Hmmmmm welcome visitors?

Remember the good old days when you’d find a really cool website with really cool photos? You’d bookmark it and go back and visit it again. Maybe email your friends the link. If you were really fabulously geeky you’d add it to your web site’s links or *gasp* blog it. Today you might facebook it or tweet it.

Wow. Those were the wild and wooly days.

Now it’s a new world. Now when I see a blip in traffic here and look to see where it’s coming from I find a link to Pinterest and lo and behold links to a handful of my images. Pinned like stiff butterflies to someone’s board. I mean someone’s online pinboard.

Dear Pinterest folks. Folks with blogs and websites like to know that you visited, that you enjoyed what they wrote, their work. So if you’re visiting, would you please stop and say hello? and then how about sharing the URL rather than pinning me like some freaking bug?

Thank you.

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Did you miss me?

After yesterday’s post blitz, today must have seemed quiet! I spent part of my lunch trying to nudge my NaNoWriMo plot ahead and later as I was driving home decided it probably wasn’t a very good direction. I’ll think about it some more.

Tonight I did sew some more strips to squares and realized it had all gotten tangled up in the thread going to the machine… some goofy quilter had something to do with that, I suppose. So I ironed those bits and stacked them up: 68 squares to add to the pile after phase two is done.

Not sure why it finally occurred to me to lay them out for pressing in groups of 10, rather than any old number. But it did make them easy to count after they were nice and flat. I’ll take whatever small breakthroughs I can get.

Tried to watch the Nebula awards. Good in concept (being able to watch it online) bad in execution (ustream has an annoying habit of breaking in with ads at the worst possible moment) and strange in its level of strange technical problems (how many people need to have problems getting their powerpoint going on a screen before you think that… well… couldn’t they be just a little more geeky or something?)

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Process

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#Birkies #Haiku

You can’t say you weren’t warned this might happen:

New birkies!

I’d kill for those shoes
I’d take them off your dead feet;
they look so comfy.

you’re standing too close.
you threaten to take my shoes:
my precious birkies.

You look at my shoes
you decide they look comfy
you’re standing too close.

you, suburban mom
remarking on my birkies
making fun of me?

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Things that make me pull over

and take pictures. Not always sunsets. Sometimes it’s that my eye is really drawn to polka-dotty things especially if there’s some randomness to it. Seen on the dirt road near where I live:

dandelion dots

dandelion dots

dandelion dots

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