Looking out the window...

It's a good day to be inside, looking out, I think.... except that the apartment on the other side of the wall behind my desk is being renovated, and its kitchen is against this wall. The kitchen cabinets were torn out last week, with a great deal of crashing and breaking of woodwork, and now the new cabinets are going up, requiring a concrete drill to make the holes for the anchors. When that drill comes on, even if I'm expecting it, the noise really startles me - it's very loud. These concrete buildings are like being inside a drum with someone beating on it whenever modifications are going on - and lately, that seems to be most of the time. When one gets finished, another starts. Sometimes, with all the holes it seems people have drilled into these walls, I wonder what's holding the place up....

Today, the subject of removing scratches from images came up, and this points up the fact that there aren't a lot of foolproof programs available for cleaning up old images. There are some, but they usually cost quite a lot, and even then they don't do a perfect job, if their trial demo versions are any indication. And I'm not buying something that doesn't live up to its advance publicity.