Friday, November 3, 2006

Happy Birthday Billy (well, not today, but...)

I spent a good portion of yesterday with my friends I've known since high school. It was a lot of fun, good times. Now I must hunt down the person with the camera so I can show you! I slept at mom's house because it was quite late when we were done (honestly, I would have done it even if it were still early, cuz I had business with mom). I did some genealogy research at her house, finding documentation to things I "mostly" knew already. (Meaning I knew most of it, and mostly knew all of it, but it's not official unless it's in writing anyway!) I burned CDs with pictures for her and each of my sisters, so they can make prints at WalMart/Target/etc. We watched a slideshow on my laptop, they loved it. Dad even asked how much the laptop cost, I think he may have been thinking of entering the computer age, but he probably won't. That's okay. =) Future project: We have dvd burning capabilities, my parents have no computer capabilities. 2+2="I need to learn how to make dvd slideshows." (Sisters have computers. However, one sister's computer is a Win98 machine whose hardware has past its prime, and the other's is a computer that once surpassed the machine that's now our server but is now laden with spyware and useless programs.) Dad was getting bored of other people's children on the computer slideshow, so our photo dvds have to have menus so he can navigate to what he wants to see or he needs to be able to click through them quickly. "Chapters" of related pictures on a timed cycle could work well.

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