S’More Pics

I continue having a little fun, when I can work it in, playing around with internet photo sites like Flickr. It’s kind of cool being able to upload little collections of photos, albums if you will, and invite others to have a look. It’s really easy to upload the pics, and as far as I can tell is easy for others to have a look.

My latest little collection consists mostly of some photos taken at Golden Gate Park not too long ago, that I use for “wallpaper” on my computers. It’s nice using one’s own pictures for this. Kind of personalizes the computer.

So, if anybody wants to have a look, they’re here on my Flickr page, the “Golden Gate Park” set. I recently upgraded to a “pro” Flickr account. Costs something like $30 for a year with unlimited uploads and storage, or something like that. If anybody sees a pic they like, feel free to use it. I cropped these to be on the wide side, on account of one of my monitors being wide screen. Ordinary wallpaper photos left blue columns on right and left of screen.

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California and More Photos

I offloaded photos from the camera and uploaded a few in case anybody would like to have a look. I ought to have taken more pics during the recent California visit. Actually, I did, but some of them are on the cell phone and I haven’t offloaded those yet. You can see the new photos on my Yahoo 360 Page (which I’d forgotten existed but it still does) by selecting “Cool Photos 2006” and “Palace Aug 07 2006” or, alternatively, go straight to the pertinent albums by clicking on the following thumbnail images. The “Palace” pics are, obviously, recent California pictures. The “Cool” pics are mostly Kansas, actually, except for a couple of pretty cool shots of Stephen’s new ride.

For Cool 2006: For Palace Aug 07:

Also, in setting up the photos it occurred to me that everybody ought to have a Yahoo account. As it is, these albums are viewable by the “public”, meaning anybody who stumbles across the URL can look at the photos. However, they can be set to be viewable only by “friends”, who can access them using their Yahoo account login. There are similar things that can be done on Google where people can “share” something by using their Google account login. Of course, in the case of Google, I’ve set up the Chappell Famly google account that I recently sent emails about. Hmm, maybe I’ll set up a Chappell Famly yahoo account. That would take care of it, as well. Hang tight, I’ll let y’all know.

Back in Kansas

John and Becky are back in Kansas. We clicked our heels three times (each) Thursday and found ourselves in a long check-in line at Oakland airport due to the high security alert caused by would-be terrorists in London and/or a power outage at the airport. Nevertheless, things moved along more quickly than first impression suggested, and we had plenty of time waiting at the gate for departure time. The plane was only about half an hour late leaving, and only about 15 minutes late arriving. The Kansas City airport was the most congested I can remember ever seeing, including at any Christmas we ever flew the last 20 or 30 years. This made about the same level of congestion as a normal day at Oakland or San Francisco. It was drizzling, humid and close to 80 degrees. The house, when we got to Lawrence, was nice and cool. Today we tried to get up at a decent hour (i.e. about 8:00) but we were both so fatigued we ended up sleeping until noon. I suppose this was a cumulative fatigue that we didn’t notice building up during the visit in CA. I went around this afternoon picking up mail for home and office, the sun out and temp around 91 with not too awful humidity. This evening we’re just sitting around wishing we were still in CA.

More in a future article – maybe even some pictures!