonshine's back door.
It's raining and Moonshine really needs a wash. Sometime this week, I promise.
Got a Father's Day circular from Radio Shack and saw the specs on a memory chip to fit my camera, for $25. SIXTEEN TIMES the memory I'm using now. Room for over 2700 pictures, or TWO HOURS of cheap-@$$ low-rez silent video.
I can dig it. Wonder if I can swing it someday.
* * *
Dad is over at our elderly lady neighbor's place, chatting and doing odd jobs for her and so on. When he finishes, he'll bring her beloved Chrysler Cordoba here overnight so he can take it to her mechanic tomorrow morning. Again, Dad jokes to me every so often that he'll lobby for her to leave the car to me in her will.
* * *
Mum is re-reading Black Tie Affair as prep for re-typing it for a re-issue. She got the rights back from Kensington and not only is it a slam-dunk for an e-book version, but a friend of hers who produces audio books wants it.
* * *
Inner Child got a huge helium balloon from the used-car branch of Ted Russell in Knoxville just as they were closing overnight. Dunno how big it really is as I had to deflate it down to 27" so it could fit through Moonshine's back door.
It's raining and Moonshine really needs a wash. Sometime this week, I promise.
Writer's Block: The Worst Job
Jun. 9th, 2010 09:37 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
My father "volunteered" my brother and I to go with a family friend to mow the "lawn" (and I use the term as loosely as possible) of his neighbor on Toucan Trail in Spring Hill. This was a summer when we both were barely big enough to push a lawnmower, and this plot was just barely removed from wilderness scrub. We suffered horribly under the hot Florida sun; nobody was satisfied and as I remember we never got paid.
It's probably been at least twenty-five years since I saw the man we were "managed" by that day. Dunno if he's even still alive.
My father "volunteered" my brother and I to go with a family friend to mow the "lawn" (and I use the term as loosely as possible) of his neighbor on Toucan Trail in Spring Hill. This was a summer when we both were barely big enough to push a lawnmower, and this plot was just barely removed from wilderness scrub. We suffered horribly under the hot Florida sun; nobody was satisfied and as I remember we never got paid.
It's probably been at least twenty-five years since I saw the man we were "managed" by that day. Dunno if he's even still alive.