I do not feel Quixotic. You have to put on old ill-fitting armor, and read Tirant lo Blanc, and ride around Spain being severely eccentric. My life is complicated enough already.
I have a picture of you and me right next to my computer. We have convention badges on. I'm wearing a button on mine that says, "I've been sent here to study you people," and you are wearing one that has four lines of yellow type on a dark background, but they are too tiny for me to read in the photograph. The badges are blue rectangles in clear holders, and they say "Participant" in the upper left-hand corners. I can't figure out which convention it was, but your hair is short and mine is long, which probably means it was a while ago. Any ideas? (Oh, and you are wearing a shiny red-and-orange-and-other-colors neckwarmer, and something that looks like a band of red paisley trim with blue edges.)
Erik, my picture is part of a Bruneau jasper cabochon -- and thereby hangs a tale. The first time I was going to get onto Live Journal, it occurred to me that I needed a 100-pixel-square picture. What to use? Obviously, a rock. I took some nice rock images and trimmed them down to the required size. I made more than one, because I couldn't make up my mind which to use. They were all pretty. They were so pretty that I made some more. Those were pretty too. I wandered off into the largest single sustained art project I've ever done, which consists of artful arrangements of 100-pixel-square images of rocks, minerals, and fossils, six high eight across, on a 50% gray field. More than a year passed. Now I've got hundreds of -- no, come to think of it, over a thousand -- little square rock images waiting to be thus arranged.
It gave me a lot to choose from when I finally wandered back over to Live Journal.
Elise, if I was wearing those two neckwarmers together, I was still on the GEnie SFRT. Can somebody date that? I'm terrible with dates
I have some more very interesting bits of that huge basalt boulder we found in my yard while excavating while you were up here last; set some fist-sized pieces aside for you. One piece appears to be a lovely chunk of white quartz shot through with pure black mica -- it's a stunner. I keep rescuing it from Dawn, who, I think, wants to start her own collection.
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(I have an idea for icons, but it involves taking pictures and editing them and stuff, and that takes time, so.)
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I have a picture of you and me right next to my computer. We have convention badges on. I'm wearing a button on mine that says, "I've been sent here to study you people," and you are wearing one that has four lines of yellow type on a dark background, but they are too tiny for me to read in the photograph. The badges are blue rectangles in clear holders, and they say "Participant" in the upper left-hand corners. I can't figure out which convention it was, but your hair is short and mine is long, which probably means it was a while ago. Any ideas? (Oh, and you are wearing a shiny red-and-orange-and-other-colors neckwarmer, and something that looks like a band of red paisley trim with blue edges.)
Welcome to the odd cafe that is LJ.
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It gave me a lot to choose from when I finally wandered back over to Live Journal.
Elise, if I was wearing those two neckwarmers together, I was still on the GEnie SFRT. Can somebody date that? I'm terrible with dates
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I have some more very interesting bits of that huge basalt boulder we found in my yard while excavating while you were up here last; set some fist-sized pieces aside for you. One piece appears to be a lovely chunk of white quartz shot through with pure black mica -- it's a stunner. I keep rescuing it from Dawn, who, I think, wants to start her own collection.
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---L.
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