Scanning slides

My father over the several decades of service had accumulated boxes upon boxes of slides from his many postings all over the country. He retired recently and was cleaning out the attic (so to speak) and he promptly dumped a trunk full of slides. I had an immediate thought. I should scan them and keep them digitally.

Good Thought! only, I have several hundred slides. Who has the time. Next thought. Can I pay someone to do it for me.

Sure enough, a quick internet search later, I found a slide scanning service called Slide Scanning Pros. prices are not too expensive at 26 cents a slide. There is a cheaper option at 18 cents, if you are willing to make corrections yourself. Which is a good idea, if you want to handle a specific set yourself.

Health coverage

I have been reading up on healthy living the past few days and running through the health sections of the big name news brands like New York Times, The Australian, Washington Post, and several others. While the coverage is pretty comprehensive. It always seems to be missing a personal touch. That’s when I ran across this health blog. The first post currently is on Insomnia remedy, something my brother and I desperately  need help with. The tips seem to be helpful, remains to be seen if they work.

Health as a topic has a lot of coverage, but for some reason most dedicated websites try to be all and end all of health content and as a result mess up the whole affair.

New Recipes

I have had a fascination with cooking for quite a while. Even though I have never cooked on a day to day basis (that's handled by the maid). I still cook on the weekends. I was looking for new recipes to try and lucked across this health forum called Natural Medicine Talk. user contributed recipes for sure. But some interesting stuff. for e.g. Tomato/Dill Soup or Chickpea Salad.

Otherwise an interesting forum to go through. Good tips by users on healthy eating and living. Some really knowledgeable people talking about things like advisability of taking vitamin supplements etc. Other sections on the site include Men’s Health, Women’s Health and several more.