DeRidder LA., wow memories.

Stationed at Ft Polk 1970, I had an apartment in DeRidder. A city that had all of the characteristics of a very deep south city. Three bathrooms, a balcony in a movie "theater" that smelled, torn seats, carpet rotted from the water fountain, etc. Guess who sat in the balcony. I never went back.

The railroad tracks had another function in those days.

Outstanding!

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So training the crocks to associate humans as a food source is just good fun. Brings to mind a airboat captain in the Florida Everglades who liked to show off his "resident crock" to boat passengers. Trouble was, at his last show off he lost his hand and then some. Against the law in Florida to feed crocks.

Looks even better when downloaded. It has been installed as my desktop background!

My son was suited up for his first t-ball game. As we came in view of the ball field he exclaimed, "OH LOOK! There is another team."

The gator had every right to believe you were his GrubHub delivery!

In 2009 I took up the chore of digitizing several bins of 35mm slides. As memory serves I found a slide batch feeder at B&H that stacked ?100 slides. Set the slide scanner for best quality and some recovery processing and had desktop and the scanner run all night. Great success, excess on several mornings a cardboard slide frame jammed the feeder and that was all for that night.

After all sanned, I sold the scanner on-line for something less that I paid for it brand new. Kept the box and all parts and pieces for the best price.

In 2009 I took up the chore of digitizing several bins of 35mm slides. As memory serves I found a slide batch feeder at B&H that stacked ?100 slides. Set the slide scanner for best quality and some recovery processing and had desktop and the scanner run all night. Great success, excess on several mornings a cardboard slide frame jammed the feeder and that was all for that night.

After all sanned, I sold the scanner on-line for something less that I paid for it brand new. Kept the box and all parts and pieces for the best price.

A Nissan with a personality. When my 4-Runner was totaled while stopped at a red light, we had to quickly find another vehicle that would tow my 5,000 SeaRay boat. Found a 2017 Nissan Armada Platinum with <40,000 miles for a price we could afford. Dream car that is a joy to drive.

Quite by incident, learned it has a MPG enhancing feature called A Smart Charging System. The car's computer decides if it has to charge the battery or not avoiding having to run the alternator. My education happened after a local trip to the doctors office, a restaurant, and my residence (on different days) and, surprise, the battery is dead - no start. Jumper cables anyone. First no start towed to the Nissan dealer who said it had to be the battery, so new Costco battery goes in. Then two more times in the next several weeks.

Take the car to the this Nissan Dealer as ask that "Joe" (forgot his name) fix the problem. Well Joe removed a wire, and did something to the car computer? and now sports fans, my battery is always fully charged. And that was a mere $450.00, my lunch money for several days. I am so Happy to help Nissan fix their design problems.

I have a huge photo collection from Elementary School days to present. Many of the older pictures are, well, old and have faded and have been digitized. Others were 35mm slides that I bulk scanned, and saved as jpg.

I ask your recommendations for a software app that would bulk process the old pictures adding some color, clarity, contrast. An AI functionally would be ideal.

"Mercy to the guilty
Is cruelty to the innocent"

-Adam Smith

Pictures taken by Dan, a summer neighbor and year round resident.

Qimage Ultimate, a stand-alone or plug-in is fantastic to print your pictures. It even will analyze the picture and decide if perceptual or relative colorimetric will provide the best color.

Replacement value might be replacing a total loss with a used unit with the same specs. Replacement cost to my understanding (with USAA) is the purchase cost that I quoted when I registered each camera item with them on a personal articles floater policy. Damage, theft, etc all covered. Years ago my Nikon fell to the ground as the lift-gate opened. Cost to repair was about $1800 with the cost of new $2100.
They sent me a check for $2100.

As an aside with household goods insurance, there is a game afoot. I.E. State Farm, and many others, in a homeowners policy provide replacement cost coverage for your personal property: furniture, lamps, silverware, clothes, etc. HOWEVER, in example, say you have 100K coverage, and the property is a total loss, in a fire. All your personal property (shown in your inventory photo - stored elsewhere) are gone, up in smoke. So, they might give you a check for $10,000 and tell you to send each receipt for your purchase of each like item lost. WOW. A two seater couch lost is not a 3-seater couch, and so on. Model of your stereo, etc. It is called a "Hold-back" Can you imagine all the work to collect, and to 100K???

In Florida my insurance company (Tower Hill) does not have a hold-back - and on verification of the loss would send you a check for $100,000. Oh, just learned that tools in this policy are valued at current used prices.

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