So, I haven’t put up a significant post in a while, some would say ever, and I really haven’t posted any photos in a while.

I’m currently trudging through a pile of magazines that seems endless. Maybe I should seek help for my magazine addiction. I’m about two chapters into The Golden Compass, and I’m finding that I really like it, but then another magazine says, “No, read ME!”

Christmas was alright, and I slept through New Years. New Years has just never been that exciting to me. Dan and I each received a ten dollar gift card to Borders, which I used online to get Wordpress for Dummies and DragonArt. I am sorely unimpressed with DHL’s delivery service. I ordered both books separately (which is a whole ‘nother story), and the first book arrived about 10 days late, while the second book came two days before the first one was due to arrive. Why one book needed to go from Arizona to Ohio to Utah to Montana, while the other only went from Arizona to Montana, I’ll never know.

I had the distinct pleasure of restoring our computer to factory settings. The sfc /scannow command yielded a lovely corrupt file it couldn’t repair which was causing software to stop running. I tried every possible fix I could find online, which included a system restore to a point saved on December 29. That was a mistake which caused I-don’t-know-how-many registry errors. If I try to look on the bright side, it’s almost like getting a new computer all over again. Wait, there’s all that advertising to remove, Windows Vista security to turn off, patches to install, yada yada. There is no bright side. None at’all.

Ah well, it’s done now. And I always have cats to entertain me.

I missed the shot of Maddy pawing at the monitor, but I did catch her licking her chops. She and Max have been quite fascinated with the Aqua zone screen saver.

Edit: by request, here’s a short video clip of Maddy and her entertainment (it may not be available immediately):

Dan must have been watching Supergroup on VH1.

This is also not the video I thought it was, but hey, it’ll do.

I’m still low on material, but I have since moved all photo files from CD to Hard drive. Before, I was using my own make shift filing system to organize photos, which was just fine. However, I’m finding that Adobe Photoshop Album is great. It’s nice to just right-click and save a photo to a collection, and then go into a collection and organize tags.

Have a great Monday!

Just a photo of Maddy that I like.

(Edit: 01/20/07 — Taken at former home in C-U, Illinois)

Bella and Maddy (Madeline) at our former home in Champaign-Urbana, IL.