quick reminder as to the initial purpose of blogs...to link to other sites. I write this as an introduction to the Third Annual Weblog Awards

Looking for an opportunity to write. This just may not be it. Scanning images that are too large for the web, I am. It's ludicrous. I'm so eager to get the images online - it just makes me laugh when I try to open one. Days later the photo downloads, etc...

Cornish shots are the focus right now. I must've scanned thirty tonight - somewhere near thirty.

accidently deleted this:
Saturday, January 11, 2003

Whoo hoo! bought a replacement scanner today!!! I'm short one photo editing program, so there isn't much to show for it, but it's only a matter of time now. I have one comment overall: IT SCANS NEGATIVES. I'm excited about this.

My photoshop bombed and I don't have the program cd anymore. Many things have been mislaid in moves from here to there. So, while I gather my funds to get a new version - this will have to do.



It's been a full day today. I went to a work conference, on valuing the diversity of women, cultures, various orientations, etc. Thursday and Friday. I've had significant opportunities to view the different cultures inhabited by men and women in the past few months, this was the capper. I even got to meet with our company's CEO to discuss possible solutions with a bunch of other women. So this conference sent me into information overload. There were speakers who blew my mind and speakers who sent me packing, back to work to get sorted on the new position. Jason showed up to drag me off to a final meeting Friday night - and although I protested his suggestion of a nap before any Friday night festivities, I found myself unconscious until 5:30am this morning. Surprised, we got up and looked around Seattle for an early breakfast joint and ended up cooling our heels in Fremont, while waiting for the earliest opening restaurant. Breakfast rocked, nothing like being the only customers in the joint. It gave us time to plan for our day and the week.


We're expecting a crowd this weekend and are scaling up on kitchen ware and the like. I'm minutes away from a detailed plan for the week, involving many recipes and plans to entertain a dozen or so. Should be a blast and is, in fact, our very first dinner party. There is something to our domesticity that encourages us to keep it to just two of us. So this is new. We have a pretty diverse circle of pals. We looked especially for people who would enjoy each other, of course. It's a gas to invite people over. I brought the polaroid, so I've got snaps of a few of the participants. Delightful folks.


On the down side, we just found out there is a need to make amends with our neighbor/landlord. Her holiday card - signed and everything - is sitting in our still-stuffed full of bills, outgoing mail box. Sigh. I hate when that happens. Our landlord is a great lady - we don't get enough time to hang out with her - so these courtesies are important.


I should move on to the task list - s'all for tonight.

One week back at work. New responsibilities = digging in deep to keep up. I've done some work to schedule everything in and have way more work to do for life to remain meaningful.

Dan came over week before last to work with me on kid-like sketches for the Halloween flick.