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Hello kml

CMM’s old photo is touching. It’s one’s life. The journey of how we became.

Like others, I have my photos, just not on display like before. Still, it’s my life. One I’ve grown rather attach too. Lol.

For your digitizing project, it sounds like you have quite a bit of media. An extensive and cherished collection. Is it mostly audio (CD) or video (DVD)? The later requires plenty more storage space and project time if one is doing it themselves.

I’ve utilize a professional publishing service for transferring over things like my wedding video from VHS to DVD and MPEG format.

By the sounds of your stated samples, digital rights management would not hamper this process. For audio I’ve had good success with MediaMonkey. Both for transferring, organizing, and playback of my mp3 library. Caveat, my version of software is a few years not current, however I did Google search and it still exists. I wouldn’t suspect they’ve crippled their software so one would expect even better performance.

Video can be more problematic. Depending upon codec employed it can be rather aggravating. The resolution to the fight between Windows vs Apple products gets onerous in this arena. And at times, next to impossible. Still, it is doable.

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Another question, this for the baseball fans out there:

I have a box of signed souvenir baseballs that CMM left behind. I know nothing about them. I think he would have mentioned if they were truly valuable. On the other hand, he did have professional sports connections through his work in telecom sales and has a couple other items like a personalized signed photo of Julius Erving. Do you have any idea how I can tell if these baseballs have value? One for instance is signed by Joe DiMaggio. Several appear to have been signed by an entire team?

Those are definitely worth something. Try googleing it.

And btw there’s no certificates of authenticity, which makes me think they’re just souvenirs but who knows?

The ball also lists Bobby Brown as head of the American League which would place the signature between 1984 to 1994.

kml,

I too am a big fan of After Life. I must confess I'm a little worried by the end of season 3. I hope this isn't upsetting, but the poem his friend read near the end is not one I had heard so I looked it up. Here it is:

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep (Mary Elizabeth Frye)

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am in a thousand winds that blow,
I am the softly falling snow.
I am the gentle showers of rain,
I am the fields of ripening grain.
I am in the morning hush,
I am in the graceful rush
Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
I am the starshine of the night.
I am in the flowers that bloom,
I am in a quiet room.
I am in the birds that sing,
I am in each lovely thing.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there. I do not die.

I don't think anyone here needed you to us you were beautiful, your heart did that a long time ago. We women are funny about our hair. My bestie, who is dealing with systemic health issues and stopped dying her hair and is extremely self-conscious about it, had someone comment on her Cruella Deville hair. When she told me about it I said, "What a compliment, in every interpretation I've ever seen of her, her hair is her most celebrated feature." Own that hair. Have a lovely day.

I recall when my wife started going grey that she dyed her hair red just like her sister. I remember asking her "who are you lying to?"

She never dyed her hair again and it turned such a lovely version of salt and pepper that many people thought she did dye it to look like that.

And as I've told my kids (and myself) with various experiments we have done, it's just hair and with a bit of patience it can be changed. And at my age, I'm grateful to have that choice

Own -
That was the poem I read at my mother’s graveside.

D - all CDs (I digitized my home videos last year). Most of the CDs are commercial with the exception of a few and ones my kids made me of their music. I used to be able to easily rip them on an old laptop, but I think that one is defunct.

I really have a crazily diverse music collection. When my kids were young, I used to say the only way they could rebel against their parents musically was to become Barry Manilow fans lol. Although I’ll admit I don’t have much heavy metal.

I’ve also inherited my mom’s collection of country music and Xmas albums and CMM left a collection of jazz.

I also have CDs by musician friends, including a Jane Wiedlin CD signed to each of us in the family (we were good friends with her brother). Such good memories. So much good music!

Chatted with my friend who I met many years ago from this board (turned out she live 1/2 mile from my house). Her ex was in professional baseball and her daughter was able to sell her memorabilia through Leland's auction house, which is apparently THE place for sports memorabilia, and they can authenticate as well. So I'll contact them first once I have gathered any other items. It would be the easiest way to go, and although none of this is worth a lot, the total might be an extra thousand or two, which would be nice.