Enough with the eating, drinking and being merry.

My plan for the holidays was to sleep alot.  It didn't happen.  I made 3 to-do lists instead: Website, General Computer and My Real Life.  At the time I was making the lists we were coming up to a Full Moon and I was so full of beans it looked do-able if I could stay focused 16 hours a day.  I indexed 6,000 more files in MediaDex, linked 700 MB of source documents into Legacy, sorted and tagged 2,500 photos of my siblings and their descendants and cleaned my house.  I also caught up on 130 emails and filed some papers. (Mail received last July.  Distant cousin goes in search of family shipwreck.  MRIN 362.)  The rest I've forgotten.  As we've come further away from the Full Moon, I've gone slightly out of focus and the lists look longer than when I first wrote them.

By yesterday I figured if I have 6 more months of dinging-around time I can finish the lists and even have time to learn some new things.  So, I decided I'll have to bite the bullet and set JLog adrift for half a year while I catch up.  

Then I woke up this morning and decided the opposite.  God, I hate decisions.  I could leave the other lists to rot and devote all my time to the website.  OK, that sounds good.

Oh, geez, that sounds terrible.  So, I've decided to not decide.  Good.  That's the best.  No decision.

So, never mind about all that.  If I have something to say I'll say it.  If not, I won't.

Highlighting graphics is sometimes a desirable thing to do.  For instance, if you have birth certificates from those old hand-written or typewriter-typed books, or passenger lists.  And you'd like to save your remaining eyesight for worthier pursuits than searching the same names over and over.  The easiest way I know is to use the FastStone Draw Board.  This can be accessed either through FastStone Viewer or through FastStone Screen Capture.  


Set your page size on fit-the-page, your color on whatever you want it to be, the opacity level down.  Click the solid rectangle, then drag it across the line you want highlighted, and you're done.  Click OK and re-save the image.  (It helps if you straighten the image first.  FastStone can also do that to within 1/10th of a degree.)

The most cousins I've found on one page is 9.  I hemmed and hawed about whether to use just one copy for all of them or one for each.  And whether to join many pages into a single pdf and annotate it with the contents for searching later.  The images are only about 1 MB each, so it's not a space issue.  Since I'm linking all my source images into Legacy, I decided to go with one image per person, numbered according to my MRIN Filing System protocol, and that works fine.

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