It's 76 degrees out today. On January third. Now you know why there are no snow plows in Little Rock.
The "happy" fellow in the picture above is the guy who sits next to me at work. He's been working at the newspaper since 1956, or thereabout. Don't let this happen to you.
I tried to make the picture look like a comic book page, but I think I just succeeded in making it look like there was something wrong with the camera. Oh well.
Finally, I'm able to update this! Geez, I don't know if it was my computer or AOL, but I couldn't update the normal way, then all of a sudden it started working again.
So, my goal for the lovely new year is to get all my photos organized. This entails scanning in old photos for which I have no negatives, sanning old negs for which I have no photos, sorting through all the photos and negs I do have, and getting a grip on all my digital stuff. So far, I'm up to 1972. Ha!
The photo above is one of the ones I don't have a negative for, that I'm trying to restore. As you can see, the emulsion is turning yellow and disappearing, not to mention the cracks and specks. If you click over to photo number two, you can see what I've done so far. Which isn't much, I know. But I have the rest of the year to finish it, right? :)
So, did everyone eat their black-eyed peas for good luck today?
What? You don't know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, it's a southern thing. Something about confederate soldiers only having black-eyed peas to eat or something. Seeing how the war turned out for them, I don't exactly understand where the good luck part comes in. I've heard some people put a dime in the peas, and whomever is served the dime has extra-good luck. If he doesn't choke on it, that is.
Pass the hog-jowls, Jim-Bob, I'm hungry.
