{"id":209,"date":"2004-03-15T07:14:05","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T15:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=209"},"modified":"2004-03-15T07:14:05","modified_gmt":"2004-03-15T15:14:05","slug":"afro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/03\/15\/afro\/","title":{"rendered":"Afro"},"content":{"rendered":"

I borrowed Adam and Tricia’s scanner, after failing to solve the scan line problem with mine, and as you can see, they are still visible, but less so. I’m not sure what I’m complaining about, because the scanned, monitored pics are infinitely clearer than the poorly exposed, faded originals. <\/p>\n

Ginger pressured me to post my afro pic, taken on the Cambridge Common in 1971. I don’t know what happened to the grass (maybe all the fertilizer was used in growing my hair), but the Hertz moving truck suggests the beginning of the school year.<\/p>\n

The next photo is, I assume, from Brian and Ginger’s wedding party. But why, if that is her, was Patti there?<\/p>\n

Shinydome sent me this Shoe cartoon<\/a> which is funny and wonderfully illustrated, and if you back into macnelly.com, you’ll find the history of Shoe. The Globe doesn’t carry the strip, and I assumed when Jeff died, the strip did too, but nay, nay.
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I procrastinated assembling a photo album for Flo to take to Arizona, but Saturday, with carefully selected pics from birthday parties, vacations, and Susan’s archive, Diane and I arrived at Chris’s. I figured the easiest method was to use her iPhoto to upload to Kodak to publish a book of ten pages to send directly to Flo and her sister Doris in Sun Lakes. I used an online company in the past to create the book format, and she had loved it. <\/p>\n

However, when we arrived – and after Chris totally ignored me to wrap a warm hug around Diane – she opened iDVD on her Mac and played a movie, with Moon River as an accompaniment, of essentially the same photos I had chosen. Totally independently. There it was, my “job”, all done. Not an album, but better – a DVD playable on a computer or your friendly television. <\/p>\n

Diane and Chris edited it slightly, added more photos, and therefore a different, longer sound track, and I’m mailing it this morning. A guaranteed tear jerker. It just is. Diane tells me we’ll now have to buy Flo a DVD player for her TV. After we left, Chris went back to the blog, pulled more Miller-oriented pics and made one for my mother. What a friend. Even if she doesn’t hug me anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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