KEH shows an FG-20 for $71 in EX+ condition (and they are very fair with their ratings and prices, having been doing the used camera gear business for decades) - you can get a quote from them at keh.com

That has happened to me a couple of times, but it turned I i had inadvertently created a "watch" for the same item a few times (obviously not all at the same time) - so when I deleted one of them it still left the others.

Well, they know they have you over a barrel since it is against the law to set up solar and take yourself off the grid, so they can tell by your meter how much your panels have produced.

Ostensibly, the reason for these charges (other states have different ways of doing it)is to cover their ever present costs of maintaining the grid itself.

In New Mexico, there are so many dispensaries that the owners re asking the government to stop issuing licenses since they are just now discovering the magic of the free market...excess supply leads to lower prices...

In her book "An American Sickness" author Elisabeth Rosenthal lays out why the system has spiraled into the horror show we experience today...it's worth a read.

Thank you - I will check that out...

So I notice that today my LR (v 13.0.1) is taking a lot longer to do just about everything, from clicking on "Auto" in the Develop module to deleting images to even moving from one image to the next in the ribbon on the bottom while in Library module.

I also have a utility called Memory Clean 3 (on a MacBook Pro with M1 CPU and 16GB of RAM), which has a function to clean out trashed memory and displays what percentage of memory is free at the top of the screen next to the clock. Today I notice that LR is driving that free memory number down to the low teens, whereas normally it hovers in the low 20's and the system works well enough.

My conclusion is that Adobe did something to screw the pooch in the area of memory handling; two days ago this was not going on (nor has it happened in the 10 or so years i have been using LR).

So, spare me the "contact Adobe " advice - my question is "has anyone else noticed this behavior"? I have not added or changed any other software, even OSX 13.4 has not been updated for a few weeks, so it ain't that.

TIA for any comments or experiences others have had of late.

Alas, I think the USPS has fudged the entire postmark deal - a couple of years back I mailed a bunch of postcards from Roswell (dropped them in the slot at the main post office there) and had written something clever alluding to visiting my alien overlords...then a few days later some friends asked me what i was talking about and when I asked them what the postmark said they told me "Lubbock". So (likely for some cost savings I presume) the USPS leadership figured it was heaper and more efficient to do the postmarking after driving the mail a couple of hundred miles away...and if that takes a day or two then does it affect the date printed?

The physical damages done at the Iranian nuclear facility had to do with the software causing the high speed centrifuges to repeatedly speed up and slow down in rapid succession to the point where the machinery was just worn out (bearings or whatever). It did not cause chips to burn out or do something to the computers themselves.

What @Mac said. But also, you might want to checck the value of these things on KEH's website - they are a (deservedly) well respected buyer and seller of used camera gear, so the price you see them selling similar gear for will give you a notion of its worth.

I'm curious what this lovely lass looks like today - is she a grandmother?

I have Excire and the Lightroom add-on automatically generates keywords as images are imported, things like "individual" or "smiling" or "glasses" as well as animals and other features of the image...it's a way of getting more metadata applied to each image without sitting and typing ad infinitum. Is it perfect? No, but they claim to keep improving it - not unlike the facial recognition function in LR, which keps getting better at identifying people but still needs my, er, "guiding hand".

So if you would want to be able to easily pull up all of your photos of, say, trains, or buildings, or birds - this can be a helpful tool.

Yes, perhaps this is a case of a badly worded ordinance (shocking - a government bureaucracy that makes mistakes!?) - - changing the working from “No person shall engage in the business of taking photographs…” to something like “No person shall engage in taking photographs as a business ….” would clarify things. Of course, nowadays, I don’t know how that would deal with someone who identifies as a horse or a fish…

I'm rather surprised that nobody remembers the attempt to do just this by Swatch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

I imagine they have appeal to the same sort of folks who like the Holga cameras for that retro analog thing...