It had been suggested to us that we do a right/left page capture for the large books. Well, this is a very painful and difficult and time consuming activity; Especially so if you skip a page and have to insert it. I tried that and it turned out to be a mess that seemingly could not be fixed. I worked at it and it seemed to be fixed until I compared pages and it was far from fixed and in a worse mess than at first thought. The big problem with this set of books is that there is, a) no index and b) only the right hand page has a number on it. The question then is, do we note that there is no number on the left hand page and do all the corrections or do we just go ahead and capture the book? We tried the first by editing each capture to note that there was no number on the left hand page. That took forever to get done. Then we followed the advice of our supervisor and tried the left/right capture i.e. do all the left hand pages then go back and do all the right hand pages. The computer program will allow this, but as I said, I missed a page , tried to insert it, and got it thoroughly muddled. Today we scrubbed the right/left activity and just put the book back on the cradle and captured it normally. While we were in the middle of this capture, Sara called us on skype to tell us of Oliver’s summation of how she did not measure up. She got to see Bill working the cradle and she got to see the computer screen and she was fascinated by the whole process.
When we woke up this morning, we were greeted by a 3inch blanket of new snow. We were unaware that it was going to snow and I wonder if the weatherman knew either. According to the paper it was supposed to be sunny today – well after lunch it was sunny and it turned into a pretty spring day but chilly with the high temperature only getting to 28 degrees. There are more and more birds each day. At church there is a tree that has beautiful red berries on it and all winter it has been such a cheerful tree to see from inside the building. The snow used to land on the berries and they looked really pretty. Well, on Sunday while I was teaching my Sunday School class, I looked out and saw about 40 Robins on the ground or in the tree having a feast fit for a king. Today in the newspaper, someone took a picture of a robin with one of the red berries in its beak. I thought they only ate worms, but the ground is very frozen and I doubt if the worms want to rise to the surface of the snow just to have a look around and then be eaten by a robin.
It is tax time and so Bill had an appointment with the AARP tax people and his meeting was at Cony high school. I took him up there then went to the Archives. He called me at 11am – he had been there for 3 hours only to find that their computer program was geared for welfare clients and not people who worked during the past year. Their computer program could not handle such figures as Bill had. When I walked into the Archives, they wanted to know where Bill was and I told them. Art the Archiver said that Bill should have asked him to do his taxes, then made some joke about being the tax preparer for Alcatraz. The joke was lost on me. I asked about the squirrels and they said that traps had been set. I reckon that those squirrels are way too smart to fall for that one………………
I have been trying to put the Lockyer family into perspective and I wrote to 2 submitters for that name. One of them wrote back and said that he had nothing more – he had just turned in the name some years ago. Guess he needed some names to take to the temple and this one was handy – he was not thinking that there might be descendants interested in the family in the future? Pirates are everywhere.
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