Endings and beginnings

[jhetley]

Sorta goes with the solstice, I guess. Consolidated the chapter files of SIGNATURES into one 95,000 word, 450 page hunk. We've hacked at it and niggled at it and now I'll print the latest version off and proofread it again, trying to find those sneaky bastard errors that I've read straight over five times already. Then send it off to Nice Agent Lady.

And the trees whimpered in fear.

Wandered around this afternoon in the Stephen King Memorial Laundry, avoiding drifts of hazardous waste and pitfalls and the occasional rat, preparation for actually drawing up some apartment units to fit inside. Nothing wrong there that a gallon of kerosene wouldn't cure. If I could post pictures to this free account, I'd show you some of the forty-fifty I took, proving that I am not, for once, exaggerating.

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[wcg.livejournal.com]

Jim, if you want to you could send me the pics and I'll upload them to my LJ pics area. Then you could link to them.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Bill, at 1.4 meg per photo (+/-) we'd both be in our graves and rotted by the time I could send them over dialup. Thus do my jests sometimes twist 'round and bite me on the ass...

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

There are a number of free sites where you can put your pictures. Once they're there, you can use them in your LJ postings. I do that fairly often. I use my account at my.opera.com to store my pictures. (If you want to take a look to see what it is like, my pictures are here: http://my.opera.com/kknight/albums/.

I'd also recommend shrinking large pictures before using them for this purpose. I usually use a 20% compression on jpegs and I resize them to something less than 640x480. Most graphics manipulation programs will allow you to do those two things, even if they aren't fancy. (Irfanview will do both, and it is really more of a graphics viewer than manipulator. It is free and highly recommended in my opinion.)