http://stargirl-designs.com/blog Web design, Photography, Travel, History Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:29:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I discovered last night that Flickr stopped allowing me to post photos to this blog.  I'm not sure exactly why this happened.  I erased the link in my Flickr account and tried to re-add it.  Didn't work.  It kept claiming that my username and password were invalid.  This despite the ... http://stargirl-designs.com/blog/2008/10/17/the-death-of-this-blog/ Rittenhouse Square pigeon Originally uploaded by etacar11 Ok, the pigeon is just a random photo I took in Rittenhouse Square. I didn't smuggle a camera into the Nine Inch Nails show at Wachovia Center. I should have; the security chick barely glanced in my bag. On the other hand, ... http://stargirl-designs.com/blog/2008/08/31/in-philly-for-the-greatest-show-ever/ Mall of America - Me and Lego Boba Originally uploaded by etacar11 I only spent about two days in Minneapolis this past weekend, so I didn't get to see much. The purpose of the trip was to see my grad school friend Yan get married. I didn't want to use ... http://stargirl-designs.com/blog/2008/08/15/minneapolis/ Point Fermin Lighthouse Originally uploaded by etacar11 It's been about a week since we got back from California and I've been meaning to post on the last part of our time there. Thursday, July 24th, was my brother's 39th birthday. We visited his grave at Westminster Memorial Park and released balloons ... http://stargirl-designs.com/blog/2008/08/02/california-part-3/ Bolsa Chica - Great Egret Originally uploaded by etacar11 We left Huntington Beach on Monday and drove out into the desert. First we visited my dad's sister-in-law, Elsie, in Yucca Valley. She's in her eighties, a bit frail but mentally as sharp as anyone her age could hope to be. ... http://stargirl-designs.com/blog/2008/07/24/california-part-2/ Huntington Beach - surfer Originally uploaded by etacar11 Where is that damn California sun? Three mornings we've been here and it's been overcast for all of them. Sure, the Sun came out eventually each day but I want to wake up to some Sun, dang it! We visited my brother's grave ... http://stargirl-designs.com/blog/2008/07/21/california-part-1/ Calvert Cliffs Originally uploaded by etacar11 I had been wanting to check out this state park in Southern Maryland for a while. Rob and I drove down there one Sunday afternoon. The beach is a good two mile hike through the woods from the parking lot. Very pleasant, mostly ... http://stargirl-designs.com/blog/2008/07/11/calvert-cliffs/ Gravelly Point - American plane landing Originally uploaded by etacar11 A lot of airports have places where people go to watch the planes. Washington National Airport has a park near one end of its runway called Gravelly Point. We had a little MEETinDC gathering there to take pictures of the planes as ... http://stargirl-designs.com/blog/2008/07/04/gravelly-point-american-plane-landing/ I'm going to Huntington Beach, California (my hometown), with my parents next month on vacation.  They go back every year for their high school alumni picnic.  I haven't been back in four years, since my brother Neal's funeral in 2004.  So this year I decided to go with them. We only ... http://stargirl-designs.com/blog/2008/06/20/california-here-i-come/ I always refused to join networks like MySpace and Facebook. In my mind they're for kids. I still feel that way about MySpace. Facebook, I've changed my mind about. It seems like a cool way to connect with people you know, people with common interests...although I ... http://stargirl-designs.com/blog/2008/06/06/facebook-has-me-now/