OK...
... this exercise has just REMINDED me of WHERE my photos are. I have some 6000 photos from - not sure here- the trip or that particular month. I think I had 6700 photos from the cruise because I recall it was a rediculous number! SO ... whats' with my uncertainty? Well... I have several months of newish photos - plus ALL of my older digital photos stored on this near new external hard drive which IS NOT WORKING ANYMORE! I had a buddy evaluate it and he suggested it should be fine - and it is hopefully just a power supply failure. SO all I have to do is transplant the HD to another enclosure and it should work. If NOT... then I'll be paying BIG BUCKS to salvage the data.
I would get warrenty service but I seem to have misplaced the purchase record - and I never sent in the warrenty card because - who ever heard of a hard drive failing? Like,... the MTBF (mean time between failure) was usually something like 250,000 hours... or like (if I am correct) about 50% chance in 10,440 days... which is about 28.6 years. HOWEVER, I've just learned that my particular manufacturer, Western Digital has recently gained a reputation for having external drives with faulty enclosures/power supplies. I was actually pretty ticked off and now I am reminded that I need to get a new enclosure for the thing. Only the annoying thing is the cost for a new enclosure is almost as much for an entire new drive! I know it is penny ante - but with the cascade for dropping prices on electronics this result is no less annoying. SO - I had been waiting for a sale on an enclosure WITHOUT one of those annoying rebates - but kept missing the ad deals when I got around to going out for the ocassional deal. Once I got one (recently) but missed the annoying Frys' rebate deadline - so I had my spouse return it! I will wait rather then get ripped off by a bait and switch deal on a rebate price. Kno what I mean. And I kno... I should have sent the rebate the day I purchased it. Alas, according to the terms of the rebate - I could only send it in within 14 days of purchase - and I had to get the envelope hand cancelled, delivery receipt, and there had to be a full moon out plus cloudless sunrise - otherwise it would be dishonoured. <chuckles>
So now... for any who happen to read down to this point ... here is YOUR reward. I DO have just under 200 DIS specific photos combined with a few (a handful) of photos from the cruise. And here are some links:
Because some types of links are more fun (imbedded slide show, slide show in a pop up window, manual photo view, or a field of 50 thumbnails where you click on just the images of interest to enlarge... so with these different links come different issues to view (your sysytem may like some and not other links)...
here are the various links to TWO albums ~ The 1st one is of 120 general images, and the 2nd link is to about 50 mostly from Scotts' Pre Cruise meet:
