Something About Nothing ... #12

[schumigirl]

 

[macraven]

Schumi, nice thing about retirement is you can make vacation plans on a whim

Even better, making and booking 2 trips at once is something peeps dream of

Wags, woohoo your team won!

Chuckers tell me how you like the new phone

Mine is not operating correctly now that I am at UO
I have not read up on the 8

How is the phone charging different on the new 8?

Good Sunday morning homies

Leaving the room to do breakfast with the momi-onions very soon

 

[macraven]

Vicki, how much rain are you getting ?

Glad I'm not flying yet

 

[macraven]

Robbie, how about more hhn pics!!!

 

[PoohIsHome]

Morning, all! So exciting reading about all of the goings-on!

We're at 41 days and counting! 6 football games down, 4 to go and so far so good. Other than the usual aches, pains, moans and groans Corey is injury free.

@Chuckers How do you like the new 8+? I'm holding off until I can compare the 8+ and the X side by side until I pull the trigger.

 

[tink1957]

Vicki, how much rain are you getting ?

Glad I'm not flying yet

So far less than 1/2" but expected to be 3" since the worst part is now going to bypass us according to the latest report. We had 3 1/2" rainfall in a normal thunderstorm this summer. I think the constant wind is the only difference and I have to be at work today at 12...wish they would just close down the garden center and tell us to stay home but they will wait until I get to work as usual

Glad you're not flying yet too, when is your last day?

 

[tink1957]

Hi pooh

 

[macraven]

Hey pooh


Vicki i am here to Friday

 

[Lynne G]

Hey Mac, we need pictures of minion breakfast. Good morning.

Eek, need to put do not disturb tag on door.

Okay, that is done.


Ooh, jealous, new phone for Chuckers.

And yay for Schumi plans.

Wahoo for football games recorded here, love the reports of your kids' games.

Glad Tink, that you only got some rain and not flooding.

Have a nice Sunday. May see if my poncho fits in my bag. We have had a 5 o'clock downpour two days in a row. Eh, maybe just my small umbrella.

Later homies.

 

[pattyw]

Anytime someone posts in rhis thread, they are one of our homies

So a big to pattyw

Truly honored !!

Schumi- you rock! Two long trips next year!

 

[Charade67]

Good morning. I slept until almost 10:30 today. I guess I really needed the sleep.

Schumi - I don’t think I have ever started planning a vacation nearly a year out. I guess it helps when you already know what you want to do. I think our next big trip will be summer of 2019 when my daughter graduates from high school. She wants to go to Hollywood.

Chuckers - Please let me know how the camera is on the new phone. The one thing i don’t like about my iPhone is the quality of the pictures when you try to zoom. I hope that has improved.

Pooh - Looking toward you seeing your posts from your trip. I guess you are the next one going and then me?

Tink - Glad the rain isn’t too bad for you.

Pattyw - Welcome.


Guess I should get up and start my day. I have absolutely no motivation right now.

 

[schumigirl]

Yep, Charade....flights are available so we book as soon as we know our dates.......now of course we can go anytime so it’s just a case of picking any day........our hotels have been very kindly booked for us, so we’re sorted


Think I’m the only one who doesn’t want an iPhone..........saw folks lining up in Mall at Millenia a few days and wondered what they were queueing up for.........not an iPhone convert. Happy with my Android.

Been a lazyish day today........watched some tv and did some laundry.......that’s about it. Few things on computer and called my aunt in Long Island.........always good to chat to her.......

Hope your Sunday is a good one.........

 

[Chuckers]

@PoohIsHome and @macraven - I like the phone a lot. I use Kindle on my phone and it's a lot better on this one. It just seems clearer and with the larger screen; I can fit more of the page in the window. I am trying to get used to the new layout of stuff tho. The home button doesn't 'click' like the old one.. there's a setting to simulate a click with a vibrate that can be set to light, med, or strong vibrate. Funny thing, I actually wanted to try Apple pay today.. and I couldn't find it. It used to be just hold the home button and it popped up..now I am getting Siri when I hold the home button.. so it's probably a setting. (edit: I just looked, it is a setting and I have it set to double click the home button when phone is locked.)

I went to set up the Health app on the phone and under sex I had 3! choices.. male, female, other. I thought that was very funny and progressive.

One of my biggest issues is actually with Apple/iTunes. I couldn't download and save all my music from my old phone because I made the playlists/downloaded the songs on my work computer. I had to sync my phone with my work laptop to get the music. I searched the net and found a program ($29 for a yea, $39 for lifetime) that reads the iPhone like a hard drive and allows you to transfer everything on the phone to your computer and iTunes. So now my home computer has the same stuff as my work laptop. I think iTunes should allow you to download from your phone.


@Charade67 The 3 pictures below were with the Iphone. The first one is regular optics. The second is a 5.8 zoom and the third is 10x zoom. Claude Von Fang (the cat) was only about 5 feet away, so I think that's why the 10x zoom is a little blurry.

I'll try again outside with something farther away. The iphone 8+ also has portrait mode, where the main image is sharp and the background is blurred. The + actually has 2 lenses so it can do the portrait mode. Portrait mode has several different lighting effects, like stage light, stage light monochrome, and a few others. It also has panoramic shooting available.

 

[macraven]

Cats!!!!!!!!!


Them

 

[macraven]

Schumi
You forgot to say today is also ironing day

I have no idea what an iron is...
Lol


Last had one ages ago

 

[Charade67]

Awww...cute kitty. Here’s mine.

I don’t think I am ready to give up my traditional camera in favor of the phone camera. I like the phone for quick, close shots, but I love the zoom on my regular camera. Here’s a picture I took last year when we were in NYC. This is the building where they drop the New Year’s Eve ball.

And here is the ball.

 

[Lynne G]

From my 7. Still jealous of yours Chuckers.

Loving the cat pictures. We are dogless right now, and sometimes sad about it. But with our livestyle, a pet is not in the cards yet.

Felt like being more healthy, so at Sweet Tomatoes for dinner. Hot Sunday so far.

 

[Charade67]

Nice pictures Lynne. Did you use any special settings? Whenever I try taking zoomed pictures with my phone they look grainy. Maybe it’s the lighting?
I wish we had a Sweet Tomatoes where I live. I haven’t eaten at one in ages.

 

[Lynne G]

No Charade. Just use my finger to zoom in or out. I have no Sweet Tomatoes anywhere near where I live either. I am full.

Was lucky and smart. Took umbrella in car when went to dinner. Just started to rain when I was 5 minutes leaving from the restaurant, parked car at hotel, used umbrella, and as got in my room, loud thunderstorm with heavy rain. Just missed it. Now get to relax and wait til over. If over in the next hour, may head to Islands for the last hour it is open.



View from my window. It is really coming down. Ooh, nice bright flash of lightning.

 

[macraven]

I thought you were in the parks Lynne
Lol

Getting hungry