Sunday Almosts

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By rights, I should've lost the 160 photos I took from April 15 through last week. I was lazy about copying them off my camera, and I was lazy about plugging it into my work mac for the first time (to recharge the battery) and it didn't properly unmount, so yesterday when I tried to take photos and the camera said "0 photos" I was more than sufficiently chagrined. But: once we were home, I plugged it in, and iPhoto downloaded all 160 photos. I was still chagrined, but not nearly as sad. (I figure if I'm going to be this sad about losing the photos, I really should pay better attention to them, since some are fairly good photos. With gratitude-mixed-with-chagrin, I hope to make a photo post later this week.)

A more positive near-miss: yesterday melted_snowball, hotcabanasauce, roverthedog and I tried to go to the Toronto Islands for some sunbathing. We got there in excellent time, had a wonderful picnic, and just as we got to Hanlan Point, it started sprinkling. Which wasn't quite unexpected, given the forecast. There were impressive thunderheads to the west and north, and a friend of Tim's checked the current radar map, and it really looked like we were due for a big storm.

So we had a nice walk instead, and caught the ferry back from the main Island, getting onto the boat an hour later as it started raining for real. It was a great walk; the only down side was *all the mobs of people* who were there for dragon-boat races. None of us really enjoyed the crush on the ferry, especially roverthedog who doesn't really like masses of ankles and shoes; but we got out without being too grumpy. And we got pastries and coffee and drove home again and- surprise surprise- I didn't mow because it was raining.

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[beartalon.livejournal.com]

On my second trip to Washington D.C., my (now-ex) partner had a new digital camera. We took a lot of pictures. When we arrived home, we were reviewing them and one needed to be rotated, so I chose the format option.

It didn't even ask "Are you sure (you want to delete all your photos. That's what will happen when you format the entire card)?"

Good bye, Washington, D.C.