after six months, i've finally got my scanner working. hurray! now i can start working on my college scrapbooks again. i have to wonder - did i have nothing else better to do with my time than cut out newspaper articles? i have a ton and they are all falling apart. enter the scanner...
speaking of, i have this wild idea that i hope is going to go over well with my family. i think my mom has finally agreed to let me take the old family pictures and get them in a scrapbook (read - protected environment) so that they'll quit floating around in boxes and getting bent, torn, and disintegrating in general. i think she's the last one in the family line who knows who all these people are too - and i want to get that down before that information gets lost. but before i do that, i'd like to scan in all the pictures. why, you ask? my family (as i'm sure all do) fight over family pictures. my way of putting that to rest - scan 'em all in and put them on a cd. burn copies. hand out to all family members. ta da - you have copies! now...if i can just convince extended family to let me borrow their pictures long enough to scan them...then everyone will have a copy of everything. my mom wants me to write a book about our family history someday. it'd be great to have pictures to go along with the stories and the genealogical information. (step one in genealogy: learning how to spell 'genealogy.')
so anyway - it should be interesting to see how this all plays out. once i'm done with my degree, i should have enough time to start working on this...along with my dulcimer lessons and multitude of other things i don't have time for right now that i keep putting off... i guess my life is never dull. :)
ok, ok. i'm going to bed. i'm tired...
Posted by kendra at October 10, 2002 01:04 AM