I woke up early and wanted to go walking but when I got
outside, it was this fine misty rain that in time soaks through to the skin and
I did not much want to be soaked by the time I got back home, so I sat down and
started on my Sunday School lesson. This
next lesson is on fasting. Probably will
not have too many people stay for class when they find out the subject matter. It takes me a week or takes me all week to
prepare the lesson for Sunday and even after all that I am still feeling like a
fish out of water.
On Saturday when we went to the Health Fair at Rite Aid, I
listened to a presentation by Lamey Welham shoe store. They had a bunch of really spectacular shoes
there to talk about and one caught my eye.
The lady said that it would last a lot longer than other regular tennis
shoes, and probably they will, but they are more for Runners than walkers and I
was interested in trying them on. So
this morning, since we had the morning off, we went over to the store to look
at shoes and inserts. They have a machine
that measures pressure points in feet and it is fun to stand on and see what it
registers. I asked to see the special
shoes and I put them on. I did not like
the feel of them and did not think that $175 was a good expenditure on
them. She mentioned that I might like
Asics and I just bought a pair of Asics at Famous Footwear this past Saturday. So we left there and went to Wal Mart to pick
up my prescription and a small bottle of
Nutella, and then to home. Nutella is
the newest dip for corn chips. We had
decided to eat lunch at the Archives before Manny came and so we packed up our
lunch and headed off. Anne and Anthony
were eating lunch when we got there.
Dr.Suess wrote a book “The places you will go” among others
and Shel Silverstein wrote a poem called “Listen to the Mustn’ts” which has as
its final line “anything can happen child, anything can be”. Well today proved no exception to that line. While we were at
lunch, my phone rang and it was Sean Duffy, Bill’s big boss from Saffeway, asking him to
come back to work for them. Now that came quite out of the blue and was
very much unexpected.
We spent some time on the phone calling our doctors in Prescott to make our appointments for when we get home. Some prescriptions are in need of being renewed.
We had a phone call from Manny and he said he was going to
be at the Archives at 1.30pm instead of 1pm and so we went back to our room and
we set up the table and the camera and it was fully focused and ready to go
when he got there. The first thing he
said was that we should take the table away because it really was part of the
light setup and the light setup had been turned around to accommodate the
cradle. He also said that we need to buy
something that is 30 pounds weight like a bag of sand to hold the structure
down rather than the two heavy things that Peter brought up that are totally
unstable anyway. He then said that the
main table on which we had the cradle when we got there was sufficient for our needs and so we found a piece of black
foam core board and he used some ”D” clamps to hold it steady while I taped the
rest of it. He then said that the camera
needed to be higher (this has been the big argument this whole mission whether
the camera was high enough or low enough and whether we had the camera focused
properly). So he reached up and tried to
move the camera up and the whole thing came crashing down onto the board we had
just set up. Luckily he had the camera
in his hand while the metal frame that held it fell onto our foam core board,
and made a big dent in the board.
OUCH!!!
Last week I had found some wrenches that I did not know what
to do with. Today I found out what they
were good for. They are special
hexagonal wrenches that fit into the bolts that had been holding the stem of
the camera stand in place. He said we
should have tested this out – but how were we to know that the bolts were loose
and that the thing would come apart? So
we tightened the bolts and then he said that the Camera was loose. Well Duh!
It has been that way since we came and we have no idea that it is
supposed to be tightened into its place by these same wrenches. How in the world are we to know these
things. I am glad that it was not tight
up to this point because we have had to change the camera orientation with
earlier captures and if it had been
tightened down there is no way we would have been able to take the
image. I have often said to Bill that
this stuff that we work with is totally primitive and at dinner tonight Manny
told us that there is a new version of DcamX coming out and when they tried the
beta version recently, it did not work.
Guess the Gugu Garage that houses the Computer Geeks needs to go back to
the drawing board. So we wondered
whether the blurring of our work previously was the result of the camera being
loose in its mount and not tightened down.
Ahhh the pitfalls of greenhorns working in a medium and area that is
totally unfamiliar and totally unrelated to anything they have previously
undertaken to do.
We had previously arranged for the staff to take Manny down
to the archives below us to show him all the boxes and boxes of stuff that is
on the docket to be done. He was unfazed
by the enormity of the amount of work that he expects us to do before we leave
in September. He also was shown the
humidifier room and the process was explained to him and the fact that there is
a lack of folders to put the papers in and the whole litany of problems were
explained to him but still he insists that it all can be done before we
leave. Perhaps we do not need to sleep
of a night time but work through 24/7 to attempt to get it all done but
actually we will only scratch the surface.
I had not seen the 300 boxes myself, but I did see them today and I am
overwhelmed with the enormity of the work.
In pursuing his goal of getting it all done NOW, Manny went to talk to
Davie Cheever, head Archivist here. Mr
Cheever said that perhaps he could wrangle the folders to put the newly
humidified records in………….is there no one listening or seeing the amount of
work ahead of us?
We spent about 2 hours looking at the records downstairs,
talking to people about the task ahead and also trying to get the camera
focused and the other adjustments made.
It was pretty interesting , even after 9 months of groping in the dark
by ourselves trying to master this process, and even after all the adjusting and
re-adjusting the camera (he put it up high………..AAARRGGHHHH…………….after all the
lectures we have endured about having the camera down low) it was easy to
observe that even Manny was having a hard time getting the camera adjusted and
the LSI and focus done correctly and to advantage.
Manny offered to take us out to dinner tonight and we
accepted. We went to the Longhorn Steak
House and it was a much better offer than going to Line Dance Class – but I
really like line dance. I could not go
to dinner tomorrow night because we are supposed to be going visiting teaching
to Rose and she only has one day here and there that we can go to her home. It was between two good choices I
suppose. I called Mary Hitchings and
told her we would not be there and asked if anyone had adopted Puffalump or any
of the Woozles. She said that some
people came to look at Puffalump but that he is way too old to be adopted and
so he is still in the pound along with the Woozles and even though the pound
offered two kittens for the price of one, out of all the cats they have there
for adoption, only one was chosen and it was not one of the kittens that Mary
had fostered for the pound. I am sick at
heart that the marvelous and magnificent Mr. Puffalump and his Woozles are
headed for euthanasia because of the glut of animals in the pound at
present. All that caring and vet fees
for services down the tubes because these marvelous little kitties did not get
adopted. Life is hard at best and the
kittens will fare no better than what the pound has to offer.
Life is hard for everyone – especially if you are a cat in
the pound here in Augusta.
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