Photos 2006
I found photos I had taken back in 2006, showing my late wife in vibrant health and alive. It sent a jolt through my heart to see that. Intense pain. But I cannot share these photos. I am not ready to do that yet.
The photos were stored on a CD-ROM I burned back in 2006. I bought an external DVD RW drive, and it could read it - after 14 years!
I also found old webex recordings with customers from 2006. So I downloaded a webex player, and opened a file. It worked. I was in shock. Here I was, as recorded, moving a mouse around 14 years ago. Windows XP and Server 2000/2003 were all the rage back then.
Out of curiosity, I watched a few of the webex videos. They were neat. I can remember doing this stuff.
And then I found my ancient work e-mail archive from 2005/2006. It was incredible. Old emails to developers in Russia. Messages to customers and co-workers.
I found a few that were interesting, because I forgot. There was an email from me mentioning that George had a stroke in June 2005, and since then had mental decline. Then I found he was rejected for workers compensation, so there was a letter I had help my wife write to the board and it explained the situation.
I had forgotten about that. Old farewell e-mails to co-workers who left the company. Names I had long cleared from my mind pop back fresh. Those were good days. We had good times.
I will share this photo. It's from 2006, and you can see Theodore Tugboat in the background. (The ship with the baseball hat on it). Tourists love that thing. It actually is an operational tug boat. You can see the rolling fog bank coming in from the Atlantic ocean.
If I close my eyes, I can hear the seagulls.
The photos were stored on a CD-ROM I burned back in 2006. I bought an external DVD RW drive, and it could read it - after 14 years!
I also found old webex recordings with customers from 2006. So I downloaded a webex player, and opened a file. It worked. I was in shock. Here I was, as recorded, moving a mouse around 14 years ago. Windows XP and Server 2000/2003 were all the rage back then.
Out of curiosity, I watched a few of the webex videos. They were neat. I can remember doing this stuff.
And then I found my ancient work e-mail archive from 2005/2006. It was incredible. Old emails to developers in Russia. Messages to customers and co-workers.
I found a few that were interesting, because I forgot. There was an email from me mentioning that George had a stroke in June 2005, and since then had mental decline. Then I found he was rejected for workers compensation, so there was a letter I had help my wife write to the board and it explained the situation.
I had forgotten about that. Old farewell e-mails to co-workers who left the company. Names I had long cleared from my mind pop back fresh. Those were good days. We had good times.
I will share this photo. It's from 2006, and you can see Theodore Tugboat in the background. (The ship with the baseball hat on it). Tourists love that thing. It actually is an operational tug boat. You can see the rolling fog bank coming in from the Atlantic ocean.
If I close my eyes, I can hear the seagulls.
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