A day of ribbons and a photo of a journey

This evening I reinstalled the WGT624 router, and then reinstalled the WG511T wireless card. And everything has worked for the last couple of hours.

Today it has been dreary, cloudy and chilly. One of the features of Netscape 8 is a thermometer reading in the upper band of settings that shows the local temp. It now reads 29F.

My one trip out today was to have lunch at the usual buffett place. Decent food, large selection at inexpensive prices. It was a very mixed crowd today - I heard English, Japanese, Choctaw, and Spanish. This does not include the various local southern ethnic dialects from country to inner city to business speak.

On the way to and from lunch, I noticed plastic ribbons about a foot long and an inch wide tied to bush and limb. The significance of which eludes me. But for whatever reason, they were unusually signficant today - pink, red, white, yellow, blue. All fluttering in the wind like scattered prayer ribbons.

It was one of my favorite photos, and I've been totally unable to locate it again on the web.

However, in place of it, I decided on another very striking photo as indicated below.

When I first encountered this image several years ago, I was immediately haunted by it. Beyond the representation of a terrifying act of barbarism, I found in it a terrible and cold beauty. The second I saw it, I felt like it had exploded into my subconscious.

PAX!