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Birthday with Van Gogh

Planned ahead and it turned out perfect…well almost I planned an unusual birthday celebration for my best friend and fellow blogger. It was better than I expected. I purchased tickets to the Van Gogh Immersive in Los Angeles at the old Amoeba Music building, now Lighthouse. I watched the promo videos and it looked amazing. I asked a friend to watch over my mom who is 94 and he said yes.…

Have you ever looked at something and say, wow, why didn’t I think of that? OR, why didn’t I see this sooner? With the holidays coming and lights needed everywhere, you can never have enough plugs and extension cords! I wonder why the extensions do not have the grounding plug. Most of my electrical things have plugs with the grounding plug. My favorite brilliant idea product was made in 2001.…

Graphics Can be Free

AND Graphics can be Royalty Free (which means you buy a license) You need to know what your end product will be T-shirtHousehold itemsTech items, like cell phone coversFrameable ArtPersonal Accessories If you are doing Print on Demand such as a Zazzle store, you will want to get art or photography in the public domain or that comes with a commercial license. Stay away from downloading from a…

Masks in My Experience

Mask mandates are creating a level of difficulty in my relationship with my closest friend, who happens to be half-deaf. She reads lips, mine, to understand what I am saying. When we are out together, she relies on me to listen to masked retail clerks and wait staff and then help her to understand. When I am masked, I lower my mask, tell her what was said and raise up my mask, so the others will…

Tokoyo, Japan has done a beautiful recycling job for the Olympic Medals. Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals are made from recycled cell phones. Imagine how many phones it would take to extract the metals from the cell phones for even one medal. https://www.cnet.com/news/japans-tokyo-2020-olympics-medals-are-made-from-old-phones/# Read about the design and the detail that went into these beautiful…

Sometimes you might want the screensaver not to come on and you don’t want to manage it by nudging it every few moments. Did you know the placing the mouse on top of a watch with a second had does that nudging for you? The optical mouse detects the movement and the screensaver does not get activated.

Endangered Monarch Butterfly in Backyard

Photography by Circe Denyer https://linktr.ee/circod The Monarch butterfly is endangered and every time I go to Monterey I see those signs; ‘plant Milkweed’. I love the Monarch butterfly. It is a regal orange and black insect that gives me great joy when I see one. One of my Facebook friends said “Seeing a butterfly means joy, beauty, fragility.” I have to agree, those words are the feelings I…

Are you buying Emotionally? Be Aware of Fake Sales

Image by Mohammad Hassan – Piabay In the months to come, our emotions are peaking with the thoughts of getting back to normal. During this time are you buying emotionally? Are you eager to purchase because of the joy you feel that you could be socializing again and feeling normal. It is important that you know the scammers are taking advantage of the emotions of the people now more than ever.…

A few days ago a friend told me of a mutual friend posting on Facebook about a monarch butterfly in her yard after purchasing a plant that attracts them. I love butterflies and Monarchs are endangered. The very same day that I viewed Toni Polucki’s post about her butterfly, I was in the backyard of my mother’s place looking for an opportunity to catch one of the small birds that frequents the…

Better Photographs – Easier setup webinar

I spent an hour watching a webinar, TWICE, on photographing birds in flight. Most of the webinar covered that topic and some of it covered camera use. It was that subject that got my attention and caused me to watch again. What I discovered was I have lots to learn! This am I took my D850 Camera outdoors to test the information I thought I got from the better photographs webinar. I took…

Spring Cleaning! Create a New Password

Create a strong password to replace your current ones Use unique words – Don’t use obvious words like “mypassword”.Have lots of characters – Longer passwords are more secure.Nothing personal – Don’t use your name, your online ID, street address, etc.No repeated characters – 11111, aaaaa, ccccc, C1111.Your email password should be the most complex and different – see ideas for complex passwords…

Elderly, and Others Getting Taken

The elderly, those with memory loss or people who are a little naïve, are getting taken by companies everyday. If you know an elderly person or someone with a memory loss, be watchful of the things that are being told to them by advertisers, scam artists, Internet emails and the like. I have been recently aware of the ease at which those who are for some reason unaware of how the system of…

Twenty20.com is a micro stock agency site with challenges. I have gotten into the top 20% in some challenges and for that I get excited. I have connected on Instagram with a few other photographers, one of which NEVER uses her phone for pictures. Her work is excellent. Her tagline is Shooting “all the things” Brisbane, Australia. I should consider creating one… Then there are others, one that…

The gray bird sat at the top of the tree across from the drive and made many diverse and beautiful sounds. I wasn’t sure at first it was a mockingbird. Then one morning I had the privilege of taking a picture of this bird with a 600 mm lens. I was amazed and pleased that the images were crisp and clear of the golden eye and white and black striping on the wings. Google images verified the ID. A…

Passwords: How much is your time worth? My online time has increased and now with a password manager, I have some back.

Passwords and their management can take a great deal of time.

Creating and saving

Changing and updating some list

Finding one for a place that is rarely visited

Making sure it is secure enough

Understanding the hierarchy of secure passwords

Wouldn’t it be better to have that time back? Would it be safe to say your time is worth more than the cost of a Password Manager?

I was using a free program…

Let’s stay informed about COVID-19

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The news frightens us and while being frightened is not the worst, it does cause us to focus on the negative and not positive thinking . When we think positively, we find solutions, and are inspired to be in the right…