Nothing in Particular
I recently watched the movie, Catch and Release. The main female character is “Gray,” played by Jennifer Garner. That same day, I cracked open a new novel (which you’ll hear about on Sunday) with a male secondary character named “Gray.”
I don’t know anyone named Gray.
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My mp3 player is less than a year old, but there’s already a short in the earphone wire. If I hold perfectly still, I get continuous sound through both ear pieces, but if I move around at all, then the sound cuts in and out of both pieces. I’m never sitting still when I listen to the mp3 player, which probably explains the short to begin with.
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We’ve got someone running for State House named “Cheezem.” If that guy’s not handing out cheese on some street corner every afternoon during rush hour, I think he’s missing a great advertising opportunity.
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Some time ago, Mike inadvertently made our computer screen saver a random slide show of all the images on our computer. Now and then, pictures pop up that I’ve forgotten about or that I want to see again, but then I can’t find them on the computer. I’ve been looking for an image (or series of images–there’s never just one) I call “purple mountains majesty” that popped up one day. Mike knows the one I mean. We took it in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I haven’t found it yet.
But I did find this one, which I wanted for my Rock Kick, but failed to track down until recently.

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Joan Hawley Wrote,
Hi Jen,
Looooooove the picture!!!!
Love your cheese suggestion. I immediately thought of cheez-its.
Hugs,
Joan
Link | October 8th, 2008 at 1:06 am
Becca Wrote,
You really have to tell us where you took that. What a fabulous picture. You two have way too much fun! CheezIts would be perfect.
Link | October 8th, 2008 at 4:08 am
Shelly Wrote,
I want to get inside of the rock, too! Is there room inside for all of us?
Link | October 8th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Jen Wrote,
Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island, Australia. There was a surprising amount of room in there; I wanted to sleep there. Definitely room for a third person.
Link | October 8th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Anne Young Wrote,
Hi Jen,
I would recommend using iGoogles Picasa photo application for organizing your pictures. It takes about 15 minutes to download on a dial-up connection. The good part is that it will collect every single image on your computer and list it in a directory with thumbnail images. It handles video, scanned images and digital with ease. You should be able to find your purple mountains easily.
Link | October 10th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Jen Wrote,
Thanks, Anne. You’re right, Picasa is great for collecting images from the nether regions of our computer. The problem is that there are so ding-dong many. Thousands of them. Over the weekend, we downloaded almost 200 more from Mike’s camera. They’re numbered, not captioned or keyworded.
I don’t think there’s a fast or easy way to deal with all our images (and by “our” I mean “mostly Mike’s”). We do what we can cataloging significant pics (time sucker!), but after that, we’re left to wade through a sea of images.
There are worse things to have to wade through.
Link | October 13th, 2008 at 4:57 pm