Scanning memories
While cleaning out the basement over the Christmas holidays I came over our slide (transparent) collection which has over 6000 slides built over the years. So my wife and I got the slide projector out and patiently viewed and selected about 600 slides. We have already deposited 300 for immediate transfer to CD and look forward to getting the digital images in a week or so from a local chain-store. It will cost about 60CHF per cd of 100.
After the transparents (slides) I decided to do the same with some of the photo albums, specially those photos that aren’t in albums. It was a mild sunny day today so I stayed in and scanned about 350 of them.
Here I am in Paris in 1982. You could say that I’ve just escaped from an island like Tom Hanks in Castaway.
No guesses as to which country this was taken in.
Tags: digital images, holidays, memories, photos, travelBeaThai
My wife and I met some great people the other day. Our daughter had helped with the exterior Graphics for a shop and made friends with the owners and so we made a date to go with them to visit the shop because they sell jewelry and other goods manufactured from their design in Thailand.
Bea and Philip were almost victims of the tsunami a few years back and were apparently saved by a local fisherman in his boat.
Since then, they have dedicated a lot of time, money and effort to help the victims and spent a year in Thailand working benevolently.
Now they are very involved with the Tsunami Swiss Fund and share their time between Switzerland and Thailand.
We were very privileged to make their acquaintance and I feel as if we have made some new friends. I’m sure we will be able to lend our support in the future and I will be discussing things further.
It is precious in life to meet people that are actually doing things rather than just being submerged by the problems that life throws at us. They have three children aged 6, 8 and 10 years. What a wonderful way to start life helping others. I’m sure they will grow into strong caring adults through the actions of their parents.
In addition to being touched by their kindness, they really do have a great shop and some wonderful jewelry and other marvelous items. We will be going back soon. If you live in or near Geneva why not drop in and say hello?
Pownce invites
Everybody seems to be requesting Pownce invites so I climbed onboard and requested one too. It took less than a day to get one but now you can get your own invite as I have six on offer. Just leave a comment with your email and I’ll send it to you.
Be nice and add me as a friend afterwards on my account. That will be my bonus.
On a completely different note I’ll be flying to the UK for my eldest daughter’s wedding this coming weekend. Violet will be marrying Trevor on Saturday on the magic date (07.07.07). At the same time, here in Switzerland, my Goddaughter Vanessa will be marrying Mark and that is where my wife and children will be attending. It’s a weekend of weddings. I’m sure you know people that are celebrating on that day too!
Tags: social, travel, Web 2.0, weddingReading list
