When life is unsweet
OH GREAT, SO THEY FRICKING SIT ON EACH OTHER AFTER THEY GET POSTED. THEY LOOKED FINE IN THE EDITING WINDOW. THAT’S GREAT. THAT’S REALLY, REALLY, GREAT. I’M SO GLAD I’M LEARNING TO POST PHOTOS. IT’S SO MUCH EASIER AND SIMPLER AND LESS OF A STRAIN THAN WRITING LOTS OF TEXT AS WELL AS CREATING INTERESTING VARIETY SO THIS BLOG DOESN’T GET BORING AND STUCK IN ANY RUTS. KILL ME. KILL ME NOW.
I’m going to bed. With a book. And it better be a good one.
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What do you mean by the picture sitting on the other? I see two photos in each entry, at a downward diagonal rather than horizontally arranged, but I took that as artistic photo placement, and not persnickety problematic blog rearranging said photos. Or did you mean to have three photos in each?
I don’t know if it means anything, but when I click on the rss thing on top, the pictures are next to each other in a nice neat line of beautiful beautiful roses!
hmmmmm.
Well, goodnight, then!
Have a good sleep! [and a good read before that!]
–Julia
They’re still weird on my screen, they’re just LESS weird. And they *move around* in an unsettling way. Sigh.
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Aha. You unscreened AND replied. And here I was, actually believing that you meant it when you said “I’m going to bed”. The capital letters not only lent a sense of annoyance, but the change to lowercase after all that emphatic-ness seemed to hint at a certain immediacy as well. At first I was sad. Then felt terribly selfish and glad that you might actually get some proper rest, even if it would have been brought on by anger at uncooperative photos.
I should know by now that when you say: I am going to bed, you mean eventually, in a few hours. Maybe. And when you say that you can’t make computers work– well, you do seem to encounter difficulties fairly regularly, but then, I do too. And you manage to figure out what is wrong and fix it, usually. So you can’t be as bad as you make out to be. Oh well. That doesn’t sound half as congratulatory or encouraging as I meant it to be. But I have used up my quota of exclamation points and things for the day, I think.
Okay, that’s all. Aside from repeating how wonderful the roses look. Even if the photos were frustrating to post. I appreciate that you did post them. :)
–Julia
This is a ll a part of what I referred to in today’s entry about learning NOT TO WIND MYSELF UP. *Lots* of things that do go wrong are FIXABLE. Earth to McKinley, come in please. :)
p.s.
CHOCOLATE
HUGS
MORE CHOCOLATE
TEA with lots of yummy honey in it.
broccoli- you did say it was your favorite vegetable, yes? … maybe broccoli FIRST, then hugs, chocolate, hugs, chocolate, chocolate, good books, happiness, wonderful weather in which to simply relax in garden, chocolate, sleep, feeling better-ness, [good health, I suppose, is better than "feeling better-ness", but the latter is much more something I would say. and makes more sense.] content and well-behaved, healthy hellhounds who eat properly and so on, ummm. good happy wonderful delightful things. more hugs, chocolate. then the tea with honey.
there you go.
feeling better yet?
:)
–Julia
The ten minutes *sitting down in my garden* in beautiful just-right afternoon light-and-temperature was surprisingly rejuvenating. :) thank you!
You are not alone – sending happy smiley computer vibes! My secret? After hours, literally hours and hours, I find that my scanner will give me larger photos without a large irregular white surround if I preview the scan, and then actually perform the scan. It doesn’t matter what else I do, the scanner refuses to speak to me unless I do this.
It feels like Heyer England – the formalities have to be observed, and if you don’t know the formalities then woe betide. Or Cranford, when that poor young doctor was pleasant to everyone and nearly lost love and livelihood for ignorance of “local interpretation”
Give me Cranford over computers any day :)
wishing you lots of buttery gloopy eggs in the morning
Give me Cranford over computers any day :)
******** Absolutely. :)
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Take a deep breath and smell the roses!! We can see the pictures fine!! :) :)
For goodness’ sake, stop asking us to kill you when you know perfectly well that we will NOT. Most of us won’t at least. Besides, from what I see, you seem to be winning your battle with technology. Actually, the pictures look rather nice and well positioned to me. They aren’t on top of each other or anything. Good job!
Yes, Peter gets very cross when I say Kill me. Ah well. I suppose I don’t want you to really. :) I went back and ‘edited’ the photos again after I wrote that and didn’t actually DO anything because behind the scenes there wasn’t anything TO do. When I came back out again they were behaving themselves better, but they’re still sitting on top of ‘categories’. Sigh.
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It always makes me think of that old Looney Toon where Daffy and Bugs are arguing about who Elmer Fudd should shoot, and Bugs manages to twist it around so Daffy ends up screaming “Thyoot me now! I inthitht that you thyoot me now!” BLAM. :)
Ah, here it is.
YES, EXACTLY. (Thank you. :)) I used to say I was going to throw myself in the sea, but we live inland. I did use to say I was going to throw myself in the pond, but you’d have to *hold me down.* Third House has a pond, I could dust that threat off again. . . . :)
:(
*hugs*
*offers chocolate*
(For what it’s worth, I think the photos look lovely the way they are.)
As I say, they *move around.* I’ve been back to CHECK a couple of times and . . . it’s nothing to do with me! It’s the photo fairies!
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How weird! They really do look fine for me. No amount of refreshing the page or resizing the window will make them move.
It’s my blog so it has to torture me I guess. Fortunately I have BLOGMOM.
They look fine, Robin. Even if they’re not quite how you wanted them, it’s not worth stressing over any further! :)
They really WERE sitting on top of each other when I first posted them, at least on my screen.
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They are nicely laid out, and very pretty. No killing the Robin. *Sends hugs and virtual champagne*
Who killed Cock/Mistress Robin?
No one did–they fed her champagne and she went home fizzing. :)
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Don’t get stressed about the pictures!!!
The roses are GORGEOUS on my computer screen and they don’t look squished or on top of each other at all.
Yes, thanks to Blogmom!!!
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??? They look fine here. (Using Firefox, v.2.0.0.14, on Windows XP)
Blogmom sorted them out!
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You know, despite all the technology which tends to mess up and get in the way, the roses do look beautiful. Congratulations on having really beautiful roses.
But the roses are beautiful. Who cares how they are situated?
Anyone who does is obviously not worth paying attention to, right??
You seem to have encountered what we used to call an undocumented feature of your software. Although now that the manufacturers are too cheap to provide manuals, it’s probably fair to call most of their features undocumented.
I have been working on one of the documented features of my new van, setting up its hands-free phone system before I hit the road for Massachusetts. The manual is definitely helpful but a little sketchy when it comes to telling the user how the system will actually work while the car is in motion. Case in point: experimentation revealed that the nice dial-using-voice-tag system won’t work unless the “telephone book” screen is visible, and it won’t let you bring up that screen while you are moving because you are supposed to be looking at the road, not at a screen on the dashboard. You would think that this fact would be printed in big letters in the manual. SURPRISE. (But then, maybe it is, in the Japanese version; translation offers whole new possibilities for steering people wrong.)
Mme. Gregoire is a lovely rose and the pictures are beautiful. My crabapple trees are just about at bloom stage–hopefully they will pop before Saturday, or they’ll be finished before I get home–and my slow camera should be up to taking pictures of something rooted. (Digital cameras: offering yet another non-intuitive interface. Mine has been flashing some unidentified icon at me, in red, when I turn it on. ??? Why not a WORD?)
Oh yes, blossom photos please! And digital camera icons–ARRRRRRRGH!!!! And TRANSLATED MANUALS! MORE ARRRRRGH!!!!!
You’re going to MA *again*? Is this puppy related?
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Hmmm … this appears to be Hellhound behaviour….
http://ihasahotdog.com/2008/05/22/funny-dog-pictures-in-something-here-smell
;) Of course you would have your hands too busy to actually have the *camera* around at that point in time! LOL
Of course you would have your hands too busy to actually have the *camera* around at that point in time
****** This is a BIIIIG problem. I finally remembered to take a camera with me on our walk this morning . . . and what am I supposed to DO with it??? Barring the third hand from somewhere.
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I wondered if this might be soothing (I hope)?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/#game=bluepeterpupworld
Unfortunately it keeps CRASHING. Obviously there are hellhounds involved. :)
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Very nice pictures; I especially like the last one (the top one in madame iii). Very elegant and all of the colors work well together.
I have ROSES. I knew that this was theoretically the end result of cultivating rose bushes, but it is still exciting. Once my housemates get back with the digital camera, I’ll try to take pictures and post them on flickr. Although by that point in time the nicest one will probably be past her prime. But there are real roses!
Of course, I have a lot to do in the rose garden area. I discovered (not that this was any big surprise) that WEEDS like rose food TOO. I swear, I looked away for just a week, and all of a sudden the weeds were as high as my jeans pockets.
Congratulations!
Yes, the better your garden, the better the weeds.
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