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[[deleted user]]

Very diplomatic Anna. When the L&G shin dig goes ahead, I have offered my abode for shin digging extraordinaire!
I'll help you find your roots too. xj

[Anna]

Not just diplomatic - truth. I've just never spoken to people from both places at the same time. Ain't the world wide web grand?

[[deleted user]]

You said it Anna! I love this virtual world and..now I have a new pal in Alaska...Wicked!

[Anna]

Welcome to my corner of the world - both of you.

[[deleted user]]

Just had a peep at 'Riversong' Anna..cottonwood forests, bears n' bald eagles, likin the sound of it. Looks like a corner of paradise. Lots of inspiration for a writer.

[Anna]

It is indeed a beautiful place. One reason I like working there. I also get to meet some interesting people on occasion, though I'm one of the behind-the-scenes people. Occasionally, I give someone a tour through the gardens. My boss, bless her, also touts my status as an author and sells my book on a shelf there.

[[deleted user]]

OOH! bags a 'garden tour' if I factor in Alaska on my big trip. Love gardening, even joined the local horticultural society, though they tend to be 'laydees who lunch' as opposed to welly wearing gardeners like moi. I've just mostly shrubs and perennials, Sun is a rare commodity here Anna. If you've more pics of the gardens, love to see them. Cool! your book is for sale there, way to go Anna and why wouldn't she call you an author, it's what you are.

[Anna]

Tell me how I can show you my pics and I will. And as for my boss talking about me being an author, yeah, that's what I am, but that's not what I do there. I don't know - I'm flattered but . . . . I think it falls under the heading of "Not used to the distinction"

[[deleted user]]

Anna, Distinction will grow on ya!
Now, I'm useless on explaining about uploading pics but Gabi is a whizz at it, soo go to message no. 18 on her thread (Gabi road) and you'll be in business.
And..Anna,
'If you can speak what you will never hear,
If you can write what you will never see..
You have done rare things'
H.D. Thoreau.
Now..off to skool for me, catchya later.

[Anna]

She uses Photo Bucket and I don't. There's an automated place under photos. I'll try there but I have to wait until late. Pictures and videos really suck up my bandwidth.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Are you on dial-up Anna (I am....so I know what a pain the waiting is, with pics and videos).

[Carol]

Hello, my name is Carol and I have an addiction. I am a grammer and language illiterate. There I have confessed to the world. You all seem like a fun group to attach my wagon to. I am looking forward to perusing though the various threads and adding my two-cents on occassions.

[[deleted user]]

Lovely to meet ya Carol! fairly new here myself..yip! great gals here so saddle up! oops the boys are dotes aswell...xj

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Welcome to the asylum Carol! What is your addiction......words?!

[Carol]

Thanks for the welcome.

[Ruth]

Hi Carol. Glad to see you here. This is a fun group.

[Carol]

Ruth wrote: "Hi Carol. Glad to see you here. This is a fun group."

So I am finding out. I have already gained to new words for my vocabulary. Compliments to David.

[Ken, Moderator]

Hi Carol (and your kitty kat). Good to see you in the house! Lots of threads to check out... and if you feel like talking about "whatever" (our specialty), just jump in over at the kitchen sink thread.

NE

[Anna]

Debbie wrote: "Are you on dial-up Anna (I am....so I know what a pain the waiting is, with pics and videos)."

It's not dialup but it's a certain package - something like cable TV - only so many channels. I don't remember the numbers but I get only so many megabits (or whatever) per 24hr period and after 10pm it's free until 3am. there's also a lot less traffic then (usually). However, I tried to load again and it still wouldn't go. I think my pics are to big and I don't know how to make them smaller like my daughter-in-law does.

Oh and welcome to the group, Carol. Jump right in anytime.

[Carol]

Anna wrote: "Debbie wrote: "Are you on dial-up Anna (I am....so I know what a pain the waiting is, with pics and videos)."

It's not dialup but it's a certain package - something like cable TV - only so many ch..."

It took me forever to put up a photo. My picture was on photo premier. I had to save it to my file in My Documents, then resize it to web size.

[Anna]

All my pictures are in My Documents. It's the resizing I don't get.

[Carol]

I started from H P photosmart premier. I resized it there then sent it to docs. I am sorry I looked to see if I could to it from docs.no such luck. You will have to have someone more knowledgable.

[Anna]

Thanks for trying. I'll figure it out someday. They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. This old dog is still learning.

[Carol]

I hear you loud and clear. I just posted a picture this morning after a lot of trial and error. I just noticed I cut off half of my cat's head. Click on photo and you can see her in all her glory. She is no longer with us. She was eighteen when we lost her. She holds a special place in all our hearts

[[deleted user]]

She has the sweetest face Carol...what was her name?

[Carol]

My son named her Elizabeth. He has an affinity for queens. His cat now is Isabella

[Anna]

Oh. I see. It's cut off here. I went to your profile and it looks fine there. Beautiful cat.

[[deleted user]]

Well could've been Victoria! I like Elizabeth, had a sis once called Elizabeth...top name..

[Ruth]

What you need to do to upload a picture more efficiently is to reduce the the resolution to 72 pixels per square inch. That's the best resolution that's going to come up on a monitor anyway, so there's no point in better resolution.

You must have some kind of an image editing program on your computer. Go there and poke around in something that says "image size" or "resolution" or something of that ilk.

With a lower resolution (psi = pixels per inch) your file will be smaller and go much more quickly over your slow connection.

[Carol]

Joanie wrote: "Well could've been Victoria! I like Elizabeth, had a sis once called Elizabeth...top name.."

Should have been .Elizabeth weighed about 22 lbs at her heaviest.

[[deleted user]]

WOW Ruth!!!
That just sounds soooo impressive...not a clue what it means but it sounds great...

[Carol]

Ruth wrote: "What you need to do to upload a picture more efficiently is to reduce the the resolution to 72 pixels per square inch. That's the best resolution that's going to come up on a monitor anyway, so the..."

You made me poke around . You must have been a good professor.

[Ruth]

I hope so. Sometimes that old teaching urge comes over me, like Dr. Strangelove's arm.

[Anna]

Yeah, and I'm going to go poke around too. Haha

[Carol]

Anna wrote: "Yeah, and I'm going to go poke around too. Haha"

I hope you figure it out.

[Anna]

I have discovered 2 ways to change the size of my pictures but nothing to change the resolution. :( I'll send my daughter-in-law an email. Maybe she has an idea.

[[deleted user]]

OH poor Anna, you're still trying to sort it!

[Anna]

Yeah, still trying.

[[deleted user]]

Anna?? HELLOOOOO are you ok petal? forget the pics and come back and talk to us!

[Anna]

I'm still here. I bounce over here every time I get an email. I'll figure out the pics someday. The sun is shining and warm here today. What's happening in your corner of the world?

[[deleted user]]

OH Anna! we have had five days of sun in Hibernia..(has to be global warming, it's unheard of but sooo nice)
Look what it's done for my complexion already..hehehe
Doing any writing?

[Anna]

The most important project I have on my table at the moment is an editing task for a friend. However, there's only so much of that I can stand, so as soon as that wears old, I'm off to my favorite pass time. Of course I'm writing. It's an obsession these days.

[[deleted user]]

But what a great obsession it is. I have taken to even stopping the car lately to jot down ideas, but it's a compulsion that I truly love though.

[Anna]

Well I can't claim to have done that. I drive an open boat in the summer or a snowmachine in the winter. Not exactly conducive of writing anything en-route. There fore I stay home as much as humanly possible. That's one reason I like winters here. I don't work during the winters and I seldom have to go anywhere. Hence my line up of over 20 long and short stories waiting to be published with another well over 20 assorted ideas and false starts.

[[deleted user]]

Love to read some of your work Anna. An open boat IN Summer sounds positively dreamy.

[Anna]

Unless it's raining. So what do you like to read?

[[deleted user]]

Started college (finally) this week! so all the classics are obligatory, though I love them anyway, also love Irish= John mc Gahern, Niall Williams, William Trevor, UK= Alan Bennett, Graham Greene, All the clasics, oh and Hemingway and Fitzgerald.
I adore poetry= Theodore Roethke, Edna St Vincent Millay, Pablo Neruda, W. Berry, Mary Oliver, Plath, Emily D. Eavan Boland, Frost, Seamas Heaney, Yeats and all the Irish 'heavyweights' I could go on all night...ops just have..how bout you Anna?

[Anna]

I like fiction. Most anything that has swords and magic would be my first picks. Next might come werewolves and vampires - maybe - depends. I don't care too much for poetry though I've read a few nice ones. In case you hadn't noticed, I didn't list any author's names. I don't pay much attention to who wrote it. If I like the story, I'll read it. If I REALLY liked it, I might look twice at another of his or her books.

So, since that's what I like to read - that's what I like to write. I have a blast creating fantastical worlds and then having to follow the rules within it.

[[deleted user]]

Actually Anna, must confess to reading all the 'Twilight' series, (purely research purposes!) BUT loved them and even wrote one then! all 103,000 blessed words! I like the sound of your 'fantastical worlds' surely they have no rules where your imagination is limitless?

[Anna]

I read the first 2 of Twilight. Loved them. But when you create a world, there must always be rules within to follow. Of course, the rules I'm talking about generally are the rules by which magic can function. For instance, in Harry Potter, everyone needed a wand to cast proper spells - they had to know the right words and the right movements etc. In one of my stories, the magic was strictly elemental magic and the restrictions was understanding. If the element, i.e. earth, air, fire or water, was available AND if the caster understood how to make whatever it was he wanted to make, then the magic would work. But let's say he wanted to make a pistol. Everyone knows that a pistol shoots bullets, but if you don't know how to make you piece of metal do that, you can't make a gun that shoots bullets - all you have is a piece of metal that looks like a gun. Maybe even the trigger and the hammer move but it still doesn't work. It's really a lot of fun playing with the rules of magic.