It's almost November, and most of the fall projects have been completed - it's just about time to consider winter projects!
In fact, as I type this, I have just cleaned off my scanner in order to get back to scanning pictures. I've discovered that digital copies take up less room than physical ones!
While I do not intend to get rid of all the physical media, I do intend to thin things out to a more manageable size for both personal and storage reasons. I have seven or so storage boxes full of photographs, negatives, and slides to sort through.
As I have written before, the material is the result of several generations of family hanging on to things. I am the last member of this particular branch of the family, so I have inherited, or been saddled with, dealing with the material. I am also the last member of the immediate family who still has a chance of easily identifying people and places in the photographs - while my memory is still fairly good at remembering what I have been told about the pictures, and family history, and what I can recall personally.
However, this is also a project that has taken on a life of it's own as I work at it, and change and refine what I want to do with all of the material.
Currently, the plan is to scan everything, identify the people places and times, store what I want to keep, and dispose of the rest. So far, my disposal options are to send the material to the people in them, trash, or I have also contacted local archives to see about donating them with the intent of saving bits of history.
Of course, none of that has prevented me from collecting more material. While doing some internet research of people and places, I have found some information and photographs that are of interest to me. Such as passenger lists, history and photographs.
I am beginning to understand why some people reach the point of just tossing everything, but so far I am too stubborn to throw in the hat!
Sunday, 29 October 2017
Sunday, 15 October 2017
October 15, 2017
I may be hunting for a new pen.
I went through this last year, and eventually ended up with a Caran d'Ache 849.
While I still love that pen, I have noticed that the colouring seems to be starting to rub off in the most handled areas. It is starting to be noticeable around the top of the pen, where you click it. Underneath the orange, it is starting to show white.
I know, not enough to really say I need a new pen! But I now have to choose, do I continue to use it daily and let the wear happen as a badge of being used? Or, replace it?
Tough choices. My former pen gave me close to 35 years of being a daily pocket pen before I felt the desire to replace it. I suspect I may replace this one, not because there it anything wrong with it's functioning, but because I would like to try something else. Or have been swayed by seeming something shiny and new.
A part of me just wants to order new pens, and see what they are like. But that can get expensive fairly easily. I am looking at a TWSBI pen that I bought before the Caran d'Ache, and while I like it, I don't like it enough to be my daily pocket pen.
I've tried fountain pens, and roller balls, and gel pens, but for me, nothing works quite as well as a ball point. As much as I would love to be a daily fountain pen user, it doesn't seem to be a good fit for me.
I'm thinking I should start charting pen measurements to see if there is a measurable basis for the pens I like - weight, length or diameter. I do know I have what is called a cramped writing style - small writing in less lofty terms. So I already know I prefer a finer point. But sometimes I wonder which came first; my preference for a finer point because I write small, or I write smaller because I use a finer point?
I went through this last year, and eventually ended up with a Caran d'Ache 849.
While I still love that pen, I have noticed that the colouring seems to be starting to rub off in the most handled areas. It is starting to be noticeable around the top of the pen, where you click it. Underneath the orange, it is starting to show white.
I know, not enough to really say I need a new pen! But I now have to choose, do I continue to use it daily and let the wear happen as a badge of being used? Or, replace it?
Tough choices. My former pen gave me close to 35 years of being a daily pocket pen before I felt the desire to replace it. I suspect I may replace this one, not because there it anything wrong with it's functioning, but because I would like to try something else. Or have been swayed by seeming something shiny and new.
A part of me just wants to order new pens, and see what they are like. But that can get expensive fairly easily. I am looking at a TWSBI pen that I bought before the Caran d'Ache, and while I like it, I don't like it enough to be my daily pocket pen.
I've tried fountain pens, and roller balls, and gel pens, but for me, nothing works quite as well as a ball point. As much as I would love to be a daily fountain pen user, it doesn't seem to be a good fit for me.
I'm thinking I should start charting pen measurements to see if there is a measurable basis for the pens I like - weight, length or diameter. I do know I have what is called a cramped writing style - small writing in less lofty terms. So I already know I prefer a finer point. But sometimes I wonder which came first; my preference for a finer point because I write small, or I write smaller because I use a finer point?
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