Dave's Journal / July 2022
4th of July today. I am on the porch burning incense, listening to Jazz CD's (Dave Brubeck at the moment) and noticing I need to dust the pollen off this keyboard. Weather is very nice. Will get out later for a drive and probably ice cream at Kimball's.....
Floor sander guy bumped the baseboard heater pipe.
This is the downstairs ceiling.
Well . . . . I found a shell script to do screen captures at a specified time interval.
This setup takes 20 captures at intervals of 10 minutes (600 seconds) and saves the images to the "ScreenSnaps" folder. (You must "apt-get install scrot" first).
#!/bin/bash
for i in {1..20}
do
scrot -d 600 '%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S.jpg' -e 'mv $f ScreenSnaps';
done
As Deb went up to York for a "Golden Girls" holiday, I opened Google maps and tracked her in screen captures as my first application .....
Got the public library pass for the botanic gardens and drove down there. Their construction work goes on but it's a nice improvement in their layout. (The plants and flowers however have taken a beating from being transplanted.)
Made a nice picture of a bumble bee and a very nice one of the Wachusett Reservoir Dam.
(nice hat)
(1:24 scale)
The Jaguar XK120 is a roadster sports car manufactured by Jaguar between 1948 and 1954. It was Jaguar's first sports car since SS 100 production ended in 1939.
The XK120 is a highly desirable model. In 2016, Bonhams sold a matching numbers left-hand-drive alloy-bodied roadster - one of only 184 - for $396,000US. This marks the highest price achieved for an XK120 at auction so far.
Footnote: the "120" in the name refers to the top speed when it was introduced in 1947.
(looks just like my cubicle back at GE !! )
(Taking this setup to the Italian car show next Sunday.)
One of the many many Dracula movies that Hammer Inc produced back in the day. It wasn't too bad. Exellent production and typical Hammer drama (listen to the audio on this trailer if you want "drama").
But the script had people doing stupid things just to get into trouble to keep the suspense going.
Today's painfully tedious work is to prime coat some bedroom trim and molding. Hatefully boring task.
Listening to Bill Evans at the Village Vanguard (1961) got me through it.
