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     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
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Hey Ruth!
-> 
-> ->  HN> Yep Dale's was quite versatile...but still
-> ->  HN> would not have met my particular needs...On
-> ->  HN> this system I ofen will have 50 or 60 megabytes
-> ->  HN> of digital images waiting to be burned to CD's.
-> 
-> -> That's a lot of images! (G)  We just got a DVD archive of 25 years of
-> -> one of my sewing magazines; I've been subscribing for the last 15
years
-> -> and saving my issues.  The DVD will clear out part of a shelf but
more
-> -> importantly, reduce weight that would otherwise be moved to our next
-> -> place.
-> 
->  hn> What can I say....I'm a photographer...it's
->  hn> what I do (grin)
-> 
-> I know, my dad was one for 50+ years.  Probably a good 10 years ago, the
-> newspaper he used to work for gave him all the negatives they had on
-> archive file.  He said that some of them were from pictures he took when
-> he interned for them in the late 1940s.  Add those to the wedding
-> packages he did plus the pictures of his kids and grandkids--there are a
-> lot of pictures and negatives we're going to have to go thru in that
-> house.
->
You should get protective sleeves for
them, time, heat, and dust are not
the friends of negatives, and while 
they may not seem valuable they are
a slice of recorded time that has 
passed and will never come again.
 
-> ->  HN> Will get one in the mail asap!
-> ->  HN> While I'm not very good, I'm
-> ->  HN> awfully prolific!!(grin)
-> 
-> -> And when you do become famous, we will have original works of art.
Not a
-> -> Food Network show but maybe HGTV--"Watching Paint Dry." (G)
-> 
->  hn> It will go out in Tuesday's mail, Monday
->  hn> is a holiday. Doubt I'll ever be famous
->  hn> but I sure do have fun doing it!
-> 
-> That's the right way to look at it.  So many people want the fame but
-> can't handle it when it comes.  It's the fun of creating that counts in
-> the long fun.
->
Well, I totally forgot on Tuesday, but
have the envelope right here with the
bookmark in it so it WILL go into today's
mail!
-> 
-> ->  HN> In France getting cokes (vanilla
-> ->  HN> or cherry) at the snackbar was
-> ->  HN> a tradition...our version of a
-> ->  HN> malt shop....and to buy a coke
-> ->  HN> out on the "economy" was absurd
-> ->  HN> they were a buck a piece even in
-> ->  HN> the early 60's!!
-> 
-> -> The first time I went to Germany (75) everybody in the States said
that
-> -> Coke was so expensive over there.  I paid (exchange rate was about DM
-> -> 3.75/$1.00) about DM 2.00 or so for a Coke on the economy, not nearly
as
-> -> bad as it could have been.  That was 11 years before we went over
with
-> -> the Army so I couldn't have gone on post for one.
-> 
->  hn> Even so that was 10 years after I left
->  hn> France. In retrospect I bet it was
->  hn> protective tariffs that boosted
->  hn> the price so high. DeGaulle was
->  hn> pretty anti american at the time,
->  hn> and ended up kicking us out of
->  hn> the country.
-> 
-> Most likely; he wanted everybody to drink the French wines instead of
-> the imported American stuff.  I remember reading about DeGaulle kicking
-> out American forces and pulling out of NATO but was too young to really
-> understand the politics of it.
->
Politics in general is a big
bag of hoopla, more about the
egos of the powerful than the
needs and wants of the nation.
 
->  The only Americans
->  hn> the french liked to see were tourists
->  hn> with lots of $$.
-> 
-> But, of course!
->
But we Americans simply love
to visit France...heck if I could
afford it, I'd go back ! (grin)!
chat with you soon!
ha
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