Picture The Poster !

Congratulations to both of you!

Thanks JBuck! We're really excited! I'll try to get an ultrasound photo up eventually. I have to say though, I think the "spousal tax" standard rate doubles during pregnancey mood swings....

coin collecting 101, eh? Sheesh, I wish I had a class like that when I was your age. Cool pic!

bullnuke, wheezydog, and tights24,
it was interesting, reading your posts, and comments. makes me think back when the ships were a lot different, than now. There were no Nuclear, (to my knowledge). I was kucky in that I never had to prove that iron will float! I did however bear witness that aluminum does, having spent my entire career in seaplanes. I cut my teeth on the old "yoke-boat", the PBY-5, and went thru several other models. I was trained, (schooled as a Aircraft machuiist mate), and because there was no hope of making "chief" in that field, converted to my hobby, and became an aviation electronics technician. Yes, I made chief, later. I have been on a couple carriers, (mostly as a passenger) the Boxer, The Valley forge, The USS Crockett, and the Boyd. We lost an engine on a "rigging run", and then the port engine lost power. The pilot made a smooth landing. what happened next is another story! Finally the Boyd came into sight, and we later were towed to a safe harbor. She towed us all night, (at about 6 knots), into Makoko harbor, (Bokoko), where we changed the starboard engine, on the water. while there, we saw them launch a Chinese vessel, and it went straight to the bottom! This was during the time that they were squabbling over Amoy, and Quemoy.
Thank you young men for serving your, (OUR) country! I would still enjoy serving, but I don't think I could even qualify for serving on the "chow line, serving "joe"!
Dick

You quit too easily. We won't let you off the hook. Posting pictures is the lifeblood of this forum. Here's how it's done ... wait, you said "don't try to explain".

Step one: Pics must be 100kb or smaller to post here. If yours is larger, resize it with just about any photo tool. I recommend "Paint" as it is on all PC's. If you have a MAC someone else will need to chime in. Right-click on your picture from the file and determine "properties" from the menu. This will tell you what size the picture is. For this example let's say it's 180kb. Right click again and select "open With" and then "Paint". From the paint program click on the "image" option at the top of the screen. One of the options is "Stretch/Skew", click on it. Your first set of options is "stretch". In the "Horizontal" box replace the 100% with 50%, do the same with the "Vertical", then choose "OK". Your picture will now be 50% of 180kb or 90kb ... just the right size for posting. Last step is to save the change. I recommend adding a file extension to the original file name so that it doesn't overwrite the original. Something like X1 (make sure there are no special characters or spaces in the filename, letters and numbers only). Now select "Save".

Step two: From the "Post New Reply" box on the CCF page, look below the box for a green camera icon "Add Image" and click on it. A box will appear. Click on "browse" and go to the location in your file where your picture is stored, then click on it. Then select "upload file" and voila your picture is loaded to the post. Choose the preview button to see it in the post prior to posting.

If you receive an error note when you choose "upload", that means the file was too large and/or the filename contained special characters or spaces.

C'mon, give it a try!

. Can't use/access photobucket at work. And when I hit the task button the browser box does not come up it just ends up sayin [image] in the text box. How bout somebody just let me e-mail it to ya and post for me. Workin on gettin a home computer but not sure how soon. WOLF

The button to post a pic. When I click it nothing happens other than the word [image] comes up in the box. Not the browser window which lets you pick your picture. I also see red X's on a lot of the posts. Which suxs cause I love lookin at the coins and errors etc. WOLF