I was doing audio books when I was working. I just downloaded them to my MP3 player and later as MP3 to mo phone. Since I retired I still keep am audio book on the phone for traveling but that is not as important as it once was. I am not making the daily 30 min to hour commute.

I can take the kindle to the deer stand and read until it gets light enough to see. I can turn the back light down so there is just enough light to read and it does not spook the deer. I read 30 minutes when I get into bed. It allows me to settle down then I turn it off and go to sleep. It will turn off If I I stop reading. The battery lasts forever. My kindle 2 still works. I did order and change the battery five years ago. Not that difficult to do and it was cheap.

I have two kindles. A kindle 2 and a paper white. Paper white is back lit so good for reading in bed. I can check out kindle books from the local library on line and get books from my Amazon Prime subscription.

Lots of free classics just for down loading available. I have everything from engineering text books. The classics. Operator manuals and hundreds of popular novels on my kindle. Not to mention quite a collection of reference books dictionaries etc.

Always in my brief case, hunting pack suite case etc.

A whole lot more interesting than the lecture I sat through in engineering/physics class.

The problem with subscription software is internet access. I live an a rural area where internet is hard to come by. Have HughesNet for internet access. 20 Gig plan. Everything is going on line and it is impossible to use. I try not to use any cloud base apps.

In addition my Adobe Lightroom subscription has went crazy. Consuming more then 300 gigabytes of disk space for meta data.

:-{

Epson Photo Scanners seem to be out of stock in most places. Good luck finding one.

My grandfathers house is a lot like that.

My grandfather was the Damn Yankee in the family. He met my grandmother at the rail station in a nearby town. He was in the Calvary traveling to San Antonio for training. Fought in Cuba.

After his service he came back and married my grandma. My great grandfather gave them some land with an old stage stop on it. That is where they started out. This is 150 acres in Waller TX.

Later they built the current house. It is a small story and a half built of rough sawed oak. Nails were cheap at least they used plenty of them. I helped with a couple of remodels and no way you could remove a board with our destroying it.

Raised 8 kids in that four bedroom house. At the end of the WWII my dad wired the house a trade he learned in the CC camps. My uncle added plumbing a few years later when the well pump was added.

The old stage station was used by share croppers and later hay storage until it fell down.

I live on the place in a different house moved from Houston built in 1945. My uncle lives in the old farm house. I will have to get some photos of the old house for posting. I have some historical ones and need to take some current ones.

If you look real hard you can still see where the Stage Line ran.

:-}

I like that one also. Looks like a heart or something else.

Thank you. One of my favorite places to go canoeing. That was one of the better days.

Thank you. One of my favorite places to go canoeing. That was one of the better days.

More reflections from a calm Day at Martin Dies State Park. Taken a few years ago.

In Martin Dies state park from a Canoe on a very calm day.

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Windows 10 in General sucks in reliability and the constant changes cause problems. Performance is way down memory usage is going out of site.

I was using Windows 7 before that XP to develop systems used in oil exploration handling massive amounts of data. Windows 10 broke all of that. System management changed. Tuning the OS for fast data collection became next to impossible and changes on every update.

These systems were installed on research vestal away from civilization. It has become unworkable. A photo of the instrument room on a small vessel. You can see the recording system in the background.

Not quite true. Yes you can delay them for a while. If I wanted to get up at 2 am and start an update I can do that.

Otherwise it will happen and exactly when is not that easy to control.

I would probable write a script and software to start it at the proper time and get that to work but I am not going to that much trouble.

Just going to go to Linux and be done with it. A lot of work but better in the long run.

Windows 10 is costing me a fortune!. I am on the farm use Hugsnet for internet. 20G limit. I use at least 50G a month. Much of it &^%%^& Windows 10 UPDATES. ENOUGH. I pay $3 a gigabyte for these overages. Twenty Gig would be enough without these updates.

Throw PhotoShop updates on top of that. :-{

At least they should have a way to set the timeframe for these limits. I have 50Gig extra between 2:00AM and 8:00 AM. Even specifying active time of 8:00 AM to 2:00 AM does not guarantee these updates happen during the 50G window. PhotoShop that does not care when the active times are. Adobe is just as bad as Microsoft.

Forget all this &^%%$ cloud BS.

I am looking into opensource Photo Shop options also.