Sunday, September 3, 2000

As you can see, I’ve been tinkering a bit more with this site as well as the statistics stuff. The javascript is really cool, but I’ve been striving to stay as simple as possible. By positioning the mouse over any of the links, the associated information will be displayed in a pop-up box. This is yet another attempt at oversimplifying my pages. I may be taking this a bit too far now that I’m not even using javascript but who knows, I may go back to it in time. I have also created a header template in my code so that adding another entry is quite easy- just cut, paste and edit!

Yesterday, Logan and I met up with my brother and his son, Brandon so that we could go to the air show. The heat made the show almost unbearable! As usual the Blue Angels were really amazing. Before the airshow, we walked around the static display and looked at all the aircraft on display. There was an old B-17 that was open for a walkthrough (for a small donation) so I went through with Logan and Brandon. I was able to take some very good shots of the cockpit and the inide of the bomb bay (with bombs intact) and related the story of my Uncle Ken (he was a co-pilot during WWII) and how he was forced to stand on the tiny catwalk and physically kick the bombs out of the plane over Berlin when the release lines had frozen. I was very excited to see how the pictures turned out. A bit later I checked to see how many shots I still had left on the current role and was suprised to see that I was only on picteru number sixteen. Wait a minute, wasn’t that the same number I was on when I grabbed the camera this morning??? Oh geez! Would you believe it? There was no bloody film in the thing!!! (I’m still mad about this) I only gave the camera ( a Pentax P30T, by the way) a cursory glance that morning and simply noted that the film advance was on number sixteen, so obviously, I still had some film left, right? Heh. Oh well. I did manage to shoot off four roles anyway- I may post some of the pictures eventually.

John and Anne stopped by to pick up their new kittens (Gizmo and Gonzo). That’s the last of the foster kids. I am very happy to see them both going to the same home. I know that they will be well cared for.