Now this here's the story 'bout the Rock island Line. The Rock Island Line she runs down into

Pictures online from Maria and Friends Part 22: with Kris Bauer-Exline (09-Jun-2005), Maria's Bon Voyage Party (10-Jun-2005), and Dad's Birthday Brunch (11-Jun-2005).

In other news: Maria's doing fine. I've got a new used laptop computer to collect my photos on.

More commentary later.

...New Orleans. An' just outside of New Orleans, there's a big toll gate. An' all the trains they go

I've just uploaded Maria Moves Out and Leaves (14-18-Jun-2005): the last pictures I took of Maria this year. There are a few shots taken at her apartment, moving the last of her stuff out; dinner with library_lynn one last time, and dessert; and taking her to the airport.

I would have taken a picture of her going up the stairs, but she didn't look back.

Chaz

...through the toll gate, why, they gotta pay the man some money. But of course, if you've got

Just uploaded Yorba Linda Public Library: Summer Reading Program Kick-Off (18-Jun-2005) pictures. Maria wasn't at that -- library_lynn had to work it, and I helped with her job, which was to schlep ice -- 200 lbs. by the time we were done, most of which was needed for the snow cone machine.

And that's the last big batch of pictures "harvested" using the old PC laptop. I have a few miscellaneous pictures to upload, but I'm not using the PC to pull snapshots off the memory cards anymore.

...certain things on board, you're okay, you don' have to pay the man nothin'.

Miscellaneous at home and around town (Feb/Mar/Apr/May/Jun-2005) uploaded. For example, you can see we went to Joe's Italian Ice and I got a lime ice mixed with orange soft serve ice cream. Tasty... Also we have proof that the City of Santa Ana's street sign department can't spell, and that Trader Joe's has trouble identifying fruits. And there are one or two shots of library_lynn and Maria.

And I've uploaded our attempt at shooting our own passport photos (09-Jun-2005). 2 megapixels isn't enough; the rule basically is that the printout has to look like you can't tell it was digital, i.e. you shouldn't be able to see the pixels and it should look like a continuous-tone photograph. The quicky passport photo I had done at Kinko's was in the same shirt as these shots, though. (And I'm considering wearing that shirt every time I go through a border with my passport...)

Chaz