I usually have a project (or two) going that I document here.  For a few months now I have been organizing old photos.  First my own photos which involved scanning about 200 rolls of negatives.  They were all organized and dated, so it wasn’t a hard job, just a boring time consuming one.

Earlier in the year I had scanned in a large pile of photos that belonged to my father.  I recall about 5,000 in all.  They were in no particular order, so I just put them in groups of a few hundred, and made them available to family on Google Photos.

There were still negatives of my father’s in a box (he was a professional photographer).  Didn’t seem like much but they were about another 5,000 photos, many overlapping with the prints I had already scanned.

Recently I decided to try and date and sort these 10,000 or so semi-random photos.  It’s has been a bit fun to go through all the old family photos.  I have to put in an upvote for the software I have been using.  I’m a Linux user but looked at Windows too.  Whatever would make the job easier.  I have been really impressed with the gThumb application on Linux.  Great for moving and editing large groups of photos.  I can’t imagine having made nearly this much progress this quickly or painlessly with any other tool I looked at.  If you have a large photo organizing job to do, definitely give gThumb a look.

Few years back, when we decided to sell the house, we had a new fence put up.  The old fence was 25 years old and falling apart.  Our lot is an acre so it was a big expense.  It came up in conversation last week, my wife mentioning it cost $30k.  No, I replied it was more like $10k.  My wife looked it up and the cost was actually $20k.  We were both right, on average.