Chore Day, July 4, 2020: Doing Laundry, Curating 85,000 Pictures, and Watch Movies

I started the day with a 6am walk down to the Nature Center. When I got home I had a kale/banana/chocolate smoothie, then I did the laundry. Doing chores makes me hungry, so I had a lunch of udon with vegetables and soy curls. After eating I completed the first stage of curating 20 years of digital photography. This job has taken about six weekends. All in all there were 85,000 pictures to go through. There were many duplicates resulting from years of making backups to many hard drives. Although I tried some software for removing duplicates, I ended up using the Windows File Explorer. After culling ouf the duplicates I now have a directory with about 4,000 images. Next week I’ll begin selecting images for the picture books I’m making about our family life.

Tonight we’re going to have a little fun watching Independence Day.