April 6, 2006

• gotta share this…

  One day while Mercury was retrograde, March 19, to be exact, Albion, our white cat who looked like this when he was a kitten –

  – was reclining on my bed looking particularly beautiful.  I went
  to get my camera, but when I came back, Cecil (my favorite) had jumped
  onto the bed and onto Albion.  The boys were wrestling until I
  stepped up and startled them.

  They
  stopped wrestling to see what I was up to, and that’s when I got this
  picture.  It wasn’t the picture I had in mind, but I was willing
  to accept it.

  Then Cecil got up and came over to check out the camera up close and personal.

  That’s when I got this picture.

  Then I picked Cecil up and draped him over my shoulder and captured the shot of Albion that I had wanted in the first place.

  I was going to post that pic that day, but when I tried to save it to
  my hard drive, I got an error message saying that some bit of memory
  that was being requested couldn’t be read.  I tried it
  again.  Then I restarted the computer and tried it again. 
  Then I consulted the OS help menu and the one on the camera
  software.  Over the next few days, I tried it again a few times,
  on the theory that although electronic glitches don’t often fix
  themselves, sometimes they do,  stranger things have happened, and
  it can’t hurt to try.  Finally, I vowed to try it again after
  Mercury went direct, left the little Kodak sitting idle, and used my
  Fuji for a while.

  This evening, what with Mercury no longer retrograde and my brainfog
  having cleared out, I was preparing to do a reading at KaiOaty’s
  place.  I opened  xTools and started the page as usual, with
  the subject’s xanganame in link form, and couldn’t get my delete key or
  backspace key to work either in the “edit HTML” mode or out of it, to
  trim down that link text to just the name.  Okay, that’s happened
  before… restart computer….  Waiting for it to come back up, I
  looked at the card layout and thought what a hassle it would be to get
  the big Fuji out and go through its menus and bells and whistles to
  take the pic of the spread to post with the reading.

  Then I saw the little Kodak sitting there on the computer desk where it
  had been since the last time I had tried and failed to save those
  pics.  I remembered that I had vowed to give it one more try after
  Mercury went direct, and…

  

  …there’s Albion, in all his cross-eyed splendor.

  Now, to sign out here, sign in on KaiOaty and see if I can post that reading.
  

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