A good day, so far.

[kyrielle]

This morning, sent a bunch of mail and after that stopped to get more stuff for the cats (mostly food in smaller cans so I can vary what they get more, and because they're fussy about temperature and I can't seem to get it 'just right' in the Microwave). Picked up more cat food for the feral cats (they had plenty in the bowls but the garbage can that holds food for dispensing was empty when I accomplished that) as well. And ink for my printer since the warnings have started popping up.

Stopped by the game shop that has a midnight opening on the 16th to release Burning Crusade, and reserved two copies of same (which they would not do over the phone). It's just up in Argyle Square at the North Wilsonville exit (...that property used to be a truck stop, now it's an expensive suburban mall-thing, go figure). So not far at all. I figure it will probably want to download stuff, and it can do that overnight while I'm sleeping, thankyouverymuch. I wasn't going to reserve, but the idea of getting it in time to play on my birthday was shiny and so I called to see if they were really open (always wise to be sure) and got a yes, but you want to reserve or you won't get one. So I did. Yay, gamer crack!

Then went over to visit Uncle Jim and Aunt Betty. It was a lovely, lovely visit - spent a good part of the afternoon there. I hope we didn't stay too long or leave too early - I'm never sure on things like that - but it was getting late and it was dark out, and dinnertime, and that seemed like a good time to head home. Hopefully we will visit a bit more regularly than in the past (I don't think I've seen them more than once in the last decade or so, and that's insane since they just live up the freeway from us a tiny ways - arrrgh!). We have all been - myself very much included - not as good at connecting as I could wish and I am so glad to visit with them and meet their cats and so on. (Lovely cats. Very shy of us for the most part, but lovely cats.)

A rock hit the windshield on the way up, and put a nice round spot in it, so I'll have to do something about that in the next couple days.

Scott heated the frozen lasagna when we got home (yay, and also yum!). The mail today brought the mini-cards I had ordered - photos (taken from my Flickr account) printed on one side, the other side with my name, address, etc. - like a photographic calling card. Thinner than a standard business card. Very pretty.

Here is today's 1-a-day photo - the sunrise this morning. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyrielle/356488950/

Here are two photos showing most (not all) of the mini-cards I got - well, I got 100, but a lot are the same image again. :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyrielle/356485870/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyrielle/356485867/

And here's the photo showing the ones I might order again (if I ever run through the first hundred or so) as I really liked how they turned out. And a link to the set showing the original photos for those cards. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyrielle/356485871/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyrielle/sets/72157594460195248/

Comments

[kayre]

Could you tell me more about the cards? Where you ordered them, what size they are, etc.?

Love the sunrise.

[kyrielle]

On http://www.flickr.com/ when I am logged in, on just that page, there is a little box "Do more with your photos!" which includes links, including to Moo. That link goes to: http://www.moo.com/flickr/ which is where I got the cards. You can kind of see size in the photos - that is a standard-size keyboard. They are about half the height, and full width, of a business card. Maybe a touch wider. The web site says they are 28mm x 70mm.

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

I love your shot of the sunrise. It's one of my favorite times of day, when you see the whole rainbow in the sky like that. :-)

[canyoncat.livejournal.com]

Those mini cards are very cool looking, I've never seen anything like them. It looks like they would work very nicely as bookmarks.

[kyrielle]

They might. They are pretty small - about the length of a business card or a tiny bit more, but much narrower. So they might just slide into the book in some cases. They really are nifty, though, and I like the idea of having a "calling card" with a pretty picture on it. :)

[canyoncat.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't realize they were that short. It is a good idea though... I should look into them.