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I just spent the last few hours integrating the photo album with the rest of the site. It blends in now very nicely (identically). For what it’s worth, the thumbnail generator is also now XHTML compliant. Things just seem to work better when they follow the standards.
If you head over to the the photo album and still don’t notice a change then you may need to “Refresh” your browser. This is usually done by hitting F5 on the keyboard or sometimes Ctrl+R will also work.
This past week I’ve felt extremely drained. It’s as if all the energy from my mind, body, and spirit has been sapped away by some inexplicable force. I’ve got post-election blues.
Clark County decided to vote against a proposition that would have restored public transit service from the cuts that were previously made a few years ago. They saw it as another tax increase (.03 on $10), where others saw it as a necessity for survival. Now the service will be reduced to a mere fraction of what it was a few years ago. Every week I ride the bus the school and visit with the elderly and handicapped who preffer not to drive. At least once during the week somone in a wheelchair or electronic scooter uses a bus I’m on (all of which are equiped with kneeling hydrolics). Everyday in The Columbian I read articles from readers that urged voters to consider the elderly and disabled when they voted on this. I thought it was a sure foot-in, and I excitedly looked forward to January when all routes would run one hour later. I never dreamed that people would be so insensitive, so selfish, so ignorant. But they are.
This week, as I ride the bus, I feel shame when I look at the other passengers; not because I voted against it, but because I couldn’t do more. Democracy fails when the people under it stop looking out for each other, and focus on themselves.
I wrote this essay for my English 101 class. The purpose was to tell about an experience when we revisited a place or time in our life. I chose to talk about my history with Starbucks, what took me away from it (and California), and then what I observed when I came back.
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Welcome to our new online journal! We’ll update it from time to time and let everyone know how we are doing!
The Images pages haven’t dissapeared… look at the upper-right section of this page and you will the see the photo album under the Portal section. That will take you to the entire image archive.
Bear with us a bit while we get adjusted to this new logging system. It’s not like others that we’ve used – but still very nice!