Bo Zarts

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November 28, 2016

The 10,000 acre Pinnacle Mountain Fire (Upstate South Carolina)

The bad news: It is now within about three miles of my house.

The good news: This area is forecasted to get 5-6 inches of rain, starting late today, over the next three days. That will virtually douse any and all wildland fires in this area. I call it "auto mop-up."

The really good news: My mountain neighbors are finally heeding my warnings of the last few years about the fire dangers of this area. Nothing like the smell of drift smoke in the air to help sell the "Firewise.org" concept! My new bumper stickers come this week: "FIREWISE YET?" I'll post pics when I get them.

Pics: Sunday, November 27, from Caesar's Head State Park, SC (Sony A7-R2).

November 7, 2016

Adobe Creative Cloud/Google Nik users: GREAT NEWS!

The new CC-2017 update (PS/LR/BRIDGE) kicked out my Nik plug-ins this morning (11/7/2016). Of course, I totally panicked and my B/P increased significantly. Imagine my surprise when I called Adobe and they very graciously offered to restore third-party Nik (Google-owned) to their Adobe products.

What the hell is going on? I had three employees at Lowes trying to help me yesterday in Brevard. The South Carolina DMV is actually a pleasant place. And now Adobe admits that third party plug-in software exists, and actually helps install it if you have it downloaded.

Life is good!

November 1, 2016