Okay, I’m already
late, but what shall I write about? What will interest you, my
audience?
Thursday: I ripped
CDs into my computer. Then I couldn’t find them. With each new
version of Windows they make changes also to their internal programs.
Turns out that in Windows 10, Windows Media Player now allows you to
designate where your music files are stored and in what format (.wma
or .mp3) and I had set (at some past date) the file to be one of the
music files (inside Music) and the format was mp3. I hope I don’t
ever want to make a CD with those files. Now found, I was able to
move the files to their proper location.
Friday: I spent the
day digitizing cassette tapes into my computer. I’ll do a couple
more (maybe six more) on Saturday and then continue on with catching
up on other work. This is all part of my effort to empty my house.
Digitize/computerize everything and get rid of the physical items.
Some of these items are going to friends, some to the garbage, and
some to the Thrift store. It’s been fun listening to some of the
tapes I haven’t heard in awhile, or some that I bought to listen to
and never did. Jim Rohn was one. I always enjoy listening to him.
There there was an hour and a half on the history and legends of
golf. Dad will like to listen to both of these.
Saturday: I finished
with the tapes I assigned as my project for today. One of the tapes
was our Lake City Toastmasters Club 748 40 year anniversary
celebration we had in-club. It was fun listening to old friends, to
hear their voices again, feel their personalities. Several of these
friends have passed away now. Dad will enjoy this recording as well.
We were both in Lake City Toastmasters 748, Seattle (now Lake City),
WA, meeting at 7:30 every Thursday morning for two hours, until the
day we moved to Moses Lake, WA. I was in this club longer than any
of the others: 13 years. I know the club existed for at least 60
years, I don’t know if they celebrated that. Today I looked for
the club, but it’s gone.
A few weeks ago I
finished paying another company for digitizing our home movies that
were on VHS tape. I still have a few 8mm tapes to finish copying and
then that project will be done. The VHS tapes did not live as long
as promised on their packaging, life-time. Some of the videos have
not turned out well.
The sad thing is to
think that after I’ve scanned all my papers, collected all my
writings, recorded my favorite memories, and logged my journals, that
no one will want them and they will be lost forever.
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The process of
emptying my house is a matter of steady progression. Each effort
creates a small dent,
but the dent slowly
grows. It feels good to see the small dents grow.
I’ve also started
a painting. At the rate that I’m going it will take me a year to
do it.
I’m not getting my
writing done because I keep reading yet another book. When I find
myself with “waiting around” time I start a new book. Then I
must finish it. If I leave it too long I’ll forget what was going
on. Note to me - instead of reading a new book I should use the time
to create my own book.
I was filing some
documents in a digital file I haven’t looked at in some time and
pulled out the start of a story. Since I’m traveling next week I
printed it out and put it in a notebook in the hopes that I will work
on it sometime while on my trip. That or to write something else.
It would be nice though, to bring any one of my story starts to a
story end.
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