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More pics from summer 2006 in West Texas. Jut camera play. Some, from the car, ’cause we’re dorks like that.

I’m a rather private person in some ways, and not so much in others. I have lots of friends who don’t hesitate to share all their pictures online and never once think about it. And, as the person my family turns to for technology, I’m always saying “let me just put that online and you can get it there” when I’m taking shots at events. Then I get home and I get all privacy concious. Do I want the whole web to be able to view my family pics?

Not like it’s anything weird or embarrasing. Family photos, vacations. A large collection of vintage Hedges family photos. A disturbing amount of cat pics. When I roam around on other people’s sites, I always enjoy clicking through their pictures. It tells me a lot about them as people beyond the code or article I’m reading. And I know if my other family members had their pictures online, I would just love it.

I think the thing for me is, that living as a ‘public woman’ invites a fair amount more attention than a man, and in no small ways, this canbe very dangerous and scary It’s a bit creepy looking at how my stats jump anytime I post a photo. Combined with how easy it is to cyberstalk someone. I’m not hiding from anyone. I’m just … private. Which is why I probably wouldn’t want to use Flikr or some other service much. And I’m safety conscious about being a single woman.

That said… I’ve been promising to do this for a long time, so here is the start to my online photo collection.

This is a set of photos I took of the big sky of Amherst, West Texas, at my grandmother’s home a few summers ago. I spent the summer cleaning up the house after she and my aunt passed, leaving a 16 room house filled to the brim with ephemera of a life of teaching and shopping for Christmas. It was a very temperate summer; I saw wildflowers in late June - the latest I’ve ever seen them (in fact I don’t ever remember seeing them) in this part of the panhandle. We had several amazing storms roll across the plains that turned the sky brilliant shades of red, purple, black, green, and blue, and these are the photos I took.

Yes. I have been a bad blogger. No updates lately.
It’s summer. It’s 100+ degrees. I work at home. The kid is out of school……it’s down time. Being the daughter, granddaughter, niece, and cousin of teachers, summer has always been a time for refreshing, renewal. Taking stock, cleaning out, freshening up, and resting. Still is.
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Ok, so I splurged this morning when I saw that the Indigo Girls were playing at Stubbs tonight, and bought a ticket for myself and one for Chelsea. She’s not up yet but hopefully she will want to go. I don’t care, if not, I’ll ask a friend.
OMG I am SOOOOO fangirling. I have been [...]

Your company may not have a need for a website that is being published to on a daily basis and you maybe quite happy with your existing website design. But a website, just like a car or a home, requires a bit of maintenance, upkeep, and upgrades to stay current and most useful to you. [...]

Thank heavens for silly cousins who ignore my warnings to not forward me crap. I never post this kind of stuff, but it made me laugh, and I don’t LOL much, for reals. This one nearly made me PMP (pee my pants).

Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk [...]

My latest project has been Call4PilotCars.com, a website for Asherville Pilot Car Express.
The company owners came to me looking for a site that was clean and conveyed modern professionalism with a ‘driving cross country’ feel, got the message across in seconds, and that could be maintained themselves with some training. With little content and no [...]

Chelsea emailed me this link last night…
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/robotics/first/atlanta-finals-2008/
LBJ (aka The Purple Haze, aka Team 418) is on the Curie field.

Everybody over 20 should envy the LASA Robotics team, who are headed to the First competition after school today. I’m not sure they realize how cool that is, or what an opportunity it is for them as individuals, or how much they will cherish the memories of such trips in the future. Without the hindsight [...]

Please, just kill me now. Because I am never ever going to catch up. There are some days that I think to myself :
“Self… You cannot possibly put one more thing to learn on that to do list.”
And then I catch some iffy behavior from visitors poking at wp-admin files on various installations. Mainly, those [...]