Timestamps generally in Pacific Standard Time (PST) or Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) unless otherwise noted. Welcome to my Oatmeal Daily which is generally posted & syndicated to different websites daily by me, Oatmeal Joey Arnold, feel free to mirror, edit, clip, reupload my content. For more information, see some of the links on this page or you can try to Google search or look me up using keywords like Oatmeal Joey Arnold @ joeyarnoldvn and other keywords. Try using different combinations of words in search engines for better results. Find the best DVD player I can connect to my laptop via regular USB, it does not have to be USB-C but should be able to output via USB at least 1080p at 30fps without lagging or anything at normal playback speed under $60, must be able to copy any and all audio from DVDs and CDs, must have the top most best technology for reading through even scratches on discs and all problems, look for the best player out there. I am focused on copying my DVDs which had copies of my VHS tapes of home videos made with camcorders starting in 1996 with a large camcorder that held VHS tapes, the camcorder was several years old in 1996. Had a few other camcorders to through to 2003 which was the end of the collections of tapes copied to DVD. But the DVDs have many scratches and problems. I am trying to simply copy the data on the DVDs to my computers and use programs on my Ubuntu laptop to try to restore the videos. Find the best DVD player that can help me. Find the best most universal photo negative reader to read and copy the most types and sizes of negatives to save them directly to SD or internal or something reliable including possibly to my Ubuntu laptop too but under $60, must be the highest possible quality, possibly the jpg or jpeg photo file format but only if those formats don't create potential problems with artifacts on the side of photos with pixels which I noticed when saving from scanners to files on my computers when saved to jpeg or jpg or certain formats which is why I save most scans as png files instead of jpeg or other format, so find the best photo file formats, try to determine which formats might be the best for me, see which devices might do this and more. Find the top negative scanner that can be connected to my Ubuntu laptop via USB so I can use SANE or Simple Scan or whatever programs on my laptop to scan all kinds of negatives via my laptop to save as PNG files, all types of negatives going back over 100 years. Does the Epson Perfection V850 Pro have a backlight? Negatives can be read anywhere on the scanner Epson Perfection V850 Pro or only in certain places on the scanner? Bed by 2 AM. Dream where like I did something that caused my dad to die, maybe sent him letters in the mail but in the wrong way or something. My dreams are so complex and I often forget most of the details. Saturday morning, I forgot most of the dream but at the very end I was like dating women at bars or whatever, I do not know how many times or was it one time, was it one woman, I do not even know if I was actually dating them or only thought about it, I was moving that direction, I forget so much of these dreams, the exact details even as I am dreaming my dreams, then woke up, the end. Breakfast: 09:40 AM. Sunday school, Genesis, Beth. Bathroom. Saw no tea. Did not drink coffee like I do sometimes. Gabe and his family led worship, mom wanted a photo of it but I didn't. Sat next to a Richard. Children ministry is growing. Single mothers are on a rise including the one with like 3 daughters to my right. There is the other with only one that came in the middle of worship. Communion and the sermon led by Doug who went through Hebrews 12, he said even the best had problems, the hall of fame or the fall of faith, the top characters from the Bible, David, Moses, and even people we look up as role models in our lives are not perfect but we can still benefit from each other. Had to find mom's Bible as we were going home, picked out tomatoes especially to take home. Sunny. Lunch: 01:18 PM. Sorting papers on my bed. Night church, 06:00 PM, night church, gathered food, Bill the singer married like 50 years did a sermon on how people like NASA spend money not really on science like to study black holes but to disprove God. Instead, they end of proving God. Saw kids running around, one lady was telling me about one. Like hey this one running around, maybe still needs a cast or something from injuries. Got home but drove a little too fast for mom around corners where I sped up at times. Sorting papers for an hour while eating, gave mom a box to sort, dishes for almost an hour to 09:30 PM. Dinner: 08:30 PM. Food log: Breakfast: coffee, pear, oatmeal, 09:40 AM. Lunch: rice beans tomatoes soup on BBQ chips, 01:18 PM. Dinner: zucchini with carrots and stuff plus broth was good, 08:30 PM. Baked apple pie was good, 09:30 PM. Bed at 10:00 PM.