I'm in a conundrum. I have hundreds (maybe thousands) of old photos that I just don't look at any more as much as I'd like to. They are mainly of my travels and so I'd like to share them too. I can't decide whether to send them out to an online scanning service or scan them myself. Probably cheaper to do it the latter way but much more time consuming to do them myself. However many of them actually are in small albums so they'd all need to be removed either way. Dick is suggesting that I see if I can borrow a scanner to try it out for myself first. Maybe I'll do that.
Having spent 4 hours in the emergency room last night with Dick, I am grateful that we have health insurance. It all started with a phone call from Dick saying he had fallen off his bicycle on his way home from work, and would I come and collect him as he was a 'bit banged up'? I rushed there and the first thing I saw was that I could hardly see his eyes- he was having a severe allergic reaction to something that was manifesting itself in his sinuses. All he could remember was having a huge sneezing fit after he 'woke up' having fell off his bike. 'Woke up'?? He couldn't remember hitting his head, although the scrape on the right side of his forehead showed he'd definitely banged his head. His first concern, naturally, was that the bike and his laptop were ok. However, we did not hang around to check them over, we just loaded them into the car- after he taken an anti-histamine that I always keep in my bag. For Dick to say he is hurting is unusual enough,...
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