Friday December 28, 2012

Friday December 28/12  update #325

Bella was off to the weaving store today and then off to her bridge club.

I snuck out to talk to the people at LauryVan where we bought our stove.  Since the stove must still be under warranty I felt they needed the chance to make things right.  The oven doesn’t seem to want to heat any more that 350F which is border-line for a lot of cooking.   We have toyed with the idea of insulating around the stove and even replacing the stove.  They have said the serviceman will come tomorrow.

Coming home I was amazed at how many vendors are selling effigies on our main corner!   These effigies are to represent all the bad things of the previous year, politicians, etc, and they are torched at midnight on New Year’s Eve, and all that cellulose and nylon makes a toxic stink!   Now why anyone would want to torch Miss Piggy or Kermit is beyond me, however I do understand burning the Hulk in rollers, lmao.

I had to hang around for Rosa today anyway so I arranged for my friend Paul Wolf to come and help me with my PhotoShop program.   When I have 1,145 photos to edit I don’t want to be doing them all individually from scratch.  95% of my photos get the same treatment so we are going to figure out which of the 3 options supplied by PhotoShop to use.   I have another free program called PhotoScape that can do a really decent Batch Edit but I preferred to have the options, or actions, given by PhotoShop, so we put our heads together to figure it out.   Paul runs CS6 and I stick with CS5 so we scratched our heads a lot and he showed me lots of amazing possibilities for adjusting photos.    We finally got a solution working fine with only a small glitch in the photo-naming, which we can’t seem to solve, so we’ll just live with it for now.   It is easy to just drag and drop a batch onto an icon, it opens the program, rattles through the files and processes them all with the actions chosen, and renames and saves them in another file.  Man, will that ever save me hours of repetitive work!!  It is as good as the PhotoScape operation but with the advantage of my favorite touches.   We’ll have to give that a try, probably tomorrow, on the big batches.

That was today’s excitement.   Hugs to all.   Please see all photos at http://souvenircuenca.blogspot.com/