8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC #14

[mjy]

Good Morning​

Have a Good Sunday​

Next Sunday is​

Cruise day​

One week to go​

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I'm not going to make it to my flight on Wednesday morning. I'm just too excited. I'm thinking that I'll just start walking today!

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

I'm not going to make it to my flight on Wednesday morning. I'm just too excited. I'm thinking that I'll just start walking today!

Get going then!!!

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

WELL get a move on! You're not leaving much later than us and we're packed. (well except for a few things we're still USING and can't pack yet- like hair flat iron, camera, etc.)

Get on it! LOL

Well I have found the suitcases

 

[MrsScooby]

ITA.....

After yesterday's fly across the handlebars, June has several scrapes and bruises to show for her spill. But she was a trooper and today we went for a long bike ride. Near the end of the ride, she tried to avoid a lady and her dog and almost ended up in a stream. Less than a minute later, she almost got hit by a Suburban

After giving the driver a piece of her mind, she was pretty shaken up and in tears riding home. She decided that she wasn't going to chance it and will stay off the bike until after the TOAL!!

Christopher,
We plan to go for a bike ride on Castaway Cay. June (and anyone else) is welcome to join us
No suburbans, no streams, no dogs--just a flat path..should be safe
I think Roger and family was considering this also.
Should be fun

 

[MrsScooby]

What do you guys think of this? It's one of the door signs that I made....

Very cool
My DS14 and I were struggling with door signs last night. Forgot how to do them

We managed to put some together, but none as nice as yours

 

[AndyR]

I'm not going to make it to my flight on Wednesday morning. I'm just too excited. I'm thinking that I'll just start walking today!

I know how you feel and we don't leave until Saturday. For some reason I woke up @ 4am today........can we go now please.

Andy

 

[Pluto 2]

well i have a lot to do today. leave tomorrow morning.glad we are off thread number 13. now i have notice this is my 1300 post if i would of known that i would of left it at 1299 until i got home in sep. can i get to 1400 before i leave tomorrow morning,no i have a lot to do.

 

[Joy2theWorld]

Anyone have any recommendations for a small video camera? I was in Best Buy yesterday and a little overwhelmed with the choices. I didn't know if the mini dvd ones were better, the ones with the built in hard drive or the ones with the sd cards. I'm considering this purchase instead of a new camera.
Thanks!

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

well i have a lot to do today. leave tomorrow morning.glad we are off thread number 13. now i have notice this is my 1300 post if i would of known that i would of left it at 1299 until i got home in sep. can i get to 1400 before i leave tomorrow morning,no i have a lot to do.

Congrats on 1300! Have a good flight.

 

[disneyjunkie]

If there is anyone who doesn't have trip insurance, please get it.

My step mother and her daughter called yesterday morning to tell us my father died. I asked when they were planning to have the funeral and they said Friday. I got a call later saying the family has decided to have the funeral on SUNDAY instead.

So I had to cancel. I'll get a refund. DCL refunded half yesterday and I have to turn in calm forms to the insurance company for the balance.

Since I didn't book airfare with DCL, I may be out of that expense.

Is there anyone here who hasn't purchased DL park passes yet? I have two of the three day Southern California passes. If someone needs them, they are yours (no charge). They expire on the 30. If I don't give them way, they will be wasted.

If anyone is interested, PM me and I'll overnight them before we head to South Carolina on Tuesday.

If no one here needs them, I'll try to give them away on DL board when I return.

Sorry to be a downer in the mist of all the excitement.


Enjoy your TOAL and please take/post plenty of pictures.

Love ya Tanya

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

If there is anyone who doesn't have trip insurance, please get it.

My step mother and her daughter called yesterday morning to tell us my father died. I asked when they were planning to have the funeral and they said Friday. I got a call later saying the family has decided to have the funeral on SUNDAY instead.

So I had to cancel. I'll get a refund. DCL refunded half yesterday and I have to turn in calm forms to the insurance company for the balance.

Since I didn't book airfare with DCL, I may be out of that expense.

Is there anyone here who hasn't purchased DL park passes yet? I have two of the three day Southern California passes. If someone needs them, they are yours (no charge). They expire on the 30. If I don't give them way, they will be wasted.

If anyone is interested, PM me and I'll overnight them before we head to South Carolina on Tuesday.

If no one here needs them, I'll try to give them away on DL board when I return.

Sorry to be a downer in the mist of all the excitement.


Enjoy your TOAL and please take/post plenty of pictures.

Love ya Tanya

I am so sorry, please accept my condolences.

 

[Pluto 2]

If there is anyone who doesn't have trip insurance, please get it.

My step mother and her daughter called yesterday morning to tell us my father died. I asked when they were planning to have the funeral and they said Friday. I got a call later saying the family has decided to have the funeral on SUNDAY instead.

So I had to cancel. I'll get a refund. DCL refunded half yesterday and I have to turn in calm forms to the insurance company for the balance.

Since I didn't book airfare with DCL, I may be out of that expense.

Is there anyone here who hasn't purchased DL park passes yet? I have two of the three day Southern California passes. If someone needs them, they are yours (no charge). They expire on the 30. If I don't give them way, they will be wasted.

If anyone is interested, PM me and I'll overnight them before we head to South Carolina on Tuesday.

If no one here needs them, I'll try to give them away on DL board when I return.

Sorry to be a downer in the mist of all the excitement.


Enjoy your TOAL and please take/post plenty of pictures.

Love ya Tanya

so very sorry

 

[RobNJ]

Tanya, So sorry to hear of your loss.

 

[pyramid2000]

If there is anyone who doesn't have trip insurance, please get it.

My step mother and her daughter called yesterday morning to tell us my father died. I asked when they were planning to have the funeral and they said Friday. I got a call later saying the family has decided to have the funeral on SUNDAY instead.

So I had to cancel. I'll get a refund. DCL refunded half yesterday and I have to turn in calm forms to the insurance company for the balance.

Since I didn't book airfare with DCL, I may be out of that expense.

Is there anyone here who hasn't purchased DL park passes yet? I have two of the three day Southern California passes. If someone needs them, they are yours (no charge). They expire on the 30. If I don't give them way, they will be wasted.

If anyone is interested, PM me and I'll overnight them before we head to South Carolina on Tuesday.

If no one here needs them, I'll try to give them away on DL board when I return.

Sorry to be a downer in the mist of all the excitement.


Enjoy your TOAL and please take/post plenty of pictures.

Love ya Tanya

I am so sorry to hear of your loss. We will be thinking of you.

 

[winotracy]

If there is anyone who doesn't have trip insurance, please get it.

My step mother and her daughter called yesterday morning to tell us my father died. I asked when they were planning to have the funeral and they said Friday. I got a call later saying the family has decided to have the funeral on SUNDAY instead.

Love ya Tanya

Tanya,

I'm so sorry to hear this.

Tracy

 

[tigger24]

If there is anyone who doesn't have trip insurance, please get it.

My step mother and her daughter called yesterday morning to tell us my father died. I asked when they were planning to have the funeral and they said Friday. I got a call later saying the family has decided to have the funeral on SUNDAY instead.

So I had to cancel. I'll get a refund. DCL refunded half yesterday and I have to turn in calm forms to the insurance company for the balance.

Since I didn't book airfare with DCL, I may be out of that expense.

Is there anyone here who hasn't purchased DL park passes yet? I have two of the three day Southern California passes. If someone needs them, they are yours (no charge). They expire on the 30. If I don't give them way, they will be wasted.

If anyone is interested, PM me and I'll overnight them before we head to South Carolina on Tuesday.

If no one here needs them, I'll try to give them away on DL board when I return.

Sorry to be a downer in the mist of all the excitement.


Enjoy your TOAL and please take/post plenty of pictures.

Love ya Tanya

We are so sorry for your loss, you are in our prayers.

 

[captaincrash]

What do you guys think of this? It's one of the door signs that I made....

Wow.... what a beautifully creative sign! My door signs will have nothing as creative... ! By the looks of it - you'll be changing your door signs as we progress?

Anyone have any recommendations for a small video camera? I was in Best Buy yesterday and a little overwhelmed with the choices. I didn't know if the mini dvd ones were better, the ones with the built in hard drive or the ones with the sd cards. I'm considering this purchase instead of a new camera.
Thanks!

Warning.... L-O-N-G story comin'....

I recently bought a fairly basic Sony Mini-DVD camcorder (sony dcr-dvd108) with a cynical attitude ... I held that video footage had marginal utility to us - especially given that I concentrate on digital STILL photography ... which is why I took the lowest possible cost approach to this ... and I finally found it on clearance for a pittance at BEST BUY ... however it was missing it's battery, charger and the minor accessories.

You see, for years I've shot only still images and movie clips off the little digicams (80,000 shot in the past 8 years) ... and in recent months my DSS (Dear Sweet Spouse) has been grumbling about how we have NO high resolution movie clips or footage of the kids in recent years. My reply was ... well, we've HAD camcorders however, when each camera eventually broke - we ended up with a collection of tapes (VHS, mini-VHS, and now we had dozens of these miniature Hi-8 sized tapes if I'm not mistaken - all UNVIEWABLE without my original camera working. Now, I've got to PAY someone something like $25 to convert each to DVD... or I have to FIND someone with a working camera in each tape size so I can somehow PLAY each tape to somehow TRANSFER each to a current viewable format ... like DVD. This would cost a mint (money and or time) to convert several dozen tapes with a resultant total cost that is simply insulting IMO ... which raises the question ... that the NEXT camcorder had better output to a versetile format that might side step the long-term viewability issue.

Well, we simplisticly settled upon the idea that a DVD burning camcorder seems to have the greatest utility now - as I had no great love for the idea of a 20GB hard drive camcorder outputting through firewire (for which I have NO port on my computers!). I could just see it now... I'd have to buy new higher powered computers plus ... in short order I'd have a 1 terabyte deep storage drive with 49 folders of 20GB size (980GB of the 1000GB capacity occupied).... covering just 49 occassions which I had filmed to capacity on the camcorder and I'd be rubbing the tip of chin in bemused reflection - now that I NEED another storage drive ... should I now buy that new cheaper 2 or pricey 5+ TB drive! Arrrgh! The storage capacity requirements with those things left me rejecting the idea out of hand without much reflection! This is in spite of the sales man commenting "Oh, but you'll discard all the footage you don't want pretty easily - so the final files sizes won't be that large".... OK... fine for HIM to say so... but I have video tapes which I've NEVER reviewed.... but instead I stored them for later viewing - not fully realizing they would become old old memories for maybe someone else once the original camcorder broke - which they all eventually did. SO ... many / mosty of my video footage would ultimately be UNEDITED - most likely.

SO .... we choose DVDRW in spite of the formats' annoying limitations. I've bought 50 discs off ebay and ended up spending (vaguely recalled) $17 for 50 discs... rated for 30 minutes however I tend to get only 19-24 minutes capacity as reported by the camera. I think Sony has designed in niggly defenses against folks like me using NON-sony DVD media and batteries. Which is smart of them - but annoying to a huge extent. It smacks of the tactics they employed when they started selling music CDs with INTENSE encryption... and anti-sharing self loading software - designed to shut down those creative pirates who were ripping music to their computers to share.... that is to share among MORE than their 2 or 3 personal MP3 devices... rather these few pirates were retransmitting the files among 100s if not 1000s of others ... often for FREE.

SO ... given the Sony DVD media is far more expensive... I still would choose again to go generic - as even with the reduced capacity rating I save tons. As for the battery incompatibility - I've found a go-around with the generic manfg supplied auxillary power supply cable (see image below). The cable itself is a bit of an annoyance ... but I bought a battery for $8 and another for $20 INSTEAD of buying the Sony branded battery for $90 with thier slightly lower power rating!. So yeah... this alone saved me $150... which is about what I paid for the camera. By my reckoning I saved near $350 with my clearance camera + 2 generic bateries ... and I saved another $150 with my generic DVDRW media. The Sony DVDR seem to sell cheapest on PRICE GRABBER for $17 on a 5 pack of Sony discs.... and I paid $17 for 50 TDK discs. Thats' approximately 10x the number of discs for the same price... or $170 of Sony disks for $17... saving $153.... and I just rounded it down for simplicity. http://cameras.pricegrabber.com/camcorder-video-media/m/18382095/

All told ... the way I approached this... I got the Camera, 2 hi-cap bateries, the charger + 50 discs of media with an average of 70-75% of rated capacity for $500 (not counting $40 sales tax saved!) less than if I bought brand new / factory sealed / all branded Sony stuff. This amounts to 71.4% savings.... mostly magnified with my 90% media savings. Which IMO is most important ... as I intend to buy MORE media once I burn throgh these first 50 discs. Of whcih I am now upon my 9th disc. One was already damaged - and rendered unreadable thorugh an accident while it was "finalizng" and vulnerable.

I am pleased to say, the most interesting DVD disc I've shot so far was recent the dental appointment of my daughters TOOTH extraction... something I dare NOT show her until shes' much older! We stored this DVD with the actual tooth extracted - and given over by the "tooth fairy"!!! This alone makes having had the DVD camcorder ... priceless. Of course, without the camcorder I would have shot lower resolution digicam footage at 340x240 ... or maybe VGA (640x480).

So would I recommend another "basic" DVD camcorder? For MY level of sophistication - and for my simple-minded approach - this is perfectly acceptable. Would I buy new? Well... yes. Knowing what I know now... buying new would be just fine .... however, I would take the savings with media that's 90% less costly and only suffers a SONY induced 25% reduction in recording capacity.

Then again... maybe there is NO reduction in capacity... MAYBE I can shoot in a lower quality mode and gain the full 30 minutes of recording time??? I vaguely recall seeing a couple options for image quality inthe menus... but I'm not sure because I'm the kind of guy who rarely reads the manual. It's more fun for me to experiment for a few weeks or months BEFORE I break down and read the manual to look up doing something I couldn't otherwise figure out! < wink >

well i have a lot to do today. leave tomorrow morning.glad we are off thread number 13. now i have notice this is my 1300 post if i would of known that i would of left it at 1299 until i got home in sep. can i get to 1400 before i leave tomorrow morning,no i have a lot to do.

 

[mtt-swd]

If there is anyone who doesn't have trip insurance, please get it.

My step mother and her daughter called yesterday morning to tell us my father died. I asked when they were planning to have the funeral and they said Friday. I got a call later saying the family has decided to have the funeral on SUNDAY instead.

So I had to cancel. I'll get a refund. DCL refunded half yesterday and I have to turn in calm forms to the insurance company for the balance.

Since I didn't book airfare with DCL, I may be out of that expense.

Is there anyone here who hasn't purchased DL park passes yet? I have two of the three day Southern California passes. If someone needs them, they are yours (no charge). They expire on the 30. If I don't give them way, they will be wasted.

If anyone is interested, PM me and I'll overnight them before we head to South Carolina on Tuesday.

If no one here needs them, I'll try to give them away on DL board when I return.

Sorry to be a downer in the mist of all the excitement.


Enjoy your TOAL and please take/post plenty of pictures.

Love ya Tanya

So sorry for your loss.

 

[captaincrash]

If there is anyone who doesn't have trip insurance, please get it.

My step mother and her daughter called yesterday morning to tell us my father died. I asked when they were planning to have the funeral and they said Friday. I got a call later saying the family has decided to have the funeral on SUNDAY instead.

So I had to cancel. I'll get a refund. DCL refunded half yesterday and I have to turn in calm forms to the insurance company for the balance.

Since I didn't book airfare with DCL, I may be out of that expense.

Is there anyone here who hasn't purchased DL park passes yet? I have two of the three day Southern California passes. If someone needs them, they are yours (no charge). They expire on the 30. If I don't give them way, they will be wasted.

If anyone is interested, PM me and I'll overnight them before we head to South Carolina on Tuesday.

If no one here needs them, I'll try to give them away on DL board when I return.

Sorry to be a downer in the mist of all the excitement.

Enjoy your TOAL and please take/post plenty of pictures.

Love ya Tanya

OMG...

May I offer our heart-felt sympathy and condolances Tanya...

 

[DisneyMom13]

OK so I walked the furr kids and on the way back, Isis the diva, goes to smell something in the grass. Just about freaks - literally jumps 3 ft in the air - and turns in mid-air and runs back - her tail goes completely between her back legs and she starts shaking. It was the freakiest thing. I'm not sure what she smelled but it definitely freaked her out. She about yanked my shoulder out of the socket. It scared me because she was shaking and breathing hard like she just ran a marathon.

Not sure what she smelled as I could not get her to go back. In fact, I had to cross the street and she was about crying to have Chloe come over. Steve took Chloe over to see if she smelled anything and that dog lived up to her reputation - all looks and no brain. She was normal. Remember, Isis was the dog throwing herself at the ground the whole day before the earthquake. I call her my sensitive one. It took about 3 blocks before she was able to walk "normally" and her tail to come out from between her legs. This is what freaked me out the most. This dog's tail is ALWAYS out on walks. But this freaked me. Anyone have any ideas. She's normal now - laying down - she walked for 55 minutes. But I am definitely going to have to watch her tonight to see if she has nightmares. Her poor chest was heaving like someone had beat her and her eyes got that wild look to them - whatever she smelled scared the living daylights out of her.

It would be funny if I hadn't had my left shoulder almost yanked out of me. Of course, had that happened, I would have laughed my behind off.

Laura,

Our dog (just about a year old now) Bleu freaks out when she sees bicycles or baby carriages. She is a lab mix and only weighs about 44 lbs, but she will practically drag me home if she encounters one of those. Thank God she doesn't weigh more!

Debi