A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....07-21,22,23-06....T.G.I.F. at the Finest

July 21, 2006 | Billie

[Billie]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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Welcome to TGIF at the Finest!   We hope you've been having as much fun as we have with our essays and/or spotlight on various FReepers. From the beginning, we've been kicking back on Saturdays and Sundays and simply reviewing the features of the week; our weekend threads now start on Friday and continue through Sunday. If you missed seeing any of this week's threads and want to say hello there now, just click on the link for that particular day. If you'd like to drop in and out of this thread today through Sunday, please feel free to do that also. One of us will try to be around to see the welcome mat is still out, put the coffee pot on, and maybe even bring fresh flowers for the table. : )

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"Getting to Know You"

THIS WEEK'S THREADS


07-17-06 ~ Military Monday
By Billie
Presented by The Mayor

07-18-06 ~ Happy Birthday Secretary Rumsfeld
By GodBlessUSA

07-19-06 ~ Warm Fuzzy Wednesday
By Billie

07-20-06 ~ Hezbollah Virus being eradicated
By JohnHuang2
Presented by DollyCali

Have a wonderful weekend!

07-01-06 ~ Hall of Fame #16

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

"Wear Red" Friday

You will soon see a lot of people wearing Red on Fridays. Here's why..... The Americans, who support our troops, are the silent majority. We are not "organized" to reflect who we are, or to reflect what our opinions are. Many Americans, like yourself, and all their friends, simply want to recognize that Americans support our troops. Our idea of showing our solidarity and support for our troops is starting Friday and continuing on each and every Friday, until this is over, that every red-blooded American who supports our young men and women, WEAR SOMETHING RED.

Word of mouth, press, TV -- let's see if we can make the United States, on any given Friday, a sea of red much like a home football game at a University. If every one of our memberships share this with other acquaintances, fellow workers, friends, and neighbors, I guarantee that it will not be long before the USA will be covered in RED - and make our troops know there are many people thinking of their well-being. You will feel better all day Friday when you wear Red! So let's get the word out and lead by example; wear RED on Fridays.

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS! WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE. FOR US, THEIR BLOOD RUNS RED!! GOD BLESS AMERICA.

received this in my email June 10th, the author is unknown.
I am wearing red today and every Friday ~ Billie

[stopem]

Excellent suggestion.

[MEG33]

I started and then I forgot to begin again.. I must catch up this week! Thanks for the reminder!

[DollyCali]

It is now tour de France time.. and it was about a year ago I posted a LANCE ARMSTRONG THREAD... that was, well, a "LITTLE" controversial

We met Rammer(boy, what a guy!), Billie gave me a yellow rose, Lady X, our favorite lady marine, made some wonderful & playful posts (RIP our dear, dear lady), I met colonial warrior for first time, oesy posted a slew of gorgeous pix, darksheare showed up to protect all the "old women", Dutchess & aqua shared about their biking accidents - I did too...,Rammer & Aqua flirted, Rammer flirted with Darky, until he found out he was a guy... one of the detractors has been banned (she wasn't very nice),

another tour de France is almost complete. Lance & Sheryl Crow have gone separate ways, Lance spends A LOT of time with his children & with his foundation. He is part owner of the racing team he starred in last year... he was at the TdF to cheer them on.

Some things change... some things never do.

I am grateful for my FRiends here at the Finest & at FRee Republic!

[WVNan]

So, I'm right back to sending pics to Mama_Bear or Amy to post for me. Drat.

[WVNan]

Billie, you can have the large picture removed. I thought I had learned something, but apparently I have not. Back to the drawing board.

[DollyCali]

I can help you if you want. Most pix from Internet are already "sized". The ones that you take are the ones that are normally big.. You wouldn't believe the file sizes I take.. over a gig a piece..Not that many years ago that was the capacity of my entire hard drive & it was considered huge!

don't get discouraged

[ConorMacNessa]

I store my pics on Photobucket - anything over one Meg gets resized automatically.

[DollyCali]

I didn't know that.. nice plan!

[MEG33]

Hugs!
Have a great rest of the weekend!

[ConorMacNessa]

Hi Meg - how are you doing today?

[WVNan]

My problem, Dolly, is that I don't understand a lot of the language. I will see if son can help me to resize them. I pay for storage space with my Charter cable. It may have an automatic resize somewhere. I'll have him check it. Thanks for the offer.

[Diver Dave]

I had a problem with over-size pixels with the first pic I posted from my digital camera. Billie kindly resized it so it wouldn't be a problem with dial-up users.

I've got about 8 different photo programs, and discovered that the ACDSee program removes all the mega data and then I re-size the pic from 1200 x 900 to 350 x 211 (see below). Next I transfer the pics to Photobucket for display on a thread.

This photo taken on Independance Day started out at 451.8K, when ACDSee reduced it along with the cropping and re-sizing, I ended up with 23.5K bytes - much friendlier for dial-up.

Here, Logan is teaching Poppy how to "jump" on the trampoline and then land "on your booty." This "adventure" required a follow-up dose of flexeril and Naprosyn and a visit from my long-time friend Ben Gay.

Jump Like This, Poppy

[Majie Purple]

"LOL! I'm with you."

;OD

[Majie Purple]

"Love the little girls dressed in red!"

Thank ya kindly!
& I love the flower dressed/created in red!

[DollyCali]

Dave, Just read amy's post on the FResno thread. You were there!!!

do you take your pups? grandkids?

Pix???

[DollyCali]

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I have been on a plateau of sorts for almost a year Nan.. really haven't learned any new skills & it seems not enough time to work on the ones I already have to refine.

It is for sure a steep learning curve.

[La Enchiladita]

Apropo lesson from today's devotional.

[Diver Dave]

You were there!!!

Yep! Short 90 mile drive down US 99.

do you take your pups? grandkids?

No, made the trip alone - Well not quite alone. Sean Hannity and Lee Greenwood rode along with me and provided entertainment. Cranked up the volume when Greenwood sang "God Bless the USA" at the Freedom Rally in New Jersey.

Pix???

No pix - forgot to take the camera.

It was a GREAT rally. Little warm (110 degrees) but not bad for a couple of hours considering our nephew in Iraq experiences 110 as the coolest part of the day. We got to go home after that time in the heat, guzzle down an MGD and relax. He and his men and women won't be home til November. He was just home for 30 days leave and returned to Iraq last week.

At the rally, a Rabbi was blowing a shofar at the passing cars. Met a lot of great like-minded folks supporting Israel.

When I was in high school choir, we sang "He Watching Over Israel" and that song came to mind as the rabbi blew that ram's horn.

He promised to watch over Israel. Israel is in safe hands.

Shalom

[ConorMacNessa]

Sounds like you had a great day, Diver.

[MEG33]

Oh my aching bones..LOL!

I may freepmail you some questions about ACDSee when I get back to my daughter's..I have that on my other computer..I did not know it could remove all the data. I still manage to resize most to below 70,000 pixels or bytes. My first tries ended up as postage stamps..LOL

Thank you for attending the rally..Prayers for Israel.