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Good Morning All,
This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.
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For each picture, it’s best to provide your commenter screenname, description, where it was taken, and date. It’s tough to keep everyone’s email address and screenname straight, so don’t assume that I remember it “from last time”. More and more, the first photo before the fold will be from a commenter, so making it easy to locate the screenname when I’ve found a compelling photo is crucial.
Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!
Today, a couple of random pictures from me since I have not had the time to fix the issue and I’m traveling today and tomorrow. Once I’m back home, I’ll get this sorted and we shall return to something approaching normalcy.
And suddenly the folder with all my pictures is empty. Like everything is gone. I….just cannot. So I’ll retry when I’m back home and hopefully this is just more Windows 10 file system wackiness, but right now it looks like I’ve lost all my digital pictures and scans. And that, my friends, would be tragic.
Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.
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Amir Khalid
Ooh. This is so not a good time for Windows to be screwing you over. My sympathies.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Pretty sure something probably isn’t connected to the the thingie-mo-jig(or if you’re looking at the Pictures library it’s pointing to the wrong thing).
Here’s some pics for the season that I took last night(the one with the “snow” and the clock was taken last week). I’d like to know how good y’all think these pics look, they were taken with my phone.
Aleta
Safe trip, Alain.
Joey Maloney
Oh, man, Alain, I hope your pics show up again!
Here’s a panoramic view of Jaffa Old City and the port (warning: 8MB image). The steeple on the left is the Vatican embassy to Israel. You can see the old lighthouse on the right. The port is only for small craft now but it was the primary entry to this part of the world going back over 3K years.
Ohio Mom
@Joey Maloney: I was in Jaffa once. Might be my favorite part of Israel, at least of the parts I saw.
When my kid was two, my cousin called with an idea: she was going to have her oldest son’s bar mitzvah in Israel and my family would join them.
I told her, Probably not, traveling with a kid who would have just turned three was not something I’d look forward to.
In the end, the bar mitzvah was in their home town of Louisville, Kentucky while my little family was in Tel Aviv for five weeks.
Ohio Dad’s company sent us all there because they had a big contract with the Israeli government and they needed half a dozen computer engineers to go to Israel and test the system out. Traveling with a just-turned three year old was just as much as a hassle as I thought it would be.
In more timely news, looks like the hospital will discharge Ohio Dad and his new heart valve today! Hooray!
Mustang Bobby
I know all too well the panic that sets in, Alain, when you click on an icon and see “This folder is empty,” or worse, the Blue Screen of Death. I hope there’s a recovery method for you.
@Ohio Mom: Glad to hear Ohio Dad is on the mend.
raven
This is a picture of my “compound” in Korea in 1967 looking west toward the Imjin River. North Korea is just over those hills. I’ve put together a Facebook group of guys who were in my unit at that time and one has a ton of great photos from there.
Mustang Bobby
@raven: That looks cold. How long were you there?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ohio Mom: My step-daughter always says that she’s never been to Korea; I tell her that’s not true, she went with her mother when she was 2 and doesn’t remember it. She and her mom are planning on going next year, if Korea is still there?.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mustang Bobby: I get the BSOD on occasion when I connect my bluetooth headphones to my computer. There’s obviously a bug in the BT driver for my network card.
raven
@Mustang Bobby: 13 months, 67-68. We had these heaters that took a 5 gallon jerry can of diesel hung on the side. It had a pump and you fired the dude up and the fuel dripped on a metal plate and they got red hot. Unfortunately a can didn’t last all night so most of the time we slept in out down bags anyway. Then there was the field, I’ll never know how those guys in the war were able to survive in that shit.
Mustang Bobby
@raven: That heater sounds like something dreamed up by Wile E. Coyote.
I lived in a house in Frankfort, Michigan, for a winter. It was a summer cottage with no insulation and an oil heater for chilly August nights. To this day the smell of fuel oil takes me back to shivering under two down quilts and a struggling heater.
Raven
Oh yea, diesel brings back many memories
debbie
@raven:
Jeez, that looks like a very, very cold place.
debbie
@Ohio Mom:
Great news about Ohio Dad! Way to go, big guy!
HeartlandLiberal
I do not see any pictures in this diary. I am using latest FireFox 27, not using NoScript at the moment, and AdBlock is turned off to support the site.
As for pics on your computer, there are data recovery options, including firms you can ship the drive to that can recover almost anything, at a cost, of course. Just don’t use the drive until you try doing recovery, every action you take proceeds to overwrite what might be recovered. Just google computer disk data recovery.
Hope it turns out to be something simple.
FWIW, google Lauren Weinstein data recovery. Lauren wrote a blog a couple years ago about a firm that for $300 did an amazing job of recovering data for him in what looked like a hopeless case.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@HeartlandLiberal: I think Alain was going to post pics, but they disappeared; however if you read some of the comments, a few of us have pitched in to help out?.
Ohio Mom
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Your poor wife, on a trans-Pacific flight with a two year old — not to mention the other passengers on that flight. No toddler does confined space well.
I have sympathetic retroactive PTSD just thinking about it.
I’ll be leaving for the hospital in a little bit. It appears that discharging a heart surgery patient takes hours. I understand the paperwork is called parole papers.