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No step returns from the silent shore
coming at the open door
far away from kindred torn
Month: April 2012
Condensation
Condensation
M
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My Annie dear
you lift your eyes
And trace the lines,
now dark, now bright
L
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Like the murmur of bees
Leads down to the sea
The night, my dear, comes to me
Instant Review: Zenni Optical
For $11.90 I got leopard print glasses that fit *perfectly* right out of the box. Prescription is fine. They came in a cheapo plastic glasses case, which is actually more than I was expecting considering the price. Also a nice sized microfiber cleaning cloth (bigger than the one that came with my Ray-Bans).
Standard shipping is SLOW (ordered on 3/23 and received on 4/6). Which is fine, but you might want to upgrade if you’re in a hurry.
I am VERY happy and will be purchasing more cheap-ass glasses from them in the future.
Instant Review: PicMonkey
If you use Flickr, you’ve probably also used Picnik to edit your photos. Picnik is closing in a couple of weeks, so Flickr has replaced it with another service called Aviary. Which I have tested and do not like one little bit. But hallelujah! The Picnik gang has a new home at PicMonkey. Most of the old Picnik actions are available there (Ortonizer lives!), some of the actions I wasn’t too impressed with have been tweaked and improved, and there are some pretty fabulous new recipes (Daguerreotype, ahoy!).
It’s not as handy, because it’s not tied directly to Flickr, but I love it so much that I do not care. Right now, everything seems to be free, but I’m guessing the service will become tiered as they gain momentum. That seems reasonable, and when that happens, I’ll be buying a subscription. I like it that much.
K
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Kind dreamer,
whose vessels have voyaged in vain,
who woke where fondest memories reign
J
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Just a wish
at break of day,
The stars are fading
in the gray
I
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I will dream in darkness
beyond the sea
And this
is all the world to me
1940 US Census
1940 Census Atlanta, Georgia, ED160-158, page 10, lines 58-60.
IT’S HERE! I wouldn’t recommend trying to access it right now, because their servers are getting hammered. Things should calm down soon, though. I did manage to find my grandma Jeanne, my great-grandma Nell, and my great-great aunt Margaret, but it wasn’t easy. Even knowing their street address, I had to look through three different schedules to find them, because there are no transcriptions available yet.
red paper boat 