Tuesday, December 29, 2015

December 29 – “App-lication”

Well, our overly tech-savvy oldest son Kel introduced us to yet another miracle of modern photo-salvation.  It’s called Google photos.  Not much to it, really.  Download the free app to your phone and tell it to go get your photos.  It saves them for free to that mysterious cloud-thingy in the sky.  My pictures took the better part of two days to complete, and things were showing up that were not on my camera.  I mean things from a long time ago.  Even some of our 2008 Hurricane Ike pictures were on there.  Oh, and the photos from Mom’s 80th birthday party.  That was held in 2000.  Only thing I can figure is that I must have had some kind of iCloud account at one time and forgot about it.  Chris’ backup is still going after three days.  She’s on number 1200 or something like that. 

The program even does weird things with the pictures you load into it.  It creates collages to see if you like them and want to save them.  My favorite thing, though, is when it takes several pictures that look very similar and combines them into an animation.  That has resulted in some really funny combinations so far.  I guess it has also served the whole purpose of the app download, though.  We need to clear out the photos on Chris’ camera so she has more room to take more. 

Well, the app commercial probably gave you the impression that yesterday was a slow news day.  Your impression is correct.  We finished our marathon watching of Star Wars I-VI in chronological order (not recommended, but then nothing in the first two movies is worth watching anyway.  I would have included the third one as well, but the creation of Darth Vader is pretty intense).  We found out that our copy of Return of the Jedi is pretty scarred up.  Not sure why.  Maybe Hurricane Ike had something to do with it.  We even watched some Monday Night Football (only because the Broncos were playing and Kel told me if they lose the Texans automatically get a playoff spot.  The Broncos won.  Not sure what that means for the Texans now). 

Grandchildren return later today, so we are getting prepared for the onslaught.  I understand we have a submarine excursion in our near future …

1 Peter 3:8 says, “Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble.”


Father, please keep our travelers warm and safe on the roads today.  Amen.

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