The Formula

Melva's Quilt in the backyard

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.
(Herbert Bayard Swope in Night Light by Amy E. Dean, 18 March)

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Today I'm working on a project to update my CD music catalog. I put away all of the CDs that I added to the catalog. I can't remember how many months went by without posting anything. It's been so long I have forgotten how to create a report that I can save to "the cloud." I'll have to think about it. 

I posted a link to my genealogy blog that displays two articles written by friend, Charles H. Gander of Arlington, VA. This was a project that took me far too long to complete.

Dick Henthorn

23 October 2014

Experience

No one can buy experience; that is something for which only the years can pay.

(William Barclay, The Letter to Titus, p. 288)

Living On Purpose

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life. ... Stick to your purpose. (Abraham Lincoln, letter to Quintin Campbell, 28 Jun 1862)

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The high winds yesterday got under the shingles on the west side of our house and did some damage. I wonder if that is a sign that the entire roof is failing. I guess I'll find out when I get someone to come and take a look this week.

This morning I saw three robins in the front yard.

Melva finished a quilt project. I helped by doing the printing for the label she affixed to the quilt. We took some photos last night. Today she will give it to one of her young female customers.

This morning I located my little yellow sport radio. It's one you can wear on your arm while walking or running. I'm going to listen to it while I'm working at the computer.

Mr. Dickie
20/Feb/2011 08:37

Melva's Charm Quilt

Photo: Mr. Dickie (Melva's Charm Quilt - professionally quilted, blocks exchanged with class members)

• All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not addressing the real problem. (Stephen R. Covey, Daily Reflections For Highly Effective People, 4 August)
• Space Out! Live your own life and allow others their rightful space to live theirs. (after Body, Mind, and Spirit, 3 August)
• You cannont see God, but you can see the results of faith in human lives, changing them from defeat to victory. (Alan L. Roeck, Look To This Day, 30 July)

Last night I learned more about some of the capability of my digital camera. There's a function called the Design Gallery that has features to to enchance the images using the camera itself. There are five categories: apply artistic effects, modify color, add borders, rotate images, and crop images. There are four artistic effects: posterize, soft glow, slimming, and kaleidoscope. There are seven kinds of border: soft edge, inset border, oval, circle, rectangle, rounded rectangle and square. Modified images are saved as new photographs.

The Design Gallery provides a very easy way to change the appearance of the photographs. It's even possible to combine more than one of the effects. I'm impressed that all of this capability came as part of the what the camera can do. I'm looking forward to putting some of the modified photographs on the the Internet.

Mr. Dickie