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[browngirl]

But I just wanted to tell you two things.

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day makes me happy. Orion was one of a very few constellations I knew as a child; it's one of a very few one can see from the Bronx.

A student who is so growing up to be Joe Isuzu walked up to me and asked if, if he gave me $1800, he could not go to class today. I laughed uproariously for what had to be a good minute.

Remind me to tell you about the , as of last count, 8 kids who called to ask if class were still going on. It's just a snowstorm, people!

Comments

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

I do like Orion - he guards my front gate!

As for the kids - well, they're kids. Don't you remember the joy of snow days? I do!

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[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Poor kids, with the grownup laughing at them. :)

I didn't really have many snow days, actually. Going to boarding school obviates them, among other things, and when I was little, well, it was fun to watch TV and read instead of school, but I also liked school.

I like the picture, too. :)

Graphics - the "easy" way?????

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I cheated.

Not having any references at hand for fonts or ASKII or whatever, I ...

... wrote myself an email on Excite, choosing "wingdings" as the font, and playing around until I found the symbols I wanted ... snowflake, sun, snowflake ... picked a background color ... picked 2 different text colors and sizes ...

... then emailed it to me at Yahoo! ... where I opened the file, then hit "reply" ... which let me see the coding that created the image I'd made ... and copy it, too ...

... so I pasted that coding into an LJ "comment" ... and used "preview" to tinker (more snowflakes! more lines! change size of snowflakes a little so it all lines up better) until I liked what I had ... and then posted.

Amazing how much work it can be to be lazy, no?

Snow days

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

I loved school when I was a kid .. but still, there was something wonderful about it being cancelled by an act of nature!!!

I can see how boarding schools would tend to pass on the concept, though. (Poor kids! Now, the getting away from the parents part, *that* I would have enjoyed.)