A couple of days ago I ran into Tim Phillis at Nielsen’s and got an invite up to his race track. His track has moved from the Dillon ranch up to the hills east of Centerville Rd. The new track …
I received the graining tools I recently ordered, so I guess this weekend I’m going to have to start the graining project. I’m a bit nervous about it, but I can always paint over it and try again if I …
One plant I really miss from San Jose is the beautiful and fragrant wisteria that we had growing on the arbor I made. So after erecting our deer fence the poles looks unfinished, kind of like my unfinished fence in …
Today it was another shoot with Katy, whom I’ve worked with many times over the last 5 years. This was our first Victorian shoot since she had her son Julian and she was still able to squeeze into the tiny …
We’re going to be selling off some of the vintage clothing collection so I’ve been trying to get those pieces we haven’t photographed yet documented. Since I have wonderful northern light to work with in the new studio, I thought …
At night, the pager gets plugged into this device which recharges it. There is also a vibrator plugged into it that sits under her pillow, so if any of the transmitters go off at night she is woken up by …
So far I’ve mentioned all of the transmitting devices. Here is the receiver, a pager that Lori can wear when she’s at home. It has four different colored lights for the different transmitters. Red for smoke alarm, green for telephone, …
The device sitting next the alarm clock is a sound monitor. It senses when there is a loud noise and sends a signal. So far this has been the flakiest part of the system. Some mornings the alarm clock sets …
This is a wireless doorbell. I need to make a sign for it to let people know that they need to buzz and knock. Lori won’t hear the knock, and I won’t get signalled if they use the doorbell. We …
Another device that needed to be upgraded was the smoke detector. Originally I was going to get the kind that have strobes in addition to the audible alarm. But that only works if you’re in the room where the alarm …
Our house has had a serious upgrade in the technology department to help provide Lori with more security and independence. First, the amplified phone got replaced with a CapTel phone. This allows her to talk on the phone as the …
While working on Roger Rodoni’s web site, his wife Johanna sent me a CD of photos and included in the photos were some of their draft horses, Ben & Clyde. Taken earlier in the winter when they both had their …
I recently digitized all our old albums that we hadn’t replaced with CDs and loaded them on our iPods. Lori can’t really enjoy music too much right now but she can still recognize some tunes. After listening to Fleetwood Mac’s …
I’ve often said that if you can’t find it on Ebay, it probably doesn’t exist. But this ad that I saw recently online has me a bit worried, what with all the news lately about cloning people.
While doing some Search Engine Optimization for the Aesthetic Design & Photography web site, I came across this site that copied some text from an old version of my web site. I don’t know whether I should be offended that …
