I hate getting these surveys about how my online buying experience was. B&H does it all the time, and it's always several pages long. I never have complaints, but they don't give up asking me until I reply. I bought an inverter for a Dell Vostro, but I haven't gotten to it yet, and they want me to do a review. It's the same for picking up an order at Home Depot. It gets to the point where I think I might order/buy from a place that doesn't harass me with surveys. They could ask if there was a problem, or maybe just ask once. That should be enough.

Anyway, that's all for now.

A long time ago when I was on Windows, I used ExposurePlot. You put a copy of all your images into one folder and aim ExposurePlot at that folder. It will go through all the EXIF data and plot the frequency of settings. As I recall it would plot focal length, shutter speed, ISO and maybe aperture. From that you can determine what focal lengths you use most often. In my case there were peaks at short and long focal lengths and a dip in the middle so I concentrated on acquiring short and long lenses. Once I finally got a full range I didn't use ExposurePlot any more. I don't know if it's available for the Mac.

I have had arthritis develop in knees and shoulders. The left shoulder has no cartilage left so it's frequently sore. I had a shot in both shoulders. They lasted about 6 -8 weeks. Rather than get frequent shots I started taking Advil. One a day in the morning. My doctor recommended Acetaminophen instead of Ibuprofen so I tried it. It took twice as much Acetaminophen as it took Ibuprofen for the same effect so I went back to Ibuprofen. Long term use can have effects on your liver and the maximum dose is the same for each so I figured that the one that was effective at a lower dose was the one to use. Three years later I take two 200mg Advil a day, one morning and one night. Sometimes I miss the evening pill and in the morning it is obvious that it is still effective. The Advil doesn't cure the pain but makes it tolerable.

I also tried a CBD Gummie, two a day. The first day was great -- it knocked out the pain. The second day the pain was tolerable. The third day it did nothing. I went back to Advil.

I would expect that different people would have different results so you might want to experiment a bit. But let your doctor know about your results because medicines sometimes interact and (s)he might have other recommendations.

The shoulder has been a problem since I was around 60. I'm now 84 and have been taking the Advil regularly for 2 years. Before that I just lived with it.

Going the e-mail rounds.





"To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except exercise, get up early, or be respectable."

Oscar Wilde



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Will Rogers



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C.S. Lewis



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Golda Meir



"I’m so old that my blood type is discontinued."

Bill Dane



"The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

Mark Twain



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Tom Wilson



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Phyllis Diller



"I don’t plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet."

Rita Rudner



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Phyllis Diller



"Nice to be here? At my age, it’s nice to be anywhere."

George Burns



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John Wagner



"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down."

Leo Rosenberg



“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.”

Kitty O’Neill Collins



“Old people shouldn’t eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.”

Robert Orben



"It’s important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle."

Unknown



"At my age, flowers scare me."

George Burns



“I have successfully completed the thirty-year transition from wanting to stay up late to just wanting to go to bed."

Unknown



"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us… at age 40, we don’t care what they think of us… at age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all."

Ann Landers



"When I was young, I was called a rugged individualist.

When I was in my fifties, I was considered eccentric.

Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then, and I’m labeled senile."

George Burns



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Robert Brault



"The important thing to remember is that I’m probably going to forget."

Unknown



"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two."

Sir Norman Wisdom



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Andy Rooney



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Larry Lorenzon



“The older I get, the better I used to be.”

Lee Trevino



"You know you’re getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead."

John Mendoza



"I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam."

George Carlin



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Bob Hope



"I’m 59 and people call me middle-aged. How many 118-year-old men do you know?"

Barry Cryer



"I don't do alcohol anymore—I get the same effect just standing up fast."

Anonymous



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George Burns



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Maurice Chevalier



"Getting older. I used to be able to run a 4-minute mile, bench press 380pounds, and tell the truth."

Conan O’Brien



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Albert Einstein



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J. Norman Collie



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Hy Gardner



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Mark Twain



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Joel Plaskett



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Dennis Wolfberg



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Josh Billings



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Unknown



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George Burns



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Ashley Montagu



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George Burns



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George Burns



"Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician."

Anonymous

Ascot in the UK, and the Kentucky Derby has, besides horses, another thing in common...outrageous ladies hats that typically are worn tilted to one side of the head. Well, my wife (first picture) was invited to a Business Ladies Tea and each attendee was asked to wear such a hat. My wife is not a business lady, and has never worn such a hat before...but just to adhere to the "When In Rome..." notion, she ordered this one from Amazon.

Photo was taken with Nikon Z5 (NEF - RAW) at F11, and edited in Luminar Neo to blur the background using
"Portrait Bokeh AI."