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

[goofyforlife]

Oh, my . . . these door magnets are rather easy to create, aren't they?

God help me. I'm going to have to make a few.

I also found out how to do names and made one for my door as well.

oh do share......

Shouldn't you be at a service right now or something?

~K

 

[captaincrash]

 

[pyramid2000]

OMG!!

 

[dahuffy]

I got it at Target. I don't know if you have a Target by you or not though. Maybe WalMart if you have that or maybe your food store?

We have all of the above and haven't seen it anywhere. Maybe I just live in the wrong part of town!

 

[bellelinus]

LaTanya, I am so, so sorry to hear about your loss, and that you and Tyreak will not be on this cruise . . . we will have to get together in September, OK? Love to you.

Hi everyone, I'm checking in from Huntington Beach, CA -- the flight was super smooth yesterday and we actually got in about half an hour early. All the luggage arrived, and we took a taxi to the Hyatt here to relax at the beach until we switch to DL on Tuesday. Hope all of you are well and see you this time next week!

 

[goofyforlife]

ITA.....

After yesterday's fly across the handlebars, June has several scrapes and bruises to show for her spill.

She decided that she wasn't going to chance it and will stay off the bike until after the TOAL!!

Because of your stories the last couple of weeks along with Johanna's spill I have actually been afraid of biking this last week.

See and you people laugh at me for going to spinning class .... Much safer IMHO...

BTW If anyone wants to join me on-board...let me know and i will bring my spare gel-seat...It'll save your Add....

Took me a minute to figure out why there were no quote buttons on the other thread...

been there done that....

Oh i couldn't ask you to do that- but I'd love to meet up with you all!
When are you going to DL and what days do you plan to be there? Where are you staying at?

We'll be shacked up at the Hojo from Thursday afternoon.

Trying to swing DL for three days...That way we can go at a slower pace...



DD has had some bouts with what may be either heat induced or exercise induced asthma.... SO now i'm worried about draggin her around so much.

Hey we could leave our dd's on a park bench together...

Well I have found the suitcases

Well now i feel better.... Mine have been out for three days now...

 

[dahuffy]

When you take an underwater photograph, they usually come out all blue and washed out as the red light component gets absorbed once you get down more that 5 feet.

There's a 14 step process in Photoshop which fixes the colors back to what they should be.

Before:

After:

But doing this by hand for every phograph is time consuming. So PS can remember the sequence of commands used to fix the photos, then replay them for each pic you want done. You can then then have PS run this remembered sequence on a whole folder of pics, saving a whole bunch of time for DIS

Andy

I have a great idea Andy....I'll just send you my pictures and you can fix them for me!!

 

[renegade7]

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

That is on my list to do as well on Castaway between my stingray adventure and my massage.

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 Condolences and a prayer said for you. Yes that is always why I get the insurance, because you just never know what is going to happen. Thankfully have not had to use it yet.

 

[dahuffy]

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

Cute!!!!!

 

[dahuffy]

Don't worry....you're not alone. All my clothes are folded....and shoved in an Old Navy shopping bag. I'm ready to go???

I like your choice of luggage....very thrifty!!

 

[JoiseyMom]

I can't remember who was asking about the guitar hero mickey ears magnet on thread 13.
If you still need it, pm me. I saved it

Thanks, it was me, but dahuffy pm'd it to me already. Thanks guys!!

 

[m&m's mom]

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

Ohh! I am so sorry, for the loss of your Father and that you will not be on the trip. I will keep you and your family in my prayers.
I just bought insurance 2 days ago.

DD has had some bouts with what may be either heat induced or exercise induced asthma.... SO now i'm worried about draggin her around so much.

Hey we could leave our dd's on a park bench together...

Did you tell her she is going yet? Was/is she excited?

 

[smeecanada]

Found this on another thread from a trip last week ~ thought BIP? and a few others would be interested.

We arrived at the waiting taxis and tried to bargain for a price to take us to Sea Life Park. Previous trip reports had said they paid $40 to get there, so when I negotiated down to $28 I thought I did a pretty good job. We were taken to a really small car for the 4 of us and we proceded to wedge ourselves in. The drive was only 15 minutes, not the 30 minutes we had been told. As we were leaving, I asked the guy at the photo counter how much a taxi back should cost, he said no more than $15, which meant we had been charged double on the way over! He asked me if I remembered the cab number or anything and of course I didn't. He told us that he could report them for double charging us if we knew the information. When we got the cab on the way back, he said $20, and I said they told me inside $15 and he said ok. For future cruisers, the cost should only be $15.

Going into Sea Life Park, we noticed it was owned by Dolphin Discovery, the same people who owned the park where we did our Dolphin excursion in Cozumel last year. We checked in and were told where the lockers and bathrooms were and where to meet for the excursion. We were also told that all the water slides were reopened! The kids were pleased. When we found the lockers they were in the bathrooms, so

 

[renegade7]

Morning all, my goal was to be packed by Saturday, well guess what that did not happen. I did however iron my shorts/pants. I still have a load of laundry to do on Tuesday/Wednesday. My cat is having anxiety now that I have started packing. He is throwing up fur balls everywhere. Funny how they know when you are leaving and I am having neighbors look after him rather than boarding him. Oh well just finished breakfast, watching tennis at the Olympics, but need to get up and start ironing my tops to make outfits and see where I am. I am heading off to tan at 10 am and then my girlfriend is coming up for my massage (hence why I wanted to be packed by Saturday). Catch you all later!

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

LaTanya, I am so, so sorry to hear about your loss, and that you and Tyreak will not be on this cruise . . . we will have to get together in September, OK? Love to you.

Hi everyone, I'm checking in from Huntington Beach, CA -- the flight was super smooth yesterday and we actually got in about half an hour early. All the luggage arrived, and we took a taxi to the Hyatt here to relax at the beach until we switch to DL on Tuesday. Hope all of you are well and see you this time next week!

Glad you had a safe trip.

 

[captaincrash]

Tanya,
I am sorry for your loss.

Crash,
Thank you for the very detailed post!! I am considering going to a mac computer in the not so distant future and I am not sure if I could edit movies and such as easily with the little dvds. However, for some reason I feel more secure with that kind of media. Hard drives and sd cards can crash or get erased easily, right? The way I make decisions, I am not sure I can make this one by Friday...

If you're on the cusp of equipment / hardware upgrade/update.... if you're planning on having decent POWeR.... and you have time to learn/practice editing... then the way to go seems to be the HARD DRIVE camcorder. If you want operational resilancy... consider a solid state media based camcorder.

I've heard that MACs are tremendous with their video handling capabilities. Maybe you should sit down in one of those Mac stores to pick the brains of customers looking over thier video camera displays - and once you're comfortable with the "basic" core issues - you can challenge an Apple sales "expert" in this department to "convince you" on buying a Mac with an eye for movie editing.

If you want minimal OR zero editing simplicity - then my DVD camcorder approach is good.

CORRECTION.....

It seems the HDD camcorders may have issues - especially if they are limited to shooting in MPEG-2... http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=287431 .... so it seems you might want to shoot in miniDV tape!!! http://www.macworld.com/article/133790/2008/06/camcorder.html

BTW... another thought is .... are you EVER going to want your footage to be of a HIGH DEFINITION quality? http://ask.metafilter.com/79894/HD-Camcorder-importing-problems-on-a-Mac I deliberately passed on this due to the higher storage / power demand issues predicted. Plus the cost was beyond my artifically imposed budget - which in turn was influenced by my cynical attuide towards the whole thing!

I'm just a PEANUT GALLERY CRITIC.... and you'll be better off talking to someone whos' shooting nd editing video succesfully. Having said that.... this was still an issue I felt like "spouting" over!

IF I were not already eye-ball deep committed to digital still photograly I MIGHT consider the digital hard drive camcorder. ALAS, I'm married to my still format... for LIFE. So I just took a tangental "walk on the wild side" approach to movie making.

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Well now i feel better.... Mine have been out for three days now...

I keep looking at my empty suitcases whilst watching the Olympics but there not filling up, something is very wrong.

 

[dahuffy]

Laura,
Thank God she doesn't weigh more!

Debi

.........Yet!

 

[AndyR]

I have a great idea Andy....I'll just send you my pictures and you can fix them for me!!

No problem.

Andy

 

[JoiseyMom]

Oh i couldn't ask you to do that- but I'd love to meet up with you all!
When are you going to DL and what days do you plan to be there? Where are you staying at? Details, I need details! LOL I'm gonna be missing some ADULT interaction next week- let me tell you... must..... find.......adult...... to..... talk.......to. Either I meet up with you or someone else- or I'm gonna be driving other adults nuts in the lines- just talking away with them like I know them or something.

We check into HoJo's sometime Friday night and are doing DL Commando on Saturday and will be on the Pirate bus SUnday morning. Now where can I hide that coffee cup .