Gloating

Here is portion of the gift baskets given as prizes in individual drawings. Always lots of neat stuff. After signing up for quite a few I realized that it could be a problem getting some of them home on the airplane. Some of these baskets were huge! So I not only quit signing up, but began to hope that I didn't win. That worked ... I didn't win anything this year. This just goes to show that Kathryn's discussion on the secrets of the Secret about positive thinking and bringing things to you also works in the opposite manner. ON THE OTHER HAND Jenny, as usual, won a basket. Unfortunately I don't know the name of the author who had put the basket out. But, Jenny has managed to win something every year that we have gone to RT! ::grumble, grumble, grumble::

I did this straight from Picasa and it sure worked a lot faster. I'm learning ... slowly but surely! Here are 4 of my room mates from RT in Houston. Left to right ... Tanya, Jenny, Zo and Cindy. A great looking group of women! They did costumining and I did picture taking! More on RT later.

I should stay off ebay!

I had planned to order an ebook reader tonight. NOT going to happen for at least a month, providing I stay off ebay! I just won two tea cups and saucers ... so, no more on the credit card till that gets paid! Gorgous tea cups and saucers though!

I've been looking at the ebookwise reader and was planning to get it untill I got hung up with the cup and saucer bit on ebay. ::sigh:: NEVER should have gone looking there! If I had just stuck to checking out ebook readers I'd have been okay. I must say that the "savings" on the readers at ebay are not substantal enough to get me to buy there. I think I would prefer buying through ebookwise.com But I don't know whether to go ahead and get one with a memory card or wait and see if I can get a memory card cheaper later. They only show cards up to 128mb. I wonder if you can use higher mb cards?

I've been trying to get some pictures of RT up on the blog, but so far I've not had a lot of luck. Tomorrow I think Sherry and I will go to the Coffee House and I'll take the laptop and try again with high speed internet. Of course, they are calling for storms which usually means I can't get on the internet even at the coffee house. So, we'll see ...

Geese part 2

You should have seen me getting that shot of these geese and several others. I kept inching closer and closer all the while listening to Larry saying "you had better watch it" and "geese are NOT friendly" along with several "be careful's" But I got a few good shots. The river is bank full and I think we are still under a flood watch until tomorrow night. Today was simply gorgeous! Unfortunately, I was not out with a camera.

Actually, I was really surprised when I got that picture up in the blog. It took a good twenty minuets if not longer to load. This has all led to a "I've GOT to have high speed NOW" syndrome. I've got two editing programs on here. One is simple and FREE (Picasa) and the other is adobe photoshop (which I will need classes on!) The photography has taken over everything I do online these days. I think I'm also going to try and get a larger monitor to work with the photo's on. Of course, that's along with getting another longer lens, and a few other little accessories for the camera. Adding TiVO to the television, getting new glasses and working on getting the basement set up so I can move the computer down there and get high speed internet so I can work on photo's as well as work on scrapbooking projects .... lots of ideas, less time and even less money!