Sorting

I have begun the monumental task of sorting and archiving the over 10,000 photos that I have taken in the past year. Last week, I purchased a 1TB WD External Storage Drive, and I have been using the book "Digital Asset Management" by Peter Krogh.( ISBN-10: 0-596-10018-3 )

After deciding on a directory structure, the next step is breaking the existing folders into ~4GB "buckets" for easy archiving to DVD-R. By far the worst part is going to be going through each one and deciding "Keep or Toss", and adding tags for ease of location later. Any bets as to exactly how many pictures I have taken of Molly since August of 2008?

In flight thoughts

I discovered a fun way to confuse "Tom", my gps. Turn him on at 34000 feet going 577 mph. Oh yeah. The starboard engine looks loose. Feeling a bit like shatner in that tz episode. I actually had to deal with a little bout of anxiety. My mind suddenly decided that I has been in this can long enough. Now the current order of songs on the iPod: amazing grace followed by Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam… and we are hitting turbulence. We are over Ohio and should be starting our descent as it is 5:55 local and we are scheduled to land at 6:15 or so.

Travel

First off… never take an ambien before an early flight, not even Half of one. I had planned to get up at 2:30 am. My flight was at 7:00 so I figured that would give me lots of time. You know the saying about the best laid plans… I overslept … by two hours. I managed to get out of the house in an amazing 15 minutes. Yes... Dressed and pilled but no coffee or food.
As I said, my flight was at 7:00 with boarding at 6:40. I got on to the courtesy shuttle from parking at 5:54. Smartly I had taken advantage of United's advanced check-in and baggage check, so I dropped my bags with the skycaps and headed for the cattle chute called "security". Made it through with no issues (phew) and to my gate at get this … 6:34! Alas, no time for the restroom or coffee.