Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

[drumstick diva]

Tara, just sent you my addy. I thought we had emailed before but, now realize it was through BYC pm's. I will miss your photos but, am sure I have most imagines floating around in my brain..

 

[CanuckBock]

Tara, just sent you my addy. I thought we had emailed before but, now realize it was through BYC pm's. I will miss your photos but, am sure I have most imagines floating around in my brain..

Thank you DD.

The reason I am going to old school e-mail format is so I may attach the photos to the e-mail I am sending out. This way I will KNOW the size of the data I am sending in the attachment. I may send an update of words and the matching photos that go along with it like I post on here but not on a forum but to each person's e-mail address.

What is happening is when I go to load a photo here on BYC...the photo half loads and then quits (so half or 3/4 or 1/4 of the data but not the one entire photo...so I have to keep doing that until it takes and that in the past while means 15 minutes for ONE photo and six times its original size), when the photo stops loading, I am given an error message and have to start all over again...and again.

I keep trying to load up the photo, and in some cases, the photo will load after half loading several times. It is getting worse and worse.

One photo of say 100KB will result in me trying to load data 3 to 6 times its original value. So a 100KB becomes a 600 KB...which is ridiculous and which is why our internet bills keep on increasing because we are using more data up trying to load photos that fail to completely load up...it is happening more and more often.

By e-mail, I sent the photos out once to all that want to receive it--ONCE...a 100KB sized photo is just that, a data value of 100KB and not six times that data size...because I tried to load it and it kept failing.

Does that sorta make sense?

Tara

 

[hennible]

Makes sense

 

[perchie.girl]

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Tara You might consider software that will allow you to save the photo file formatted for Office. It reduces the pixel count enough to drop the file size down to 25K or so... You still keep the originals incase you need the detail but the pictures come out totally clean and clear.

I use a photo editor by Corel for this.

Here is a full res photo



and the same photo saved for Office.



It took less than half the time to send the second photo.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Another option is to load your pictures once on a picture website... Then use only the URLs of each picture you want to share here....

I am using this option more and more.

deb

 

[CanuckBock]

Heel low:

Another jest text message...sigh...

Just a heads up...no internet service at all until now.

Deb...I already gravely reduce the size of the photos I take...so I am already using small sized photos compared to the originals I take. The originals are 12 MB each on my Pentax camera, 3 to 6 MB on my pocket Cannon. I have used photobucket (nfi) like forever now. Some places like on The Coop and other forums I belong to, only way they accept pics is via a link to a photo dumping site. Photobucket is no cake walk either...that site has its up days and down days that is for sure and sometimes it has hiccups that make you wanna tear your hair out for how aggravating it can be about just loading pics up...but no matter. Let me count the nail marks in my blotter on the times I have gone..."AGH...didn't TAKE IT AGAIN!" Reload...and wait on baited breath...

A url link to the photos, just will not do...that is what we appear to be doing right on here. You have to load the photo up and with interrupted and now NO service from the provider we have had for several decades...loading to some other photo site is not any answer to the data I am paying for that is incompletely loaded and repeated over and over again.

THE best answer so far, is old school e-mail with attachments! At least I can do that OFF line (compose the words and place title and comments about the photos and then save the photos to be attached to the e-mail--all done on my time...OFF LINE) and send it when and IF my service provider supplies us service.

I am currently in the midst of looking for a new service provider. This time when I called to report that I could not even load up my e-mail, got the worst response to date. No ticket number, they would call me back if I wanted...but like to say what...that the transient, choosing to be displaced people all living under the tower have snagged our signal for the entire spring AND summer again?? Had a great laugh (more like a bafooning whimper) that yet another person comment on ALL the people out living here in the woods in their RV's...like a "bloomin' city" they said! So it is only going to go from bad to extremely worse from here on in till, what October perhaps?

I found one internet provider that will sell us ten times the maximum data we have ever used up in one month for half what it costs us now per month with the current provider---have to go in for a one year contract on it, so I am hesitant to jump at it until we mull it over a bit. The bonus to me is that they don't have you jockey on a tower to get service, you get your own satellite dish put up (which you pay to have done...of course!) like the one we have for TV now. Course the salesperson makes it sound all lush and reliable. I have my doubts on any of this being fail safe...so gonna keep looking--once you sign up, that be that for the next 12 months, eh. Our bill for TV is terrible (ah, gone where the days of antenna TV and just three channels if you were very lucky, but at least we got to watch CBC and the news, eh!--sounds like what we WATCH NOW!). The satellite TV keeps on increasing in costs with less and less shows we like to view. The ones we did like, even those they don't run again as re-runs which would be better than some of the crap they have on offer today. That got 100 channels and still nothing to watch syndrome. If'n we have to make a change because we get NO service, it needs to be for service, otherwise, we will have to wait for winter to freeze out the freeloaders in the bush here, send them packing off to some place else. Hey Henny...you want some bill dodging Albertans to come stay in yer neck of the woods come October, so I can have my e-mail & internet service back by then?



So to any that are dragging their feets...this will be the last day to send me a personal e-mail to subscribe. Not sure I will have service to send OUT the e-mail I planned to do tomorrow, but it is a new day, eh! Anything is possible come a new day here in Pear-A-Dice...

Update on Sweet Fixins...she had another dump...oh goody. Drinking good and eating like a piggy...cooked her up another batch of baked liver and crepes a la fromage (pullet egg cheese omelet!). Fur us, we have a big old crock pot of chili on the cook that I made this morn and gonna do up a bread machine loaf to go with it...break out the butter it bread supplies...gonna taste great.

Gorgeous day, away I go again... <scurry scurry>>

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[scottcaddy]

That is a mess!

I have a satellite dish for TV, it getts iffy in rain and goes out in heavy rain/thunder storms. I don't have much choice in that, too far out in the woods for cable, and the phone companys DSL is almost as slow as good dial-up was back in the day.
Good luck Tara!!

Scott

 

[hennible]

Hey Tara you have my email
Add me to that list!

 

[CanuckBock]

That is a mess!

I have a satellite dish for TV, it getts iffy in rain and goes out in heavy rain/thunder storms. I don't have much choice in that, too far out in the woods for cable, and the phone companys DSL is almost as slow as good dial-up was back in the day.
Good luck Tara!!

Scott

Sounds about right. The kid bought Rick a GPS long before they were more common. Kid does that, gives his Dad the latest in technology...Rick's pretty hip on this electronics...he's the kinda guy that knows how to program and wire up all sorts of gizmo's. I'm useless at that crappola, so I appreciate someone that does have the scruples to apply themselves and learn how to use all that new stuff. I do realize it is a money grab, because the newest and latest greatest creates a market that is never satisfied...always being superseded with improvements.

So we don't use the GPS until we are like in the middle of down town Edmonton on an overcast day. Yup, piece of garbage in my opinion because when might you need a GPS...in the fog or bad weather conditions might be nice. We laughed and laughed. Another piece of infallible technology...the Government Weather station. Rick laughs...when does it go down? Always about half a day prior to some big storm hurdling our way. Now we know a storm is brewing if we check on the channel and it's out. LMBO So much for have a radio and extra batteries handy...why...so you can be amused by the static when its out? :-(

We have no satellite TV service in the big hail or rain/thunder storms too. When one might want to hide out and watch a bit of telly? When the weather outside is frightful...HA! Keep thinking on that! Back in the day, at least you could still throw on the VCR and watch the shows you taped that you missed watching...wah wah wah!


We'll see what we can do on the internet service provider. Rick works with a fella that somehow has both his TV (I believe it would be something like NetFlicks (nfi) which they use...dangerous item to have if you don't have GB's of data allowed, never mind high definition movies...eek!), cel phones and internet all provided by one service. He bought a place near here and just recently had all this hooked up. Rick's one SIL also has some provider that does package deals. We'll nose around more serious and see.

I'm laughing because we do pay WAY too much for MB's of data where all the other providers are talking about GB's of data...unimaginably LARGE concept to me, a GB? We have a computer backup device that is a few TB's. I get the amount, I just don't consider it an option currently.

I do still miss my dial up...yeh it was like baling twine and two tin cans but it WORKED...and in reality, up until we HAD to switch...the service seemed to get better and quicker more and more as time when on...because nobody was staying with it. Sigh...antenna TV...remember the rabbit ears and how your father would wrap them in tinfoil...have your little sister stand in a certain place holding them...so he could watch the football game on CBC. Ah yes, the good ol' dazes... ACK! Hurry on home to help the reception. :-/

Carrier pigeons, smoke signals, messages in bottles...riding a horse to commute to work. You know it was not too long ago to contemplate going really backward old school...I know fuel has dropped substantially and the price of new motor vehicles sure took a hit and price checked themselves back to reality...but sometimes when a vehicle runs you $20,000 and the cost of insurance, fuel and repairs goes idiotic...I would often ponder, what if you did get up earlier, did take in more time and breathe in all that life has to offer...and rode a horse in to work if you were employed in an Office Complex...heh heh heh. Green house gas test that carbon tax increase versus a combustible fuel engine. Less wear & tear on the pavement...lotsa road apples for compost (I want THAT job; road side collection contractor)!

Yee haw and slop the chooks...giddy up, eh!

Hey Tara you have my email
Add me to that list!

Can do...& thanks

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[hennible]

You know until the invention of the first trains, the fastest thing (well people) on earth were the (oh crap, brains not working...) Huns ( or Mongols, can't remember :/ ) on horse back... From outpost to outpost they would eat, drink, sleep on there horses... Switch horses at the outpost and continue... The sweat from the horses as well as the body heat cured the meat the riders ate... Amaizing people... I'm leaning toward it being the Mongolians now...