hushed gray: the Kevin chronicles

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Yay for the Sabbath
So I just logged on to FOXNews.com and their graphic says "Greece in Flames." Given that it is FOX, I'm rather surprised it doesn't say "Greece Fire" instead.

You'll forgive me for doing a double take when I heard Mr. Armstrong's voice in a spot that aired on the station on Thursday. It was a promotion for a book by a Mr. Flurry, I forget his first name and it doesn't really matter anyway. Nevertheless, I was surprised.

With some reluctance I'm greatly reducing in scale my plans for my landscape stamps. It was my initial goal to write a full page of text to go with each scene, but I'd already scaled that back to a half page. And even that has proven surprisingly troublesome; some of these places that are pictured on stamps even Google Earth doesn't seem to know exist. And then some of the stamps are based on paintings of places that really don't exist...so it's a combination of things making me revisit this. The big ones are a) I can't find the information I need to do the project up in the way I'd imagined, and b) it appears that to do the project up in the way I'd imagined, even if I could find the needed information, would take way more time than I really desire to put into it. SO...I've basically decided to do the following: I'll create simple album pages with nothing but some simple geographical headings (continent, country, etc.) and captions for the stamps that picture places I can confirm actually exist. Then I'll have separate pages for the "generic" stamps that in many cases appear to be based on photos and therefore have to exist, but which have no identifying inscriptions and for which I can not pinpoint a particular location. Several Canadian flag stamps with scenic views come to mind in that category. So again, not what I'd envisioned, but if anything I have a habit of biting off way more than I can chew when it comes to these projects, and it's probably best that I realize that now and keep things very simple before I put in hundreds of hours and get about halfway through and lose interest in it. It'll still be an attractive display--and one that can be converted to Web site form if I decide to do that at some point in the future.

And with any luck I might even be able to get that project wrapped up next week if I don't goof off. Getting it done before the Feast is my goal, and as there will be many other things that need to be done over the next few weeks it will be good to wrap up work as quickly as possible.

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