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Hootoversary
Posted May 9, 2019
I nearly always forget mine. But this year I've remembered. So 
to me for 19 years on the site!
Back in the day I had the U-number 122832.
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Bach again
Posted May 8, 2019
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Back again - Ghosts, John Steinbeck and little boys
Posted May 1, 2019
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Forty-two
Posted Apr 18, 2019
We celebrated our 42nd wedding anniversary this week. Well, no celebrations actually took place because we are in our son's flat in Silicon Valley, looking after his little boy whilst son and daughter-in-law take a short break. It's a 24/7,exhausting job, but great fun!
So we are now in California for practically the whole of April and won't be back in time for the 20th anniversary meet which I really would have loved to attend. Even if it had meant a stopover at Heathrow between San Francisco and Frankfurt!
For the last few days here we shall be off sightseeing. Maybe I'll have some stories to tell about that later.
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Digitalisation
Posted Mar 7, 2019
I've done all the CD's now, and have finally opened the Cassette Digitiser I bought ages ago to start transferring all the kiddies' Musicassettes that our children enjoyed in the 80s, for the use of the grandchildren (and probably even more for the nostalgic enjoyment of their parents!)
However, the gadget is not very good, and even when it's plugged into the laptop, the cassettes are driven by battery power which means they stop, start and, worse still, go faster and slower at different places. Impossible to sing along to!
Also I've broken a tape already, and can't for the life of me remember where I put that repair kit all those years ago.
I'll have to see if I can hitch up the stereo (yes, we still have a cassette player there!) to the laptop and hope that they will play a bit smoother that way.
To think that cassette tapes were the state of the art medium at such a crucial time, and many of them are now useless.
I also have a record player that converts vinyl records to mp3s, but it doesn't seem to be working properly.
I know mp3's aren't thought of as good quality sound, but this is mainly for use in the car, and quite honestly, I'm not really very sensitive about this sort of thing.
I'm definitely going to have to put in for my pension now, as this looks like becoming a full time job. I wish hubbie would start on digitalising the tens of thousands of slides he has stacked away - I'd love to see them again, and they will be fading even as I write.
By the time we get round to the VHS tapes, the digitised formats we are now using will probably be out of date. But then, we shall probably be six feet under and someone will come along and chuck the lot out anyway.
Just realised that it's a blessing that we never even started on Super 8.
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