Author: John
Just Out Of Curiosity
Usually the first thing when I wake up (or try to wake up) is I check the clock to see what time it is. This morning, though, I didn’t bother.
Often, while I eat breakfast, I watch the TV to see what the weather is going to be, and if there is any news of note. This morning, though, I didn’t bother.
Generally, when I get to the office, I head for the message machine to see who wanted to talk to me before I got there, and whether it was anything important. This morning, though, I didn’t bother.
As a rule, after I’ve checked messages, I hit a few keys on the computer to call up the email program so I can find out if there are any new email messages I should be concerned about. Today, though, I didn’t bother.
Usually, when I realize I’m behaving a bit oddly, I wonder why. Today, though, I didn’t think twice about it.
Just out of curiosity, is all.
Another Happy New Year!
Let’s see, since the last time I posted an article we’ve had Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanza and New Year’s, plus some others that escape me on account my particular ethno-centricity. Out of all those events, I’d have to say Christmas was the most eventful and memorable. Whew, what a stomach flu! Aside from that, I seem to recall a trip to California’s Bay Area.
I could, of course, write several hundred words about the trip, the visit, the relatives, the events, but I think I may have to break it up into additional articles. I spent most of the day today (Saturday Jan. 6 – not sure what date stamp will show up on this) offloading image files from the camera’s memory card to the computer, and then going over them with a bit of cropping here and rotating there, and then uploading them to my Flickr account where they are, for the time being, designated as “private” so only the chosen few to whom I’ve sent the magic URL can look at them.
I also edited and stitched together some video files that I took with the digital camera, to make a three minute “movie” that y’all can watch by clicking here, assuming your computer has Windows Media Player or some other program capable of playing “.wmv” files. It’s a “mere” 7.4 MB in size, so it’ll be helpful if you have a broadband connection.
After all that, it’s a bit after midnight, Becky’s gone off to bed, and I’m about to go that way myself. But, I couldn’t call the day’s work complete until I got the movie uploaded and got the announcement thereof posted; not that anybody will be wanting to check any of that stuff out until sometime tomorrow, I imagine.
To wrap things up for now, Happy New Year, everybody!
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January 17, 2007
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Hey y’all. Our blog is getting pounded by a couple of automated comment spammers. This isn’t apparent to you, since comments are queued until I approve or delete them. I’m just having to delete a lot the past few days. Until I have time to modify a bit of source code, I’ve closed comments for pretty much all but this and the previous post. Family members who are registered with passwords can, of course, still post articles. Sorry about the comment restriction, but that’s life on today’s internet. :duck: :umbrella: (Well, heck, and the smilies aren’t working again, too.
Update: got the smilies workin’! (I think)