Monday, September 08, 2003
Posted a few times on the TechTv message boards tonight and read a plethora of other contributions. My dissertation ( 9/6/2003 ) on... how to add an image to a website was well received by the poster.
I've another project that I've volunteered for. Gail and I had been sailing ( garage sales ! ) and we met a gal named Bea who was interested in some information on:
Glass slides - vintage: "Stereopticon (?) slides and viewer (works?)
maybe 200 total: black and white, and colorized
maybe 2" high X 3" wide
Regional example: 59 Pearl Street, N.Y.C.
Religious example: Jesus holding lamb with Bible verse: "He leadeth me... "
Period example: "Slum" children titled in pencil
This will give me a chance to exercise my Google fingers !!! Also, if anyone knows anything about the glass slides and viewer, please e-mail me at: bobbynichols@earthlink.net - and thank you in advance!!!
I purchased a cute little gift box for $0.50 USD, and a few days later my in-laws purchased a redwood picnic table and two benches for $25 USD from Bea. She even threw in a free kitty bed for my researching for her.
Strong drama with my brother-in-law ( Kenny ), and daughter, and girl friend^s, and associates... wish I could relate to y'all ( tease-tease ). Our little corner of the world makes "Payton Place" look like the "Fairly Odd Parents"... on quaaludes.
The family had fried chicken al fresco with asparagus and mashed potatoes and tomatoes and corn on the cob... all womped up by Gail and her father, Larry. Yum !
Animosity still apparent between my son-in-law, Richard... and my father-in-law, Larry, and I. Richard is extremely thin skinned when dealing with innocent banter... he can dish it out - but he can't take it as the old saying goes.
The "kids" ( my daughter Chrissy and her husband Richard, and their children David and Ashley ) are staying... the "kids" are going... the "kids" are staying... the"kids" are going... who knows ???
My truck has not been being worked on all this time...
Richard's father Alvin showed up shortly after dinner and related an eerie course of events. Seems Alvin and another of his sons, and his son-in-law were up in the high country about 7000 feet elevation between here and Tahoe somewheres four-wheeling it up and down the mountains and settled down to camp and turned in. Alvin heard a sound and looked out the tent and saw "something" that yelled/roared like something out of Hades that he couldn't identify. He said his son also got a look and managed to get his hair all stood up on end in terror. Alvin's pretty shook up. He's no piker when it comes to the outdoors in the least... very experienced. My minds eye pictured a Banshee or some other unearthly creature. This was no "Bigfoot" story either. Who knows ? Here's my take...
"Hell on the Mount"
Whilst camped in the mountains
not a care in the least
bedded down for the night
not aware of the Beast
Heard a rustle of a sound
woke me up from my sleep
out I peered from my tent
what I saw made my flesh creep
Unearthly figured
all swathed in gloom
with a din like a banshee
I felt nigh my doom
My son seeing me thus
ventured his gaze about
I tried to warn him
but couldn't shout
He froze and was stricken
with horror and fright
turned pale as the moon
on this moonless night
Our companion then roused
startled by our imminent dismay
gave call to our tormentor
not comprehending the foray
Wits gone from my mind
tearing back through the tent
the wraith shrieked forth again
my soul thoroughly rent
We no longer tarried
grabbing no kit nor provision
fearing per-fervid chase
to carry us to perdition
I won't go back to the mount
that horrifying black region
where dwells the creature unknown
in demonic legion
: Bobby Nichols 9/8/2003
Well... that was fun... arduous, but fun ! I really need to show the poem to Alvin when I see him. I'll show Richard tomarrow/today?... good lord it's 3:17 a.m. already. This time I copied and saved the BLOG in NOTEPAD just in case of hic-ups from their server. Need to save the last N number of posts for posterity as well.
God bless... and good night !
C'ya.
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