uncommonly feeble and random thoughts

This post coincides with the observance of the annual International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust by the United Nations General Assembly, January 27. In 1982 Linda and I toured Europe with a rental car and a tent: We got the tent from best man, best friend, all-around good guy Gary Hobbs. The car's plate started with three letters so we called it that, Een. Ford Fiesta. This was a memorable campsite, as most campgrounds were WAY overcrowded... your neighbors' tent stakes were driven in next to your tent, and yours next to their tent. Cheek by jowl, indeed. But, that's another blog entry. This is about our visit to the infamous concentration camp. I knew I had an amazing slide from our tour there, and so I unearthed the slides (no small feat) and then rented a macro lens so I could produce high-quality copies of the slides. The shot above is not one of those... it's just a shot with my phone camera with a bit of editing. Here's the s...

 I ran into an issue with folks not being able to view a Dropbox video link, 42 MB. So I brought the video into Snagit and chopped it from two minutes in length to thirty seconds. That made it 48.5 MB. Whaaaat???? So anyway, I sent that link out via email, and Google did that just fine, but now I'm wondering if this might be a better solution, the blog option.  Here's the short version: And now, having posted it, it works. Somehow it gets turned into a YouTube video, and I'll have to remember to let folks know they can make it full screen. Sheesh. What a journey. The original intent was to show friends who've moved from the cold what they're missing.