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The phrase is more commonly "getting your ducks in a row" but I never really understood the meaning of that and besides, there's a lot more bugs around here than ducks. So here's a perspective study with several moths lined up, more or less, along the heads of nearby plants. I've been thinking of taking up some arty hobby again, after a long lapse, and pictures like this help inspire me. I've not decided what medium to work with tho. I used to do mostly oils with an occasional foray into black monochrome watercolor mixed in. This time, I don't know. Watercolor, acrylic, pastels... I'd love to work with charcoal but I've never shown any talent for it. That's the type of work that I like best. To me it reaches into the soul of the subject being portrayed far more than the colorful but superficial feeling paints and gels.

When I bought my last computer from Dell in September of 2000 it took 3 weeks for the thing to be built and then delivered to me. This time it was a lot quicker. I ordered it Tuesday, it was shipped on Wednesday, and it's out for delivery today. It even passed through Atlanta and Roanoke to visit, at least in an ethereal way, with friends of mine. ;-) Since I'm not at home today, it's possible that DHL won't leave it--however since I live in a quiet remote area the delivery people often do. I guess I'll find out around 6pm when I get home. Update: The DHL person just called to check if I wanted her to leave the computer at the house and I said yes so it'll be waiting for me there. Don't any of you get any ideas and grab it!!!

I finally have had enough of my current computer. It'll be 8 years old in 6 weeks and it's been having issues for years. So far I've always managed to get it to work again but I'm pushing my luck a little too far. I've been having the blue screen of death appear about every third bootup. Now this isn't the first time this has happened but in the past there was usually a reason I could determine for the problem. Often insufficient hard drive space, sometimes incompatible devices would make for boot problems, but this time I have enough open room on the HD, sufficient RAM and no new devices installed. As a result, when I saw mention at Dealsea.com today that Dell was selling a computer for under $300 I finally decided to take the plunge. Dell Inspiron 530N Desktop $274, Aug 26 Dell Home has Inspiron 530N Desktop for $239 + $35 shipping Intel Pentium dual-core E2180 (1MB, 2.00GHz, 800FSB) 2GB, 250GB, DVD Burner, Intel Graphics Accelerator 3100 Ubuntu Linux versio...

I went on a 7 mile hike Sunday and this is all I got you.

These are the ingredients. I'm giving the premade pizza dough from Trader Joe's a try here. It's 99 cents a pound. Not bad. Lots of yummy cheese on this lovely baby. As you can see in the close-up below.

Mood often drives what I eat. Lately I've been grumpy and when that is so, I generally am too lazy to do any cooking. As a result I've had little other than potato chips and Pepsi this past week and a half. And my belly has rejoiced. My body, and more directly--my intestines, really handle candy, soda and naughty things like that quite well. Unfortunately today I decided to cook my first "real food" in the past 12 days. Those burgers over there to the left. Big mistake. HUGE! (I think I lifted that from the shopping scene in Pretty Woman) Tomorrow I go back to salty snacks and soda. At least the burgers tasted really good. :-)