I’ve been feeling overwhelmed by photo storage lately. On my Macbook I have an SSD hard drive (the flash kind so no spinning and it’s super fast), but as a result it’s smaller than normal and fills up faster. Every so often I have to transfer my photos off of my computer onto an external drive and hope that I’m not erasing my previous photo transfers with the new ones and that I don’t lose the external drive completely the way we lost the remote to the TV 18 months ago — really. It has never reappeared and trying to guess which tiny button on the back of the TV is the volume and which causes the TV to jump to ear-splitting static is a fun guessing game that I always lose. But anyway, photos.
I read up on several cloud storage systems and decided to go with Google Drive because google is lord of the internet so it seemed like a logical choice. If they’re all up in my private business anyway, why not let it work for me? iCloud storage was too expensive for cheapie me and the others were too fancy with their document offerings, etc. So I downloaded Google Drive onto my phone and computer and guess what I found? Folders already organized by year and month with any photos that were already online (not from Facebook, but any photos that had appeared on my blog or anywhere else). Mama Google had already done my cleaning and organizing for me. (Thanks Big Brother for your 1984 ways.)
Look at these baby faces!
All these old photos that I haven’t looked at in forever because so much of our lives are portable these days! Awe, baby cheeks . . . now I need to find Camille’s baby photos and her birth photos so she can see herself. Better dig out the hard drive and save those to the cloud too. Josh hid them so the spread eagle shots didn’t end up cycling through on our computer monitor as the screen saver. “Hey, there’s Mom, naked in the hospital again.” Oops. The best part about the cloud is I can look through thousands of photos on my phone or my computer and not take up any room on my device. Yay for more free space on my hard drive!
Anyway, I’m happy to report that so far my cloud experience has been a success. I have it set to whisk away any new photos I take so I’ll only have to go back and try to sync my old backups that never made it online. That might take a while, but at least I’ll be covered moving forward!
I didn’t take these photos — a friend’s husband who is an amazing sports photographer snapped these at the boys’ soccer tournament last weekend. They started playing with a group this spring that is geared toward skills development, not just recreation.
Our photographer friend said Caleb has great “action hair.”
They didn’t win either game, but that might have been because they were all wilting out there in the middle of the day under the hot sun. It was our hottest day yet and they played 2 hours of soccer, stopping to dunk and cool down in between games.
American Soccer Club of Bahrain 2015
This was the last event for the year (and it’s getting much too hot to play!), but they plan on picking back up again in September. Calvin was still in Germany and this tournament was just for the middle aged kids (they go from 7 to 18).