A while back a reader emailed me and offered help. I new it would be a pretty big task and to be honest I did not expect him to be able to take the time to get it done. Well I am very happy to say not only did he get it done he gave me everything I wanted and more.
Frank Carey is a retired computer hardware and software engineer. Frank started with mainframe computers back in the golden era of the 60's. That's before home pc's, Apple computers or our modern use if the internet. What better than to have a guy like that offer to help me out. He is a grandpa now with three grandchildren. Frank and his wife lived in San Diego on a sail boat for over 15 years before retiring and becoming a landlubber as he calls it.
Four years ago Frank retired and started scrolling. He has been a DIY kind of guy his whole life so scrolling was a natural hobby to get involved with. I consider myself very lucky that he started his new hobby and found my blog.Frank and I sent many emails back and fourth talking about what the catalog should be like. I had some basic ideas that I wanted and needed. From there he took the bull by the horns and dove in feet first. After a few week he had a good platform chosen and we were looking good. Then the real challenge started. All the patterns had to be transferred and hand categorized. Several of the links needed to be checked against the thumbnails which added up to hours of work.
After all of Franks hard work I put the new catalog live tonight. We might still have a little tweaking to do here and there. Click the catalog picture above to see the new catalog in your browser. There is also a link to it on the left hand side of the blog.
Oh by the way what do you think Frank charged me for hours and hours of work? Zilch, zip, nada, nutten baby. I am truly one of the luckiest guys around to be involved with the scrolling community. I get to have all this fun and meet people like Frank.
Thanks Frank. I honestly can not say that enough. You are the man!!