Chores

After an active day, fell asleep in the early evening, waking at 2 a.m., and have decided to take a spin around the blog. This is very much a learning curve - how to get the text right (you can't indent paragraphs - that bugs me; I don't like to present walls of words and you need the ocular break) and it's a chore interspersing multiple photographs. Sometimes spacing gets botched. And there's the peculiar feeling that you're really just talking to yourself. Not much feedback. I need that.

Take the photos. The rose pictures were taken fully automatically. A little too washed. If I set the ISO to 200, will that dampen the light? I should think so. What's the story about boosting images from the net? Or linking to videos? A search engine suffices, and I found a site for free clip art. Just before, on another site in a bulletin board, I had to deal with a copyright issue.

Great picture, huh? You can use them privately or educationally for no pecuniary gain so long as you credit the maker and source. This is from Wikipedia. Looks so much like a Steichen but it's not, and may well be by a Daily News stringer. Anyway, I'd like to blow it up and print it to cool off an instant every now and again.

To top it off, I'm still on dial-up ISP at home, so jumping through all the hoops is exaspertin'.

So, is it a learning curve, a heuristic experience, or is it all a waste of time?

And just killing time, I am, until the Mets and the football Cardinals take the field later this morning. Patience has me looking for something to do and fortitude has got me looking around to see I've got some tidying up on the agenda. I could use this device to express my political opinions (I've pretty much got the presidential race distilled to Navy vs. Punks.) or wax poetic (I do write constantly rewritten verse.) or essay upon the conflict I'm having about whether to go to church or to a tavern to watch those games. I'll spare you. Maybe later.

Yes, I'd better clean the kitchen and do a laundry.