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Animated
Thursday, March 5, 1998 I thought I'd have to write today's entry tomorrow morning, as I sometimes do, but I finished all my little tasks more quickly than I thought I would. So I do have time to write, after all! Thursday evening, now that I am often busy on Friday and Saturday, is a night for packing, sorting, and personal care jobs, and I can't get started until after dance class with dancing to follow. Of course, I could have taken care of some of these things as soon as I get home from work, but I usually feel like reading journals then. Sometimes my procrastination gene interacts with my Neurotic Promptness Syndrome to interesting effect. I'm never one to resist a challenge! Or at least I like to think of myself that way. Jason updated his page today, and proposed a contest for folks to make animated gifs of him. Because one of my machines was waiting for a developer to debug a problem it had, I was blocked on some of my work. So I created...my first animated gif! We'll see how I do in this "contest", and if I get to pick my own prize! Do you feel that forwarding humor mail counts as sending personal email to someone? Someone I know says that he carefully selects the recipients, so that makes it personal. I still think I'd like some original content. Tomorrow night I join the gaming group. Liralen gave me some good ideas for a character. She envisioned my persona as resembling a young Julia Child (who worked for the OSS during WWII); energetic, having social grace, and intensely curious about people. A bit of pressure, since I don't want to mess up everyone else's fun, but I feel good about this. My Vanguard page was announced in the reminder email that went out tonight, and I already got some email complimenting it. The digital camera really makes it fun to do these "photo album" type web pages.
I was talking to Wally on the phone this afternoon while he was updating the page for his cable access show. I think it was the first time the page was updated in over a year! The effect of real-time web page editing was an interesting one. He kept tweaking and I kept hitting refresh. I don't think he knew then that he was going to have a very special guest on the show tonight: the artist formerly known as Famous Amos! (I had forgotten that Amos' first name was also Wally.) The show was great, very lively and funny.
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