pay no attention...

...to the crazy woman, wavin' her arms about!

i have been wanting to add a photo to my profile, and apparently, to do that, blogger needs me to post it first, and then link to it. the photo was already hosted online, in a photo album...but that wasn't good enough for blogger. oh no. a simple link would not suffice.

here you go, blogger. and thus, i am outed as a total egomaniac! ...satisfied...??

i often use this photo, in these sorts of situations:

it is me, a couple of years before t'internet was invented. ok, a couple of years before PC's were invented. ok, the electric typewriter in the picture? that was state-of-the-art...at the time this pic was taken...that was like a 50" flat-screen plasma tv! ...so it was a while ago...

i almost used this photo:

not because i think it's better...nope...purely for the opportunity to use the caption, "portrait of the artist as a young manatee"!

geddit??! MAN-atee?!!!!! hahahahaha!

ok, nevermind.

i will go with the first one. me, this summer, 45 minutes after my plane landed in san diego. ...it don't get much better than that, baby...