I’m sitting around the office, kids are at mom’s, my regular Wednesday night tennis game has been canceled again, (and we’re running out of tennis weather), and I managed to get around to trying to clean up the flickr account. There’s over 4,000 photos in my flickr account, I’m trying to use it as a backup, but it’s really hard, (at least for me) to organize things in a reasonable way on Flickr.
So I’m looking through pictures, and wind up at May 2009, and thought hey, I wonder what pictures I took and uploaded just before the kids mom announced she was leaving? That’d be kind of interesting, in a looking at a totaled car after an accident kind of way. Some of the pictures were really old, like that was forever ago that we did whatever thing. So I headed over towolframalpha.com and typed in days between may 21, 2009 and today, and it came back with 888. If I was superstitious, I’d find some revelation in 888. Being less than that, I just thought it was cool, and thought about Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan, which has no connection, other than the repeating numbers, and it’s in the news a lot.
So my Flickr pics aren’t really any more organized, but I did find my previous attempts at making some sense of way too many photos somehow reasonable. I’m starting to think there was value in having to pay for film, pay for processing, and then wait a few days, or overnight, or 1 hour, (depending on the year) for your printed pictures to come back. If I’d had to buy all of that film, it would be about $537, just for the film. Processing would easily double that figure. I do have lots of pictures of the kids, although, they’re pretty repetitive.
So I’ve used up an hour, written some meandering paragraphs, answered txt’s from an old friend, who only contacts me when his website, (which I host) is down.
Sigh…
