Imagine this: You have a library of some 350 or so CDs and 80 or so DVDs full of graphics files. You’ve been asked to separate and catalog the photos out of all of those discs, for easy searching.

Doesn’t it seem like there would be a program or two that could do that nicely? There isn’t really. The market-leader, Extensis Portfolio, attempts to catalog ALL the files on the disc, not just the TIFFs and JPEGs as I have told it to. I have wasted so much time trying to figure out how to make this easy to do. I should just code the damn thing, and sell it, and retire in 3 years. I swear I’d be haflfway done with the program with the time I’ve spent trying to accomplish this task. Bollocks!

you are correct. I haven’t posted enough lately. I did have that whole vacation thing in there, where I was completely unplugged for 7 nights. That was nice, actually. Nothing like being out of range in a place as beautiful as Yachats, OR.

That was a great trip. Delaney got to play in the sand for the first time ever. She loved it, after we got done helping her figure out that she didn’t really want to eat the sand. Or anything she found in the sand. But that didn’t take long, and she really had a blast. It would have been an even better trip had we been able to stay in the house we usually stay in. However, they are renovation that house this year, so when we return next summer, we’ll have an even nicer place than we are used to. That should be great.

I also lost a camera to the sand. I jumped up to help DMTriafter he fell in the rocks, but my camera was in my lap. It went hard into the sand, filling itself with sand. The lens failed to open again. I am going to send it to Olympus, and see what it will cost to have it repaired, since I really liked that camera’s photos and the 10X optical zoom. It was nice to have that much optical zoom, as compared with the 4x on the replacement camera.

The new camera is a Canon PowerShot A510. Still just a 3.2MP, which I find to be plenty, since 4×6s print just fine at that resolution, and that’s mostly what I print. And it was only $200, which is almost cheap enough to not make me sad that I had to buy it. I was really planning to by a D-SLR before I bought another camera. And so it goes…

Damn, the PowerBook battery is dying. I’m gonna post this now to avoid having to save it. This is a reminder that I should do all my typing/formatting in TextEdit and just copy/paste. Maybe I’ll start doing that. Right.

tomorrow we take off on my family’s annual trip to the Oregon coast. We bring a new generation to our 50-some year-old tradition tommorow as the trip’s originators see their first grandchild join the fun.

her mommy and I are so excited to take delaney to the coast. We have a fairly secluded little chunk of beachfront property, right on the sand, all to ourselves for the next 7 nights. it’s a beautiful thing kids, out of cell phone range, no television, no internet…just the sun, the sand and our selves. see you on the flipside.