Post-processing¹ #7

Navajo Trail, Bryce Canyon National Park, October 7, 2015

1. Image editing to enhance the photo closer to what the eye “saw.” Images in this series are selected within a day or so of being edited and are either posted at the time or scheduled for posting at a later date.d.

We use ads on our blogs over on the side, out of the way.  The ads don’t make us much money, certainly not enough to notice if that little bit of income went away.  It makes us enough to pay for the fees from our internet service provider – the place where our blogs reside, including this one – and a little bit more.

I don’t usually notice ads.  When they have motion and sound, it gets my attention, usually not in a good way.  The ads on our blogs are usually static – no sound, no motion, which is what I prefer.

But the other day, there was this trivago ad… a video ad! Geeeezz…

I turned the sound off immediately. 

I don’t like online audio and video that I’m not in control of.  Even on a news page, I’ll often turn off the video if there is text and read the article rather than watch the video.

I didn’t try to turn the video in the ad off because we’re not supposed to click on the Google ads on our own pages.  That could lead to loss of our Google affiliate account.

Fortunately, this is really rare, so far, for the ads on our blogs.  If it were to happen very often, I would have to change the ad setting, which is something I haven’t done in a while.

I just got a comment on my Haw Creek blog, where I am doing a daily Now & Then series.  The now is a current picture taken the day of the post while the then is a “favorite” photo that I took from some time in the past (at this point a digital image taken sometime after July 2004). Each post title is derived from one word – usually the first word – in the caption for each photo.

The title of the post that was spammed is Gym & Eggs.

The spam message was: “thanks for sharing valuable information, it helped me to gain knowledge regarding gym and egg.”

The two images:

The blog post content was about the gym and historic Forestville, Minnesota, where the egg picture was taken.  No egg “knowledge” provided by the post.

Post-processing¹ #6

Leprechaun (rental) and Born Free Class C Motorhomes in Sunset Point parking lot, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, October 7, 2015.

1. Image editing to enhance the photo closer to what the eye “saw.” Images in this series are selected within a day or so of being edited and are either posted at the time or scheduled for posting at a later date.

Post-processing¹ #5

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument – Elevation 9,520 ft. (2902 m), Utah Highway 12, October 6, 2015, 23 miles south of Torry, Utah. Panorama using iPhone 5.

1. Image editing to enhance the photo closer to what the eye “saw.” Images in this series are selected within a day or so of being edited and are either posted at the time or scheduled for posting at a later date.

This morning, 7 meaningless sentiments in one spam comment!

what a great blog post – it was really amazing – I loved to read this one – thanks for sharing – keep writing – do good – stay blessed.

Nope – not approved… into the spam bucket you go!

Post-processing¹ #4

Escape Rental Campervan, Utah Highway 12 in Cannonville, Utah, October 6, 2015, elevation 5918 ft (1804 m).  Escape Campervans has multiple rental locations in the US, with a new location opening soon in Vancouver, Canada.

1. Image editing to enhance the photo closer to what the eye “saw.” Images in this series are selected within a day or so of being edited and are either posted at the time or scheduled for posting at a later date.

When I went to my most recent dental cleaning, I let the dental technician know that I had some inflammation in my gums on the upper right side.  After she took an X-ray and got the dentist involved, I wasn’t surprised to hear that it was infected and that I needed a root canal.

I’ve had a number of root canal procedures done over the years, enough to know that – contrary to what some people think – they aren’t any more painful than more normal dental procedures. All of my previous root canals had been done by my dentist so I was surprised when he told me that he wanted to refer me to someone else – an endodontist.

I had never heard of endodontics before.  It’s a dental specialty that’s associated with treatment of the “living” part of the tooth, the dental pulp, including root canal therapy.¹

I ended up making 3 trips to the endodontics specialist, Dr. Fulmer, in Conway.  The first was for an assessment, where it was determined that I had 2 teeth that needed root canals. The other trips were for each root canal.

There were some interesting aspects to this experience.

I never realized that teeth can have multiple roots.  Apparently the first tooth that they did had 4 roots that needed to be cleaned out and filled.

For this procedure I was literally “under the microscope.” Dr. Fulmer uses intraoral microscopy.  His microscope actually had two sets of eyepieces, one for him and one for the dental assistant.

Payment was different than what I’m used to.  For most medical, optical and dental visits, we usually only have to pay the patient’s portion, whether it be a co-pay amount or partial payment.  For these endodontics visits, I had to pay in full each time. Fortunately, for the two root canals, reimbursement from the insurance company came fairly quickly.

Both of these root canals were in teeth that already had crowns. Now those two dental crowns have fillings where they were drilled through for the root canal.

1. Root canal – a colloquial term for a dental operation, endodontic therapy, wherein the pulp is cleaned out, the space disinfected and then filled.

Sheep and a well pump windmill from someplace and sometime.

Where and when?

Answers to be provided in 2018.

Happy New Year!!!!!

Update 1/13/2018

Since I didn’t get any comments on this, I’ll just update it on this post rather than publishing it in a new post.

The picture is part of a travel poster for China and the South Manchuria Railway Company during the years when Japan ruled over part of China during the first half of the 20th century.