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My first post, so let me know if I'm doing it wrong.

The photo above is linked to a flash gallery on my website that contains about 70 photographs of an abandoned structure here in Italy, just North of Rome. I'm not sure what the building's use was, but it did have a lot of interesting things in it.
The gallery starts with 2 abandoned car shots in there, and then 3 of a road flyover from Rome which shouldn't be there, but I hope no-one is too upset as the following 66 are all in the one abandoned location.
The (Lightroom) gallery is just that, no adverts or even any links into my website itself, it takes 20 seconds or so to load up the pics but then it's pretty quick.

For my next post I'll link the pictures directly in the post, but I don't have time right now, but I thought you might be interested in the pictures as they are.

The camera was a Konica Minolta Dynax 5D with a couple of zooms, and the pics were taken a couple of years ago. I went "artistic" on them in Photoshop and Lightroom.

Thanks for looking, Paul.

Found on a government webpage about a park:


1.6km of shared track suitable for cycling, rollerbalding and pedestrians


Because ... you know ... there aren't already enough ways to get rid of it all.

Just some quick photos from my adventures in West Virginia the other day...



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Heh, I'm definitely going to have to start early here! 83 comments on the first day! Woo-hoo!

Can I have something with Harry, Ginny, and a young Teddy please? for lollapulizer
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The birth of Regulus and Lily's first child, if you don't mind? Maybe he/she could be born around Christmas just to keep the holiday theme there for sonetka
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Something romantic with Hermione and Ron please for stepinsidelove
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Nice sunny room in nice flat with easygoing couple and cat. Available room is unfurnished, the rest of the flat already has everything you could ever possibly need. $120pw rent, $30pw expenses.

The rest of the details and some photos are on the TradeMe listing: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=251511457

Give us a call if you're interested, or pass the details on if you know someone who might be. Home phone is 383 9254 and ask for Miranda or Henry.

And just out of curiosity, is anyone else looking for a flatmate and hardly getting any bites? Is it just a really bad time of year?

Maos' forgotten underground city.
Just another nifty thing I found poking on the internet!

Someone ("checkers"?) recommended this site to me because they saw a comic I made about Attolia and Gen. I'm really happy this place exists, because other than the people I've forced to read the book, no one else I know reads them. I'll just put the comic here then, I hope it gives everyone a laugh...

http://bookblogwannabes.blogspot.com/2009/11/queen-of-attolia-comic.html

My ARC of COK came.

I can't read it today. But I did look very very very closely at the cover, to try to decide if it is a mustache or not. I have decided not, and have posted a closeup of the area in question here-- http://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-interest-primarily-to-hard-core.html

Charlotte

I read the ARC of A Conspiracy of Kings yesterday afternoon* and am still in the throes of wild ecstasies of love (not to mention the desperate impulse to READ IT AGAIN RIGHT NOW), but I managed to come up with a fairly coherent (and NON-SPOILERY) review of the book on my journal.

So if you are interested in knowing what I thought of it (in case it isn't already obvious), you can pop over there and have a look...

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* The benefits of a classical education being a HarperCollins author. But now I am in the unenviable position of trying to decide who I should pass the ARC on to next...

Is the cut working? No, the cut is not working.

It's quarter to three in the morning. I've been involved with the 24-hour prayer vigil, and I'm going ncturnal anyway. I spent almost three hours there, writing two long letters to God.
I mean, LONG letters.

But anyway, I still haven't had an email back from Jeph, but he's been postng mainly low-work comics lately, so he's amazingly busy or amazingly tired, which means he may not have been checking emails

Let's hope.

Anyway, I'm not posting it up, since I can't use the cut, but I've got 46,842 words.

*Bangs the bloody flashdrive against the wall. Feels better*

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Territory occupied by russian "peacekeepers" and abkhazian separatists in Republic Of Georgia more than 16 years ago .
Since than almost no changes .




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Dear guy handing out Save Manners Mall flyers on Cuba/Manners on Friday night,

The last thing a campaign needs is someone being aggressive and combative with passer-bys because we don't take your flyer.

As it happens, despite you loudly calling out at me "How would you know about Manners Mall if you don't speak to me" when I said I wasn't interested, as I live in the area I know full well what is planned.

You're an idiot.

Good luck with the campaign, I suspect you'll need it with that attitude.

Love,
An actual resident of the area

I meant to start the sentence with "anything" but I guess I was just typing too fast. Because what I actually wrote was "Anythong that would keep her from being exposed for what she really was.

It's that time of year again--the holiday ficlet call. From today (11/27) through midnight (MST) on Monday (11/30), I'll take your requests for ficlets, and if it's anything like last year, I'll be catching up to them for a month and half. :D

The only thing this year is that I think I took a wrong turn in introducing reincarnation into the Potterverse, so I'd like to not do reincarnate stories.

Other than that... any fandom you know I'm in, eras, characters, whatever. Heck, if you want an original, I'll do that, too. This is my "thank you for reading my blog" time of year, because I really am thankful to everyone for reading along, even when I'm being sluggish on Stray.

Maira Kalman's blog, "And the Pursuit of Happiness," has a particularly Pollanesque theme this month:

Back to the Land.

So wonderful that I had to share.