My first (large) batch of Picasa uploads have completed. It took about 8 days and I now have used up 46.2GB of my google storage. I have many videos that I am working on uploading to YouTube, a very slow process. I also have another hard drive full of my older photos, which I am sure will prove to again being a very long upload session.
Back when this was filmed, the idea of “ultra” high-speed Internet at home still felt like something out of the future. In this short report I take a look at the new technology that was finally bringing seriously fast connections into everyday households, a big deal for someone like me, who has been around Internet…
Update for 2026: Pansies has closed — it’s now “The Garden” Since I first wrote this back in 2012, Pansies Nursery has closed. The good news for the neighborhood is that the spot at 833 East Cecil Street is once again a garden center: new owners now run it as The Garden, a nursery and…
“Gir is a 1-year-old Shorkie (Shih Tzu/Yorkshire Terrier mix). He is very good with other dogs and cats. He plays outside with our Chihuahua Chloe. They go for car rides together and long walks. He sleeps in my lap with Chloe curled up next to him. He loves meeting new friends.” Gir the Shorkie is…
She is very protective of her toys. If you should pass her toy box she will leap on top of it to keep your hands off. Might I add, 99% of it is not even hers — she steals from the cat and my grandkids’ bath toys. Got to love her. UNIQUE lives up to…
“He is a little Chorkie who just loves to be held and loved on. He has made our family so happy and makes us laugh every day. He loves to eat chicken and steak, as well as the cat’s food. He doesn’t really like our cat or the guinea pig we just got for Christmas….
I take a lot of photos around the Fox Valley. Parks and the lakefront, the river when the water is low, downtown Appleton at night, a deer at the 1000 Islands center that held still just long enough. I have been posting them here for years. This week I turned them into a game. Where…