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I've been slaving over a hot keyboard today. I actually put in something on the order of six hours organizing and selecting photos, putting them on my flickr page, finding that half of them were already there, blasting away duplicates, deciding on an order, captioning, and mostly, waiting for flickr to wake up. That was the fun part.

Anyway, the magnum opus is finished. I have made a new photoset of the pictures I took in 2006 and 2007 of the derelict amusement venue, Holyoke's Mountain Park, and the nearby derelict (and somewhat newer) water park. Mountain Park closed in 1987 after 80 years, and the wooden coaster was torn down in 1990.

In the course of looking up older photos to put names on some of my pictures, I learned that Jay Ducharme (whose pictures and sound files I linked to) finished a book on the park's history. He was one of the last carousel operators. The book, fittingly, is being sold at the carousel, which is now in Heritage Park, by the Children's Museum. It came out about four months after we moved out of town.

I also found out that bulldozers have finished obliterating the place, and a new owner hopes to make a concert venue of it.

( some samples after the cut )

Seriously, go have a look if you can. I hiked in the hot sun to get these because I thought it was interesting, and I put a couple dozen of them up two and three years ago, respectively, and they've been looked at between zero and three times, ever. Be the first on your side of the Mississippi!
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help meeeee

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I have a potential job from a client with a QuarkXPress file they'd like changes made to. There is one small hitch.

"This is a multiple language document and can only be opened in QuarkXPress Passport." The document was saved in Passport as a multiple language document, therefore only Passport can open the document. Had it been saved as a single language document, I am told that regular Quark can open it.

If someone with QuarkXPress Passport could be found, they could save the document as a single language document. Barring further unforeseen developments, I should then be able to make changes to the document and earn a fee.

Does anyone out there in Radio Land have this program, which costs $500-$900 US? If so, I would be most anxious to enlist their aid. I have not yet reached the stage of an agreement between me and the potential client. I asked to look at the file so that I could make an estimate. It is possible I might be able to get a small sum from the client for the conversion. I don't know yet. I was hoping I could estimate two or three hours of work at my regular rate and make some quick money.

These are the facts. Can you tell me who killed Colonel Mus-- I mean, can anyone help me with this? If nobody else in the world has bought this program, I'll understand. Believe me, I'll understand. I'm exploring avenues here. (Or is that yet another Quark program?)
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