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A selection of pictures from this week’s trip to SeaWorld San Diego.
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When I was in high school in Kingsville, Texas, the group I hung out with sometimes went to the city cemetery…. At night! I occasionally went with them. I quit going to cemeteries sometime in the mid-1970s, until recently.
San Diego doesn’t appear to have a lot of cemeteries, certainly not like my home state of Texas and other states throughout the Bible Belt South. However, there are three huge cemeteries right next to each other that I drive by a few times each week since they are near freeways and stores that I visit regularly. I finally stopped by earlier this year and found them interesting. I walked around looking for the oldest date on a headstone but actually found the headstones themselves to be even more fascinating. Following is a selection.
Picture 1 — That really was his name?
Picture 2 — Words of advice for Alice or from Alice?
Picture 3 — Who drank the Bud Light?
Picture 4 — Wonder if he wrote a book.
Picture 5 — A beautiful poem for those who believe in God
Picture 6 — I’m not quite ready to follow.
Picture 7 — I wanna see the rose!
Picture 8 — Another beautiful poem
Picture 9 — Whatever’s right
Picture 10 — All bases covered
Picture 11 — The cowboy evangelist will ride again
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I like to frame my pictures but the framing function (border) at WordPress is lacking, at best.
I used to use Corel PaintShop Pro X4 and CorelDRAW! X6 to do frames. In fact, Zoey the Cool Cat’s stamp of approval in each post is done in CorelDRAW! X6.
My focus over the past few months has been on Adobe Photoshop CS6, so I was extremely happy recently to find the various framing functions. Many of the frames can be done with Actions, or you can do your own frame and set up your own Action. Actions are macros, or scripts, that allow you to do the same thing over and over again, very quickly.
Following are some recent pictures of birds at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park which were framed in Photoshop CS6.
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Whenever I need something beyond groceries, gasoline, and other daily needs, I like to do a lot of searching to find the best person or company to meet my needs. I don’t shop by price, reserving that tactic for groceries, gasoline, and other daily needs.
In the early morning hours of September 1, 2011, I had a serious computer problem. Not a great time to be having such problems because so many businesses close for holidays. I knew that if I didn’t get my problem resolved on Thursday or Friday, it was highly likely that it wouldn’t be resolved until the following Tuesday. I might have to spend four or five days not blogging. That would be devastating….
I resorted to a Google search for “San Diego mobile computer repair.” I called the first person in the returns, but he couldn’t come out until Friday morning at 8:30. I really wanted someone on Thursday afternoon, or even Thursday evening.
I called the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh……….. companies. None of them could come out until Tuesday after Labor Day. Sounds like some people wanted the weekend off.
I returned to #1 and asked if 8:30 on Friday morning was still open. It was. How lucky for me.
That #1 company was aGeek2Go.
My Geek, Nick, arrived a few minutes earlier than 8:30. After just an hour of testing things, he determined that it was the power supply. Unfortunately, I had a mini-tower computer, and power supplies for my brand weren’t available. However, Nick found one on the Internet for just a few hundred dollars. Add in shipping and installation, and the cost would be more than a brand new computer. I guess you know what I did.
Because of my description of how my computer failed, Nick thought that the hard drive might also be damaged. While I was buying a new computer and setting it up, Nick took my hard drive back to his office to recover a life-critical file. He emailed it to me that afternoon. Too bad I gave him the wrong file name; I was now on life support.
On Saturday morning Nick brought my hard drive back, set up so that I could use it as an external hard drive. All my files were there, including the critical one. The fact that I had no idea what the file name was makes a good case for doing things manually. My computers are so automated that I don’t remember file names like in the olden days. I just click on little icons and everything runs automatically.
aGeek2Go‘s price was reasonable, and Nick was the ultimate professional; knowledgeable, personable, and helpful. To get all three in any one individual, especially here in Southern California where so many people are of the ME generation, was an unexpected surprise and pleasure.. So thanks, Nick! Here’s to you!
If any local readers need quick computer repair at reasonable prices, I can highly recommend aGeek2Go, in case you don’t have one in the family.
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I went downtown for a late afternoon walk which turned into a late afternoon/early evening walk. As my walk was ending, some sort of weather phoenomenon struck downtown San Diego and gave me this:
That ranks as one of the more beautiful weather phenomenons I’ve ever seen, and I have absolutely no clue what caused it.
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I don’t celebrate Christmas in a traditional way, i.e., with presents and all the to do over someone who died a couple of thousand years ago. That just seems strange to me. However, since about one-sixth of the world and probably 90% of America closes down on Christmas Day, I have little choice but to close down with it. That doesn’t mean that I’m not going to try to stay open.
Christmas tradition in my family over the past 18 years means a trip to the San Diego Zoo and finding somewhere to eat so I don’t have to cook. The first is easy since the Zoo is always open on Christmas day. The second is a little more difficult.
If you’re in San Diego on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day and are looking for fine dining, I can highly recommend the Little Italy area of San Diego.
I’ve have been to Little Italy on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day for the past three years. Considering that Italy arguably is the most Christian country in the world, I think it’s kind of funny that Little Italy here is always open and doing great business on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Nonetheless, I can highly recommend it for Christmas, or any other day of the year, too!
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The person who can name all the feet here gets an “Attaboy” unless the person is a girl, and then it will be an “Attagirl.”
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I met Fred in Old Town San Diego and would like you to meet him, too.
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One of California’s most-visted state parks is right here in San Diego:
Old Town San Diego actually was the most-visited State Park in 2005 and 2006. Regretfully that wasn’t good enough for the State, so they fired Diane Powers, the woman who had run the commercial side of the park for thirty years, making it a great place to visit, stroll, eat, enjoy….
Control of the commercial enterprises was handed over to Delaware North, located in — you guessed it — Delaware. How a company in Delaware was going to manage a southwestern park 2,800 miles away was beyond the comprehension of most of us. Indeed, Delaware North failed. The number of visitors and revenue both plunged, eventually causing Delaware North to quit. Sadly, the damage was done, and Old Town San Diego is a mere shell of its former self. I used to go monthly. Now I go maybe once a year simply to see if it’s still there.
Located in the Park are many historic structures saved from the wrecking ball, two of the most significant of which are:
Casa de Estudillo — An adobe house built in 1827 and one of the oldest surviving examples of Spanish architecture. It is listed as a California Historic Landmark (#53) and a National Historic Landmark.Additional structures include the first San Diego courthouse; the first public school house; and a general store, newspaper office and print shop, and stables, all from the mid-19th century. There are several other historic buildings, gift shorts, restaurants, and local events. Give Old Town San Diego a try if you’ve never been there.
Casa de Estudillo
First San Diego Courthouse
Ye Olde Soap Shoppe
McCoy House
Fiesta de Reyes
Old Town San Diego
First San Diego public schoolhouse
Cosmopolitan Hotel
Whaley House
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