The WAL

I’ve just finished burning three copies of a DVD containing all of the photos taken of my family in 2007.  Yes, that means I finally finished labelling them all which means I’m only seven months behind.  Next phase will be to catch up the 2008 photo sorting and labelling.  This will probably take me until sometime deep in September.  Being caught up will be interesting and unusual.  I think my next major catch up project will be the digitizing several years worth of paper journal entries.  That’s going to take a lot longer.

Half way through chapter 24, more or less.  After that, chapter 25 and then I need to go back and write chapter 13 which only exists as a very brief outline right now.  Another week until I get to write ‘The End’ more or less.  Definite progress.

The great thing about digital cameras is that you can take as many pictures as you like.  If one doesn’t turn out, delete it and take another, and another, and another.  No developing costs, no physical storage and no financial cost beyond batteries unless you print them.

The downfall of digital cameras is the shear number of pictures you wind up with.  I take a lot of pictures during major family events and a few scattered around the calendar otherwise, anywhere between 50 and 150 in a typical month mostly, but peaking a lot higher if we go on a trip or vacation.  I’m not so good at labelling them right away and so I’m really far behind.  As in, up until a couple of weeks ago, I hadn’t labelled most of 2007.  I’m on a quest to fix that with now only September to December of 2007 left to go through, 622 photos.  Doing about fifty per day, which doesn’t take that long, but breaks it into bite-sized chunks that make it seem like it’s a manageable task, I should be done in less than two weeks.

After that, I’ve still got nearly 1200 for 2008 so far, about half of those from our most recent vacation.  Paleoboy has his own camera, a gift from his maternal grandparents for his last birthday.  He’s got 700 photos downloaded to the hard drive.  This could take a while.