I wrote up an article on how to be a Danish parent today.
This is why I’m not writing other stuff. There’s just so much juice in the
carrot, as they say.
Summer hours have hit the DJ now that June has arrived.
There is a bit of disagreement over the way to do it. Personally, I go for the
half Friday every week approach, since I can turn that half day into a full day of
something and thus get three-day weekends all summer. I think this comes from
the debate life style, which always seemed to start at noon on Friday. Others
prefer the full-day-off approach every other week. Sure, it’s a whole day, but
most people seem to use it to do chores. Chores? Chores are those things you
put off, not that you do on your day off. Very misguided, if you ask me.
Not that I did anything all that exciting this weekend. I
have given myself the project of taking all my old photo books and scanning the
important pix (inevitably of people or, occasionally, highly regarded cats) so
that we can preserve them for the ages. This is, of course, a real-time
project, that requires not only loading the scanner but then fixing the
pictures. I managed to link Apple’s Photos app to an editing app called
Affinity, which does a really nice job of improving things with various levels
of hands on and off. I used to use Photoshop Elements but it disappeared in one
of my hardware upgrades. Whatever. Photos itself is good for cropping and
tilting and not much else, although that’s often enough with pictures I take
now. But getting some of these faded gems into something viewable is a
different issue. Once or twice I’ve simply thrown up my hands and transferred
to black and white, but mostly I’ve been settling for a nice string of
gradations of beige. I’m still in the 70s. Maybe I’ll post one or two if I think
they’re worth sharing beyond the gene pool.
Meanwhile we’ve managed to settle Penn down a bit. No
Lexington, sigh, given that it cost a million bucks or so for the weekend but
we will have Kaz, which means that the tab room can run on the debate side. The
Pennies have some ideas about speech, and if we can wrangle in the Paginator
and the Monocle, we’ll be in great shape. Of course, I’m only in it for the
cheesesteak lunch on Saturday and the crepe brunch on Sunday. No one has ever
accused me of having the wrong priorities.
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