Fragments From Floyd

* I was in the same room with TWO bloggers yesterday--right in the teeny town of Floyd. Looks like there may be a new kid on the block before long. Doug and I have divided the blogging turf north and south of 221. What will we do if David St. Lawrence (and his blogophilic spouse Gretchen) move to Floyd County? Dave says he'll take the downtown beat, and he's already started moving into the territory with his impromptu photoshoot and interviews at Oddfellas this week. Dave posted the Cafe del Sol segment from that very same internet cafe, creating quite a stir among those who never saw a blog in action before.

* Snow's coming. This can't be right: my wife is off for three days. The way it usually works is she's snowed in at work and I'm stranded with the dog and cat for a three-day blizzard. Good fortune makes me a leetle speecious, Lucy. Tsuga will think he's died and gone to heaven with all the attention he'll get snowed inside a day or so. And for the couple who said they needed a Tsuga-fix, I'll post one later today or tomorrow.

* In the never-ending quest for efficiency and as yet another step in the unending process of filling my hard drive with software, I've downloaded and installed the 1-Click button from Answers.com. Pretty neat. For instance, I wondered what the weather was in Vancouver where my son is now. Wow. Great info about the city, it's history and points of interest--way more focused that shuffling through the 3 million Google hits from typing the city's name.

* Well, thank goodness we're past the Moon Wars for this month. Maybe. Doug has declared the next photo-campaign will be "snow and ice". That's a little closer to my earthy interest and more compatible with my available focal length and experience. Of course, he can also dip into his forty-year archive of images of winters past. I say "Bring it On". Dueling Digitals. Anybody suggest a banjo theme song?

* Duct Tape. Even in the realm of photography, it is indispensable. My Coolpix had a part failure: a three millimeter plastic "clasp" that holds the battery compartment door broke off about two months back. I could see that the part was held in place by tiny screws, and so should be able to be replaced easily and inexpensively. He said. Nikon service sent back an estimate: $235. I paid $10 to have it returned, and a silver strip of the miracle mender now stands boldly against the black camera body. Class. That's what DT gives everything it touches. Character and class. If this is so, I am one classy character.

* Well we have guests coming (if the snow holds off) and so we be doing the YesM'am Shuffle. I gotta go.