Tonight after work I volunteered to transfer some old photographs that were being stored in Lawler over to a CD that copies can be made from. Simple right? Yea… Well, it all started with getting all the hardware that I needed organized:scanner, laptop, extra cords, well, you get the picture right? Now I’ve scanned literally thousands of pictures and when I was talking to some of the members of the Irish Festival Committee, I said that scanning these pictures and making copies will be the easiest thing in the world. But tonight I had such terrible luck. Kyle and I got ready and after I got the card table set up, and then all the cords plugged in, the next thing was to start scanning the photos. With the amount that I had, I figured that I would have around an hours worth of time. Again, this is all based on the ones that I’ve done in the past. Well, there was something wrong and after it would scan the photo, it would just have that little circle thing spin and spin on the computer and it would tell me that it wasn’t responding. So, I’d cancel the job and reset everything, unplug and plug everything in again, and restart the computer. NO LUCK! Now I don’t consider myself a patient person and in these situations, it only proves my point. So after about 1 1/2 hours I gave up. The bad part of all this is that the person that I convinced that this would be such an easy project was also there tonight and he just looked at me and I could just almost hear what he was thinking and it wasn’t probably good. OK, so when I got home I tried it on a picture of ours and guess what? It took around 10 seconds to save a copy! Now it doesn’t make any sense why I would have to log onto the internet to do this, but I had even done that when I was there. But maybe it’s blocking something in the program or something. I’m not sure, but I’m going to give it another try tomorrow. Man I sure hope it goes better than today!
While Kyle and I were in town today, we checked out the progress on the old building that’s getting renovated. It’s coming along really fast and with a new store front already on and the back addition taken off the building, they’ll be ready for the Irish Fest in a couple of weeks.
The back part of the building was added on later. It needed to be taken off the original building
They started to fix the front up today