Friday Night Scanner Lights

For the past few years we (Grandma & The Aunts) have spent Friday night's in scrapbooking endeavors.  This year it was decided we needed to return our focus back to scrapping Mom/Grandma/Grandma Great's many, many vacations instead of each person's pet project.  See, just before her 80th birthday bash we'd gone through pictures and slides, selected a few from each vacation trip to scan and print for a trip scrapbook to display at her big party, but time constraints scuttled most of the progress and a little, but not much, was completed.  Something happened recently (okay, I forget the specifics) and we decided to review all vacation slides in order to add others to print that should also be included on the vacation pages.  (Hope that made sense, it's an oddly structured sentence.)

Well, one thing led to another and for a few weeks it was Friday night at the movies slides.  We saw ALL slides we could find and had a fun time laughing at many, and snoozing at others.  THEN one thing led to another and I decided to catalog all those slides so we could more easily find specific ones. THEN we started scanning those slides so we could get them printed to add to the scrapbook pages for each trip.

Ah, modern technology...has it's limitations.

Here, Janice is trying to configure her new slide scanner (little black box in front of her left hand) to her old laptop.  Christine is trying to configure Mom's old scanner (big beige thing) to Janice's new laptop.  Neither was having any luck.  THEN the light dawned and Mom's old scanner was hooked up to the old laptop -where it functioned perfectly again, just like it did 5 years ago- and the new laptop was configured with a new scanner I'd recently purchased.  Voila!  Success.

Slides and Scanners

Like a well-oiled machine we've kinda worked out a system to scan trays, and trays, and trays of slides. OKay, it's still a work in progress that is progressing very slowly.  We'll need to re-visit our plan. 

** So how many slides did we view?  It took 3 Friday's (or was it four?) and about 3 hours each Friday.  Use the comments section to submit your answer!