About the video tapes, we haven't been doing too much on that lately. One problem was, we were getting way too many and didn't have room to store anymore. Another reason was that my wife leg was messed up and she had to have a hip replacement. She was not able to do the walking. When we were buying the tapes, we went to the swapmeet a found the ones that we wanted to all to our collection. Our collection is over 3000 now and I am going to have to found some way to sell them. I tried to talk my daughter into selling them for us but with her job and all, she was just to busy to mess with them. Now the only thing that we are doing is burning a movie every now and then. The movie that we have, I made an excel file so that we could keep track of them all. I also put them on Microsoft FrontPage. With that program, I could click and any movie and it would take me to the internet site that had the information about the movie. Like the actors and a short clip about what the movie was about.
Here lately we have started back to the gym in hopes of getting my wife's leg back in shape so that she will be able to walk again. Even that we had to put off for a couple weeks because of the flu. Doing a lot better now and should be starting back again. We have been going out to take some photos for the panoramas that I have been making. I found a site that is really nice for putting the panoramas that I have been making. The name of the site is; Panoye.com. The people at that site are really friendly and helpful. So far I have 13 on that site and am looking forward to putting on many more. Here in southern California, there isn't many days where a person can take really good photos because of the smog that we have in this area. We have a wind that blows every now and then that clears out the smog and really makes for good picture taking. I did find one thing, when it is that clear, I have problems with sunspots on my photos. I had to take the pictures into Windows Paint to edit them and remove the spots. Once I did that, my panoramas were really coming out good. The camera that I am using, a piece of junk that I found at the swapmeet in a box of junk. I gave the guy $10 for it. It is a Fujifilm Finepix 2650. I had to buy the memory for it before I could use it. I had it now for maybe a year and a half. I have bought several memory chips for it. We took it with us this last year when we went on vacation. I had probably 100 or so pictures that we took on that trip. We will be going on vacation again the last part of May. We go back to Kansas where we have a family reunion and also at that time they have the class reunion for the school that I went to when I lived back there. Me and my family came to California when I was 16 or there about. I lived with my uncle for the first year or two. He was a brick layer and I helped him. He layed the brick and I did all the work. LOL. Anyway, the way it went, he would lay up 1000 brick by noon at 6 cents each. I was getting the minimim wage at that time what was 35 cent per hour. He would pay me for the whole day and we both took off at noon. I spent most of my time back in those days in the swiming pool. Later, I went to work for the contractor that he was working for at the same wage of course. That contractor was a pain in the fanny. Once payday rolled around, he would try to talk us out of the money that we had coming. He was a cement contractor and we poured a lot of cement. Doing this we ended up having the cement all over us. We didn't bother with a bath, we just went down to that swiming pool.
I was out with the contractor one day and we were hauling a load of sand to a person that had ordered it. The boss had a problem, he would fall a sleep for no reason. I didn't have a drivers licence and I didn't know how to drive. He stop the truck and said drive and I did. After this, I got a licence and was the main driver for hauling the sand and other type of materials. I worked for several years for him. His kid got old enough to take over and I got layed off. While I was working for him, we worked in this cemetery pouring the curbs and gutters. I was also contracted out to them for other work that they needed done.
I liked working there. Stayed a lot cleaner and the pay was a lot better. I went to work there and was off 2 years to go in the service. After I got out, I went back to work for them. The name of the cemetery is Crestlawn Memorial Park in Riverside, California. I spent 20 years there doing all of the landscapeing. I had a D8 dozer and a grader with a scraper that I used. I also learned to run the backhoe. Before I left there, I was the assistant superindent plus, I was the superindent of one of the other cemetery that the company had at Thousand Oaks. One of the big bosses that was over one of the other cemeteries in Bloomington, California, offered me a job of the superindent of that cemetery, Green Acres Memorial Park. With that job, I was offered a new truck every 5 years, a house to live and a salary. I worked there 26 year until one day our new general manager decided that we should start paying rent. I said that that wasn't the agreement that we had. We had bought a trailer about 3 months before. We moved in to a trailer park where we are living now. Once I turned 65 I gave them my 2 weeks notice. Now I am 72 and still living in the little trailer that we bought and loving it. Chuck of Chuck&Eddy Inc.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
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