We just had our "Christmas Tree Cutting" party. My whole family (15 of us) all go to a tree farm and cut down our Christmas trees. Then we go back to my mom and dad's house for lunch and games. This year we played quite a few games. 1. put lots of different objects on a tray, hairbrush, matches, watch, magazine etc. (about 20-25). Cover the tray with a towel. Give everyone a paper and pencil. Now take off the towel and give everyone about 10-15 seconds to look at the tray. cover the tray up again and have everyone write down all the things they remember. The person with the most number of things right is the winner. My sister ran this game this year and she even had some bonus questions to break a tie, like what time was on the watch, what colour was the hat of the guy in the picture. etc. 2. The other one that was lots of fun was to put everyone into teams. Give each team a pair of mittens. The object of this game is for each member on the team to put the mittens on, walk up to a table with a bowl of candy and unwrap a candy from the bowl. When they have unwrapped the candy, they pass the mittens to the next person in line. Put out one candy for every team member. We did it with candies wrapped in cellophane, but to make it harder I would use foil wrapped candies. I hope you have fun, we did. Happy Holidays.

there are many really good useful screen capture free programs out there, bobs link to those at gizmo provides several of the top choices. Many have the editing stuff all built in to them. On my linux I have one called ksnapshot which is so easy to use wish they had just that item for windows. On windows I have used a few including the gadwin program and I have used this one Screenpresso logo and the picpick one mentioned at the gizmo site. I had no idea the pdf select tool would not work on some items. That is strange. on the ones y'all tried it on had you actually saved the pdf file to your pc or were you viewing the pdf file from the online site? just wondering if that would make any difference. I have never encountered that problem.

Funny about weight of books. Sometimes when I'm working at the Friends of the Library shop I'll jokingly tell customers who buy heavy books that he's lucky; we aren't charging by the pound today. I've never been a real collector of things. I don't care for little do-dads that I've have to dust. I once heard someone say that if you had more than three of something it was a collection. I'd guess you'd say that I have a collection of samovars, I think I have six now. Mostly are Russian, but not all. The problem is that I live in a garden home and it's a bit hard to find a place for them. I suspect I'll have to find homes for them soon.

Open up Task Manager and click on Processes and then Services. You will find running a lot of things that you don't need. Right click on them and then choose "End" or "Stop". I have a Sony Vaio computer and I stop from running all of the Vaio services such as Vaio update, Vaio Smart Network, Vaio Event Service etc. Computers come loaded with this stuff. I also stop Skype (I don't Skype), Windows Search (read that this is a memory hog and I don't know what it does), Xbox (I don't have), Windows Error Reporting Service, Windows Push Notifications User Service, Windows Biometric Service, and a lot more. If you right click on them, there is a selection for "Search Online" to help you determine if you need these things.