Iconic Images

Tonight I was going to regale you with stories of my troubled relationship with Honda scooters, a subject I alluded to briefly last night.  In order to illustrate it, I was going to photograph both some current Honda models and my old, sun-damaged bikes with broken plastic parts. 

But when I stopped by the local Honda dealership after work, it turned out that they aren't allowed to sell Honda scooters any more.  Only dealers who sell Honda exclusively get to carry them.  So I came home, got online, and forgot to go photograph my Hondas until after it was dark outside.  Oh, well.  I'll do that entry for you on Sunday.

Instead I got all distracted with catching up on my alerts.  For one comment, I wanted to check the word count on a bad poem I wrote 31 years ago, which I posted on my LiveJournal earlier this year, as an example of how bad my writing sometimes was back in high school.  The comment was about the $6.74 I would have made on that poem at two cents a word, had Ed Ferman taken leave of his senses and bought it for F&SF back in 1974.

Anyway, it took me hours to find the LiveJournal entry with the Epli poem, during which time I watched SG-1 and added "tags" to a bunch of old LJ entries.  These are basically "metatags," one-word subjects attached to a LiveJournal entry to make it easier to find the entries about penguins - or, in my case, to sort the memes, language, personal and humor entries from the ones about jw, mavarin, serials and so on. Most of my LJ entries are either memes or about how my writing is going.

At one point I did a Google search for "mavarin + honda," to see what I've posted in the past about the scooters.  One of the results was so surprising that I blogged about it in LJ.  That led me back to reading my Friends page in Live Journal.  Sara hasn't posted the result of her cat's operation, but Julie finished a draft of her script, and Shelly's been messing around with icons for LJ.  The service recently expanded the number of icons each member can use (particularly for paid members and permanent accounts), and Shelly's taking advantage of this to design a 100x100 pixel avatar for every mood.

Icons, huh?  Well, I had the old paid account maximum of 9 userpics, and I was happy with them.  But, well, I succumbed.

Here's some of what I came up with, both in the tiny icon size and one larger image for more general use.  Hope you like 'em!


Now I've got to decide which ones to actually use.  Shelly's account allows 100.  I only get 15. I think I'll skip  most of the sleepy ones and alternative Cathmas and covers.  But I will keep the rejects on my hard drive and online, just in case I have use for them later.

I had 3.5 hours of sleep Thursday night, and it's 2:45 AM now.  Methinks I'm going to  bed soon.  But I've been wrong about that before.

Karen