Wednesday, March 31, 2004

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So I’m off work this morning, trying to ferret out a computer virus that has bested the bestest minds Puget Sound has to offer, and I’m not making much headway but as a “test” (heh) I decided to get on line and try to upload an image - to see how slow the computer was to respond, don’t you know, and whether I got fatally spammed in the interim.  So far, pretty good!  Meantime I seem to have uploaded a few images from a recent trip to the conservatory that I can share with you.  Let’s see:
This is a utility pole near my house - 10th and Balboa, I believe.  The original is about four times bigger. 

This is one of those flowery things that clog up the works in the conservatory.  Once again, I cropped this down and reduced the size but the original is much bigger. 

I got a few other decent shots while I was wandering around that day, and I’m slowly learning some of the tricks I can do - more slowly than I’d like, with the computer woes I’ve been having.  (dang but I may have gotten it this time - ten minutes on line with only one popup?  COULD I BE THIS GOOD?  Answer: no, probably not.  The flood is building behind the rickety old dam and I’ll be fighting the deluge again soon I’m sure.) Anyway, enough pictures for now, but it did occur to me as I was walking around with my camera slung insouciantly over a shoulder, the watchpocket of my levis abulging with my tidy little cellphone, wishing idly for an iPod (soon, soon, my pet), that I’m addicted to digital bling.  There’s a shop on my commute to work called Mr. Bling Bling that does up shiny choppers, but that’s not really my style.  However, I wouldn’t mind turning a few heads on the bus with several thousand gigabytes of digital capacity that would make me into some sort of cybernetically omnipotent datalord.  See this is what happens when I think I fixed my computer.  Time to log off again before my bubble is burst, or worse yet, I become even more monomaniacal.