Day 97 Chores again

Creating a new blog site
Every time we reach a marina that has connections for water and electricity, we take the opportunity to clean the boat. Part of this is necessary to remove the salt that blows off the water and deposits on everything. Not only does this make the boat surfaces sticky but it makes any fabric damp. The laundry in the marina is a welcome sight.
Once the boat was clean, I turned my attention to photo editing. The good news about digital photography is you can take a lot of pictures. The bad news is that you take a lot of pictures - and not all of them are good ones. I have two cameras - the big and heavy Nikon and a small and very portable Canon (SD 500). I almost never take the Nikon off the boat so when we go on hikes or go out on the water, I take the Canon in a waterproof bag. In either case, I use Adobe Literoom to select the best shots and edit them - mostly to straighten the horizon and crop the non-subject mater.
In addition to my camera, Kurt and Andy both take pictures that I want to include in my album (mainly because that is the only way I can get pictures of myself). If I put their pictures in the album I mark them with a "K" or "A" in the title so blog readers will know who did the work. Wendy from Liahona has also provided me with some underwater pictures that I mark with a "W".
Sometimes, I have had to do more editing, particularly on Andy's underwater pictures. Without a strobe, underwater pictures lose most of their color except the green so I need to adjust the color back to what you would see if you were snorkeling or diving. I can do 50 to 100 pictures an hour depending on the amount of editing needed so when one considers that I have taken about 2000 pictures, it is easy to see where the time goes. Hey, one may only do a trip like this once but it is possible to re-live it many times over through the memories evoked by the pictures.
Because we had a reasonable Wi-Fi Internet connection, I also started to tackle the blog problem. I started the blog when I was in Mexico and used the Apple dotMac website as the host and the program iWeb to compose the blog. iWeb runs on my computer so there is no need to be on-line when writing the blog or choosing what pictures to post. Once each page is composed, I can establish an Internet connection and rapidly publish what I have written. At least this is the way it is supposed to work and indeed the way it did work when I was in Mexico. In addition, the result was an attractive, professional looking blog.
Once I left Mexico, the only connection I had to the Internet was through the ham radio on the boat, Through this, I could send the text to Tim and he could post it. The only glitch is that the iWeb pages were on my computer so he had to start a second blog site to which he could post from his own computer. That seemed to work pretty well until I got to the Marquises. At that point, Tim's connection stopped working and I was not able to post at all even when I could find a reasonable Internet connection.
Because Andy is "an IT guy" I asked him for advise and found that he was using the Google Blogger without problems. Although I did not want to start over, it seemed the only choice. I looked at Sailblogs as another option but finally decided to use the same site that Andy uses since if I encounter problems, I can ask him for help.
Today I set up a new website on Blogger and committed to the laborious task of re-posting the entire blog and creating a matching photo record on the companion site Picasa. I still like the "prettyness" of the Apple site but I need to use something that works so from now on you will be reading this on Blogger. I welcome your comments.