It's been an interesting year. Like all years, there have been some goals that were simply out of reach, and there have been victories and setbacks. But, overall, a good year.
In the win column, I have been getting more shifts at work. I work with a great bunch of people, so going to work is always a pleasure for me. And the extra money doesn't hurt either! Of course, more work hours means fewer hours in the week to devote to other projects.
Which means my plan of scanning and organizing my boxes of pictures has slowed down considerably. Not quite to a standstill, but close. I now think that it will exceed my initial hope of being a winter project, and will now become a 2017 project.
Although, to be honest, my photo scanning project was going slower than I had hoped, partly because I decided to not just scan photos, but to also research each one as best I could. So, time passes as I email copies to people to see if they can help me place times, locations and names to people. It's slow going, but as I progress, I am learning a lot about how to handle such a project and how to organize the data.
I have also connected with some distant cousins this year, a side benefit of the family photograph and history project. I am able to find out what has happened to some people and family branches that I was only vaguely aware of. I was also able to fill in some blanks for them as well, so I take that as an added bonus!
I am quite looking forward to 2017 to see what it brings!
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