Hard to believe it’s already a week since we (Linda, Lynnea and myself) were in Nashville, TN. What was the special occasion? Nothing really. Lynnea had planned to go to Nashville to view Vanderbilt for it’s grad program, but after getting offered something better from Duke, we decided this would just be a vacation with no other obligations.
It was neat to see/hear all the country bands along Nashville’s Broadway St. Every bar had what seemed a new act every night, save the weekend, but all country. And this was for a good two city blocks which made it fun to stroll. Also the recording studios didn’t seem to stick out much in Nashville. Most were in converted houses, and every so often you see the big ones, like Curb Records and Blue Note Music. Somewhat odd.
We did the touristy things and seen the Parthenon (Nashville’s exact replica), The Hermitage, Jack Daniels’ Distillery, Broadway and the Recording Studio Row, The Grand Ole Opry and Opry Mills.
So we seen quite a bit of the city and it’s attractions,a few pix are below.
Mr. Jack Daniels Office and only original distillery building.
The Parthenon in Nashville’s Centennial Park
The Hermitage. Home of President Andrew Jackson
All in all, Nashville was a good place to visit for a bit, but there wasn’t much there to make you want to move there, unless you are a country musician.
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Guess I should have had this revelation somewhat sooner, but now everything I’ve done with the family Genealogy is listed under the subsite www.gen.michaelpiotter.com. Catchy name I know, but I hope it makes more sense to everyone than the way things were organized around here before. ***Site is now Piotter.org*** (as of Oct 2007)
The major shift(s) were the movement of the PHPgedview program now located here and movement of various data to a ‘data’ section within the website.
I am currently wishing to upload more photos and possibly digitize some of the ‘dead tree’ versions of family books I have copies of. I would need more space for storing the photos, so that where Flickr or possibly a my Blogspot blog might come in. I would like to have everything located in one easy accessible place as well. They somewhat limit what you can post and the formatting isn’t quite up to what I want, but I suppose I have to play by there rules if I’m going to have ‘free’ hosting. Shall see, because photos are fun.
As for digitizing books, I am starting to get the feeling that I could run into some trouble with that as well. It’s easy enough to scan in document to digital form, but finding a machine to do that on the cheap is gonna be somewhat difficult. Anything around Gaylord that has copy machines has the functionality, but not the addon to make digital files of said books. Then comes the copy shops, I’m sure that a Kinkos could do it, but they might be charging an arm and/or leg to do so. I have yet to try Kinkos per se, as Officemax couldn’t do it for a decent price either. I shall prevail.
Lots of thing to possibly due, I should maybe
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After playing around with the idea of personally diving into digital photography, I can proudly say that I am the owner of a Nikon Coolpix 5600. I am amazed that I got such a good deal on this 5 Megapixel camera, being that I get a free-after-rebate Epson photo printer for it and some additional Ritz coupons towards photography stuff.
The features are pretty neat, you can set the camera up to take just about any type of photo situation inmaginable, from fireworks to sepia-only, close up to panoramic, which you can then stitch together to make a continuous photo. Neat stuff.
It can also record short videos and sound clips as well, with fairly decent quality. So, yeah. I like it, and here are some samplings of what it has to offer.
MOVIE:JAMES
Click for Quicktime Movie – Starring my brother James
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