I hope everyone had a most excellent July Fourth yesterday! We here at Top Comments took the evening off either to enjoy the evening, or to comfort those human and fur-friends scared of the fireworks. I hope you had a chance to listen to NPR personalities reading the Declaration of Independence and also descendents of Frederick Douglass read his "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" speech. If not, go take eighteen minutes and listen to both. I’ll still be here.
Gizmo mentioned in a recent diary he was getting his house ready to be listed for sale, and I hope that’s going well! I keep thinking we should do the same, because it will force us to go through all of our stuff with much more vigor than we’ve got right now :).
One small bit of what we’ve got to go through. While not all of these boxes are 100% photos, most are.
One thing I AM working hard on, however, is somehow getting a handle on the many, many photos we have. We have boxes (and boxes...) of photos and other old historical memorabilia (birth certificates, mortgage papers, etc) inherited from my parents. We have actual print photos from the early decades of Mr. Brillig’s and my lives together, because yes, we predate camera phones and the cloud. Wedding and honeymoon photos. Trips we’ve taken, and enough photos of K1 in her early years we probably could wallpaper a room with them. Mr. Brillig has boxes of slides from trips he took as a child with his grandparents. And then there’s the photos that exist only in digital form: tens of thousands of photos from a decade of iPhone shots.
I have some wonderful pictures of my parents, their parents, and other relatives. My Mom thankfully labeled some of them, so I recognize by name people I never met in person, but others are absolute mysteries… and the people who might have known who is who are no longer with us. Do I get rid of or keep them?
To be completely honest, I’m overwhelmed.
Of course, some of the decisions are easy. Blurry photos of landscape or animals taken on childhood vacations now lost to the mists of time? Gone. Twenty-five blurry photos from my Confirmation? Definitely gone! All those photos of my sibling that don’t have anything to do with me? I sent them along and now they’re Not My Monkeys!
We do have a scanner, and I’m going through the old photos box by box and after a cursory sort to get rid of the aforementioned Easy Ones, I scan and then put those into a ‘Done’ box. The scans will be backed up to our server just like most of the photos Mr. Brillig and I took are, back when photos were developed and returned with a disc of images (remember those?!).
But we run into the problem of how do you decide which physical photos to keep, and once you do that, how to organize them? Also, the separate issue of how to organize the thousands of images on our server or in the cloud? They’re good to no one if we can’t find what we’re looking for!
Tell me, my dear Top Comments Readers: how do YOU manage the myriad images in your life? All electronic? A couple of curated albums? Boxes organized by date or topic? Or does everyone else have these boxes stored somewhere? Share your strategies so we ALL can benefit!!
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From kamachanda:
From Sunday’s Loser-Palooza' indeed: Trump makes himself center attention despite catastrophe in Surfside by Lauren Floyd comes a much needed statement of the obvious by Frank Pedraza!
From GreyHawk:
This keen observation by greenharper in my diary The Pandemic isn't over yet. Remember that embodies the root problem with evolving guidelines and the push to fully re-open and "return to normal".
TOP MOJO
Top Mojo for yesterday, July 4 2021, first comments and tip jars excluded. Thank you mik for the mojo magic! For those of you interested in How Top Mojo Works, please see his diary on FAQing Top Mojo.
Bonus: Top Mojo for July 3rd, because we know you don’t like missing the Top Mojo list:
TOP PICTURES
Top Pictures for yesterday, July 4 2021. Click any picture to be taken to the full comment or picture. Thank you to the wonderful dKos staff who made it possible to continue this feature in memory of jotter!
And yes, Top Pictures for July 3rd…
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