Thursday, 11 September, 1997 07:18

Well, I just wrote a lot of stuff for nothing. After the entry was written (and before it was saved, natch) I decided to scan in some pictures. The scanner locked the machine up tight, so I lost all that I had written. So I will attempt to reconstruct it. The original was at least twice as good as what follows, BTW...

I have had enough sleep, finally. I slept from 12:00 yesterday until 20:30 last night, got up and made an egg-and-cheese sandwich, ate it and then went back to bed when Karen did at 21:30. I started waking up hourly at 01:00 and dozing back off; I finally gave up and got up at 04:30.

I spent the next two hours catching up on journals that I had put on hold the last week. I have never before gotten so far behind.

Yesterday was a beautiful day, and so will today be. Pre-autumn here in the midwest... it was actually cold when I went out on the deck for my first cigarette this morning. Incidentally, I have been doing very well with that, I haven't smoked in the house at all!

I got a letter from IBM, saying that they would send me a free copy of their new Via Voice, since I had recently bought their Simply Speaking Gold. Via Voice is their new naturally-speaking dictation system. I never really got into using the older one, though. Too much of a hassle.

I'm saving this document every paragraph. I can learn new things...

This is a picture of Cousin Ralph and Brother Dan. I'm thinking it was taken in 1945 or '46. Dan looks to be about four here. Click on the small image to go to the bigger one, of course. Ralph is wearing a cowboy hat, so his face is shaded, and Dan's is in full sunlight. Not really easy to get the right balance. There are ways to change the contrast/density on just part of an image, of course, but I can't figger it out...

Here's another picture, one of Dan and his first wife Nancy (now deceased) in 1963 when they traveled through Topeka on their way to Washington,DC, where Dan was being transferred. Their visit coincided with a solar eclipse (I can't remember if it was total or not, and I'm too lazy to look it up!) so we had set up various pinhole devices to let us view it. Again, click on the picture to see it in it's full glory...

And finally... a picture from Carol Peddle in response to my Kansas Sunrise. The picture was taken by a friend of Carol's, that's Carol standing on the dock... thanx to Carol for letting me use this!