On Red Trees
Every morning for the past week, I’ve woken up early in the morning, walked downstairs to my dining room, set up my computer, and waited for my e-mail (with its dozens of messages per day) to download. As I wait for these e-mails to download, I stare outside the glass patio doors at this red tree that sits on hospital property. The brightness and boldness of the red changes depending on the sun’s location throughout the day, but it sure is appealing to to eye to look at. I’ve been meaning to take a picture of it over the past few days—I’ve just been too lazy to do it.
Earlier today, I joined a blog networking website called BlogCatalog.com. As I was cruising through the listings, I noticed a lot of people had Lori’s blog listed on their blogrolls or in their “neighborhoods” (which are little collaborations of friends and blogs). I picked out about six or so that I felt like reading up on and added them to my Google Reader. That means six new people are getting a comment from some strange guy out in Northern California who they’ve never heard of (if that’s you, um…hi).
Oh, speaking of Google, I tried Google Desktop for Mac. Wasn’t impressed at all—a completely creepy application that totally slowed down my PowerBook G4. Plus, it felt utterly pointless to use—more pointless than Google’s Easter Bunny game. It wasn’t too long before I uninstalled it off the machine.
In my past life, I was a tree or something. If not a tree, something that grew old and didn't move very much. I'm pretty convinced of this.
October 24th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
That just makes me feel lazy. You accomplished something that I haven’t done yet, taking photos of the all the fall colors.
Try taking a photo at the time of sunrise or sunset when it’s nice and orange, then the leaves will be real pretty.
-Alex
October 24th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
@gerbilbox: You are totally right. I forgot to write about it, but I was a bit disappointed that my camera didn’t capture the colors in the way that I’m used to seeing them, but that’s because I took the photo in the afternoon and I’m used to seeing the colors early in the morning. I’ll try the sunrise/sunset thing before fall ends.
October 27th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Really? Wow. Cool. Welcome to BlogCatalog. I guess I need to go over there and figure out how it works other than my original registration and review.
October 28th, 2007 at 10:53 am
@Lori: Yeah, there doesn’t seem to be much going on at BlogCatalog aside from the blog directory. It’s not very MySpacey or Facebooky.