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I have been monkeying around transferring all the galleries I have on the site from my old gallery software to a WP plug in called NextGEN Gallery.

All the titles and captions were in a text file and they have to be cut and pasted into a form on the new gallery page. I’m also trying to make them all consistent with title – caption – and date taken. All had a title, some had captions, while others had a date and a lucky few had all three.

I’m getting there, probably have 90% done, but that is only of the 760 pictures that are not of Post Offices. There is another 453 of them.

Last night at around 11:30 as I was lying in bed reading I heard a loud BRRRRRRRP noise that lasted for 5 or 6 seconds. It was right out side the window. It happened again but for a slightly shorter time. But this time it didn’t quit, the sound level went down to a dull brrrrrrrr…

The only only thing mechanical right outside our bedroom window is the A/C unit. When I opened the window I could tell that was where the noise was coming from. I checked the vent and air was coming out, but it wasn’t cold anymore. I shut off the thermostat and went to sleep. Tomorrow was another day.

This morning I called a repair place and they said they could have someone out to the house about 3 o’clock. I took the afternoon off from work not only to go home and wait, but to accomplish a couple small things around the house that needed doing. The fellow called at 2 to ask if it was OK to come over now. He made the call from my driveway. He had knocked, but didn’t get an answer. That was because I was on the back deck washing off a year’s worth of mildew and dirt with the pressure washer.

He was done in about a half hour, the only thing wrong was a dead Flux Capacitor. Actually the dual run/start capacitor for the blower and the compressor was shorted out.

That’s not really accurate, I have plenty to say, I just can’t get motivated to say it, rather wander the net. Serious case of BA tonight.

There are only 5 days left until my Flickr Pro account expires. I’m not so sure I want to renew, I could waste that $25 somewhere else.

I like hosting my own pictures as I have total control on how they are displayed, but they don’t get as wide an exposure if they are just stuck here in my corner of the internet.

Previously I used (still do actually) a simple gallery script, but anytime I changed the look of the blog I had to monkey with the script’s CSS to get the galleries to match the blog http://tinyurl.com/43e39j.

With the recent upgrade I’m trying a gallery plugin that will solve the look issue, but it doesn’t work as automatically as I’d like. It imports a directory fine, but doesn’t create all the thumbnails http://www.mr-miata.net/?page_id=4087. Plus I will have to re-title and enter the captions for all those hundreds of images (453 just of Post offices.) Oh well, what else do I have to do?

How about captioning those last 120 vacation photos before you forget what they are of.

I went out to the edge of the lawn and retrieved the paper. We ate both breakfast and lunch on the porch. Other than that, neither of us have been outside the house. Unless virtual forays via the internet count.

The weather was calling for an 80% chance of rain, so we had planned indoor activities. We watched the first 4 episodes of this season’s Law & Order: Criminal Intent, caught episodes 3 & 4 of this season’s In Plain Sight and the movie, The Changeling. It never did rain. Until the day was 80% over.