Note to self:

Play with blog more often. I probably spent a good four hours today tweaking things and trying new stuff. Getting the thumbnail to open in a seperate sized window which will eventually have a guide through archived photos. Those pills are thus marked "The Beginning." Also notice the randomized title banner. I will be adding more of those as the creativity strikes me. And all that with an eight year old knowledge of html! Huzzah! Well, really I had to look it all up on htmlgoodies.com. But man do I know how to use a search engine!!

Two weeks is not a long time.

Apparently it's not just on a personal level that I fail to communicate on a regular basis. This is a global phenomenon.

Hi Blog. I know it's been a while. I'm sorry it took me so long to get back to you... I've just been really busy (total lie.) and there are a bunch of people in town that I haven't seen in a long time (another one.) I'm really not always this bad about this, I swear (lie.) It's just that things have really been hectic. My life is just insane (definite lie.) Plus I was sick for about a week (truth!)

So here's a picture for you, Blog. These are the beautiful little things that made me better.

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I suffered for a week. I went to the doctor once, and they said it was the beginning of a cold. They told me to come back in a week if it didn't get better and it didnt. So I went back and they gave me these wonderful little green morsels of life. After two rounds (one day) the horrid pain in my throat had disappeared. Amazing!

So I'm better now, and I promise I'll keep in touch as often as I can from now on, ok?

See you soon, Blog.

Love,
Peter

Premiere

The idea was that I wanted a place to publish photos. And when I say "publish", I mean "show all my friends". And so I've done just that. I have created a blog. Though I can hardly even credit myself with having done that. I followed the steps to have some expensive program create a blog for me. Which will work just fine.

It makes me realize why so many people are doing this as of late. It's ridiculously simple (to do it this way..) and you can have the ears of the world. (Or at least pretend to.)

I have for a long time considered blogs to be self indulgent, narcissistic rambling similar to what goes in the majority of private journals. Except now you're asking all your friends to read it. Here's what I ate for breakfast. Here's what music I'm listening to. Here's a story about this guy I like that is dating my friend.

Here's how much I care: .....

But in discussing this with a good friend of mine, I realized that it's not blogs themselves that irritate me so, it's the stupid people creating them.

There are terrible websites out there, just as there are terrible blogs, just as there are terrible stores.

But what can you do to stop any of this? Nothing.

And on the other hand, there are fantastic blogs out there written by witty, intelligent people. Not to mention witty, intelligent nerds.

So not all is lost.

Just my dignity.

Testing.

Amazing. All that code, and all I'm really going to do is fill out forms. How easy. How lame. Let's see what I can do.