The Sorting Continues

Marjan and his wife should be in Arizona now. Because of the rush, they were the recipients of the first slide show. From that show, I've learned a few things.

1. One city is enough. We only had one day, so we spent over six hours looking at slides. We even skipped most of Rome, all of Venice, and all of Germany. We also screamed through certain sections.
2. It's okay to scream through certain sections. Having a small audience was nice because it meant that if they didn't care about Notre Dame, we could just skip it. One of the main items on my to do list is to record all the transition points so future shows can instantly skip over a given museum, city, etc.
3. I need to live my life. I'd love to do a really thorough cataloging, but I think recording blurbs and transition points is the realistic plan. I finally laid all the ones I think are worth viewing end to end and it's a little over five thousand pictures. At my current rate of labeling (a couple hours and four hundred pictures a day) it will still take over a week to finish. I should put this as data entry experience on my resume. ;)

So that's where I'm at right now. London and France are close to done. Tomorrow should see Zurich and Florence brought up to date. Basically, I'm estimating one week of slides equals one city (until Berlin where I went crazy in the ethnology museum).

After that, it's just a matter of contacting you all individually and finding an evening or three to have dinner and see a major european city. :)