I don't know how to go about cleaning a dirty mind.

I know if your brain itches your supposed to think about sand paper.

I spent some time over the weekend organizing my image files somewhat. I still have a lot to go, putting them in a proper folder structure. And I identified an instance where I re-used an SD card before archiving all of its contents, so I'm missing 110 images from a trip to the Hagley museum in Delaware last August.

But what I did learn is that I have taken 94,980 images and videos that take up almost 300GB. This was over 16 years, but still, that's a lot of files. It's so many, that I can go back and randomly look at many of them and see things that I had completely forgotten about. Day trips we had taken.

I ordered a wireless router from Amazon last week, and they sent me an email saying that I got a free year of completely unlimited Amazon Cloud service with that purchase. So what the hell, I loaded the 300GB of images and video onto Amazon's servers as another backup. My life has been immortalized now. I imagine Amazon will keep those 94,980 images and videos on a server somewhere even if I don't transition into a paying customer in a year. They will hold out hope that I'll come crawling back and pay them to get my files back someday. So future digital archaeologists can see my food pictures and pictures of taking stuff apart so I can be sure to put it back together again.

One of the few remaining places in Wilmington that J & I haven't gone to...

I really enjoyed it. But then I love old technology.

The demonstration of the massive water driven gunpowder grinding wheel was worth the price of admission all by itself, and I could have spent a day in the water powered machine shop. And the stories of the gunpowder accidents were memorable.

Sounds cool. I'll have to put that on a list.

Write it down in a letter to yourself

It really was interesting. And the "sheds" where they made the gunpowder were constructed in such a way that when an accident happened, the explosion would go off in a direction away from the village. Massive stone walls on the village side of the shed, and open air on the side away from the village. They had a lot of workers blown to smithereens in accidents over the years and sprayed onto the other side of stream in little bits.

I think the thing that is the coolest is that they just shut down production but maintained most of the buildings, so everything still works.

Facetious would be a pretty cool name. If anyone's expecting. Lola? or at least a middle name, anyway....
;)

Would the feminine version be Facetia?

Thats about 15 minutes from my place. Lemme know if any of you decide to come down/over/up...

Last night I made myself a hot chocolate, and I like it a little bit thick, so usually put a little corn starch in. So last night I must have put a bit too much in, cause it turned out more like chocolate blancmange. You americans would probably just call it chocolate pudding I suspect.

Anyway, I ate my hot chocolate with a spoon, and it was yummy.

yummy


(thanks for the way back Jim)

Interesting tip. I'll have to try that.

That sounds awesome

Need some hot chocolate to wash it down. ;)

I just finished season 7, the series finale, of Nurse Jackie. My ex bought me the DVD for my birthday. (He be my ex, but he was in the position to become my ex for a very good reason...he gets me. Yes, we are still best friends.)

I am still haunted by it. No spoilers, just in case any of you ever get hooked on this fabulous show (Jesus god Edie Falco is a fine actor, and the rest of the cast were great also) but I can't seem to get it out of my head. Resonates. I watched the first episode again for continuity. It's just brilliant. Incredibly funny, and incredibly real.