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Yeah, I am so not going to make more money on stock than I do at writing, but it's still fun.

What is "dreaming you are working the photoshop palette all night," Alex.

The worst part is, I not only did that, I also dreamed writing this joke in my blog.

I am ridiculously over-excited about my coming new lens. I really should be focusing on packing right now, as we move in a little over a month. But, toys! I guess I will pack some this weekend.

Have you all heard of Pmog.com? It's a passively multiplayer game you play in your browser just by doing what you already do. Little messages pop up, and you get gifts, or find secret portals to other websites. Every url you visit gets you experience points. And you can make missions for people to take, which leads them along a string of websites with a theme, or whatever. I'm going to do a tour of SF short fiction websites. Doing my part to talk up the business! I think this could be really fun, and, well, possibly a tool for viral marketing, so I'm a little suspicious of that. Think of it as a weird kind of Digg with bombs.

I got into the beta yesterday, and it's not as much fun as it could because nobody I know is playing! Go check it out and sign up for the beta. Report back here if you are let in, because I need people who read the same sites as me laying mines for me and stuff. We need to create an association of genre writers! Did I mention the whole thing has a steampunk vibe to it? What are you doing here still?

This picture didn't turn out great in color, but I think I rescued it in B&W. The great news is, I've done enough freelance work this month to reward myself with a new 70-300mm lens. Should be here by Wednesday next week, so expect many more wildlife photographs coming soon.

My next purchase might have to be a portable bird blind...

Cattails in Spring, originally uploaded by JeremyT.

I head out to the same nature area every Saturday and Sunday morning lately. Things are slowly turning green here. Tiny leaves adorn the tips of the branches of trees, and the grass is flourishing. It's been dry, but moist enough to wake the sleeping life.

The cattails sleep longer than most everything else. It occurs to me that I've never noticed the moment when cattails grow anew. Do they arrive in spring, or is it summer? How do they push up from the old growth that remains all winter, captured here? Life for a new cattail plant must be a harsh one, living so packed and close to your dead ancestors. I imagine it would be like living in the Catacombs of Paris.

But, I do haver one crazy idea for blog content that will make you all happy.

Photo of the Day is back!

Music is the ultimate salve, self. Slap that stuff on next time you feel like crap. Bounce your knee and feel your mood improve instantly. When you rock out, you truly believe for a while that "you rock."

Anything I upload to them from now on is coming straight out of the camera with absolutely zero modifiers. It's like being told in the writing world, you have to submit your first drafts, and do no editing on your work. Crazy!