Today I was looking around at these piles of photographs I have and it seems pretty obvious that I need to think of some type of data storage solution. As it stands right now I have everything piled into shoeboxes. Some of the images are already starting to fade. I don't want what happened to my mom's photographs to happen to mine. She has all these pictures of us as kids and they're all separated from the envelopes with the negatives. There is no way she's going to sit there going through every single frame of negatives if I want a duplicate of something. There are better ways. I think what I'm going to do either later tonight or tomorrow is scan everything and upload it to my computer. I've been wanting to put everything together on a web site and that way it will be easier to keep things organized.  Everyone is always asking why I don't just put everything into albums but I've been wanting to do something different. I always was the different one in the family! I think after I take care of my own photographs I'm going to surprise my mom and do the same thing for her.