The Schvaneveldt Family Blog

Just thought you should know that Grandma called me at work to let me know that she had potatoes for me on my way home.

one of the many perks of living in portland.

I asked my sons to please help me with a computer task.  Whoever answered back first would get one dollar (they seem to work best when there is some sort of reward).  Anyway, as you can see, what it took one son to explain in 239 words, the other said in 38.  I find that interesting.

One son’s response:

After scanning, I would save the file to my desktop as a jpeg.  (Tiff would be fine.  Bitmap is good but the files are huge, which is not good for emailing.) 

There should be an option in your software for setting the resolution.  The worse the resolution, the smaller the file, the easier to email.  Of course, the worse the resolution, the worse the quality of the image also.   

After saving the file, you can see how big it is by pointing at the file (i.e. on your desktop) without clicking.  A window will pop up.  At the bottom it will give you the size of the file.  You definitely need the file to be less than 10MB.  Ideally you would like it less than 1MB (i.e. anything with unit kB is great).  If your file is too big, you can rescan it at a lower resolution or call me and I can teach you how to compress the files. 

Then open an email, add the jpeg file to the email, and send. 

If you want to save the jpeg for later, open up “My Documents”, and drag the file into that window.  Even better, create a folder in “My Documents” for scanned images you want to save.  Let me know if you need help doing that (Hint: start by right clicking in My Documents, choose “New”, and then “Folder”.  Be sure to give the folder a descriptive name.) 

You can put the $1 toward my tab.

The other son said this: 

Did I get the dollar? 

Choose email it then choose JPEG or save it to the desktop and attach it to the email. If you open up your email options you will see “attach”. Then browse to your desktop and select the file. 

 Of course, they both will be rewarded for their excellent efforts.

I was cleaning out some old files on my computer and I came across this one. I am not sure who all these people are, other than the first person on the left, who is obviously Megan and Eric’s first born son.

P.S.  Cute kid.

The Instant Classic:

Thought we could give the site a new look for a while. I will try to find a better one soon. This is a little cheesy but I needed some change. Remember, I am the one that rearranged my room on a weekly basis.

Dad thought this might interest you if you have some time for pleasure reading:

(***Warning:  The following post is not intended for any women-folk whatsoever.  Advance further only at your own risk.***)

A moment of silence please. The last undefeated team falls.

Don’t hang your head, Peyton. You will get another chance to beat them … in the Super Bowl.

I didn’t like your joke about matt’s masculinity

you didn’t offend just him.

you offended the family.

it’s not good to offend the family, especially my family.

-The Foreigner

p.s. Silvio sounds like a nice name for the new baby. it would help the family to forget…

H.S. Football State Champion? Check. Check.
Superbowl Champion? Check. Check. Check.
NFL MVP? Check
Superbowl MVP? Check
NFL Career Rushing Yards Leader? Check

Winner of Dancing With the Stars? CHECKAROONEY!!!

It is complete. He has whooped up on the Bills and the Steelers and now ‘Saved By The Bell’. Slater never had a chance. This HAD to have hurt even more than his loss to Screech.

Gold shoes. MC Hammer. Couldn’t be prouder.