<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810</id><updated>2011-07-07T16:19:57.422-07:00</updated><category term='momversations'/><title type='text'>MFO</title><subtitle type='html'>AN INDUSTRY OF OBSERVATION</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>310</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-4003421597877193688</id><published>2010-01-01T22:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-01T22:33:06.052-08:00</updated><title type='text'>hello itchy sweater, can I offer you a drink?</title><content type='html'>Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable."  ~Twyla Tharp&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-4003421597877193688?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4003421597877193688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4003421597877193688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2010/01/hello-itchy-sweater-can-i-offer-you.html' title='hello itchy sweater, can I offer you a drink?'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-6950250560690018477</id><published>2009-08-26T14:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-26T15:58:26.360-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='momversations'/><title type='text'>Back to the Garden</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SpWjgJhiaxI/AAAAAAAAB3s/OMLAjN6wR-g/s1600-h/DSC00524.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SpWjgJhiaxI/AAAAAAAAB3s/OMLAjN6wR-g/s400/DSC00524.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374381503044283154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SpWjfVEHbsI/AAAAAAAAB3k/p4ApQlsWi6o/s1600-h/DSC00523.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SpWjfVEHbsI/AAAAAAAAB3k/p4ApQlsWi6o/s400/DSC00523.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374381488962236098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Summer of Love---Lolly style.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-6950250560690018477?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6950250560690018477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6950250560690018477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/08/back-to-garden.html' title='Back to the Garden'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SpWjgJhiaxI/AAAAAAAAB3s/OMLAjN6wR-g/s72-c/DSC00524.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-5838649209514613227</id><published>2009-08-26T13:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-26T14:00:24.468-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SpWiQEbBkoI/AAAAAAAAB3c/gxV5wv_DabQ/s1600-h/burt_clifton_thinkmakethink_temp_artworkimage_1_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SpWiQEbBkoI/AAAAAAAAB3c/gxV5wv_DabQ/s400/burt_clifton_thinkmakethink_temp_artworkimage_1_1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374380127285252738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a small but achievable dream&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-5838649209514613227?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5838649209514613227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5838649209514613227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/08/its-small-but-achievable-dream.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SpWiQEbBkoI/AAAAAAAAB3c/gxV5wv_DabQ/s72-c/burt_clifton_thinkmakethink_temp_artworkimage_1_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-730625280718331276</id><published>2009-08-06T12:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-06T12:42:42.992-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Take a sad song and make it better</title><content type='html'>If you want to have your world seem both precious and expansive at the same time, I can recommend taking a walk in the early evening when the sky has just begun to drape a gauzy sherbet-hued scarf across its clear blue neck.  It needs to be summer, so when you pass by a high school it seems abandoned and frozen in time and your mind can fill it's halls with the class of, say,  85'. The school will feel like a big sleeping lion, drugged perhaps, so that you can get REALLY close and inspect its teeth, smell it's breath and run your fingertips along it's mane and maybe even throw an arm over its stretched back and spoon a little.  All this will happen without your needing to stop.  You may notice that 2 of the trees on a tree-lined street have been chosen as the official crow meeting place for all crows within a 2 mile radius, and you will marvel as the sky becomes scribbled with a mass of black lines and you will wonder how they all knew to meet then and there and why they perch together in silence.  And, because of the angle of the setting sun, it will all be in silhouette, and you will unconsciously bring your hand to your heart and audibly inhale. All this will be on the way to a park and here you will hear a group of 5 or so children, ages 5-7 maybe, spontaneously sing an entire verse and chorus  of "Hey Jude".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-730625280718331276?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/730625280718331276'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/730625280718331276'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/08/take-sad-song-and-make-it-better.html' title='Take a sad song and make it better'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-1595996476401941826</id><published>2009-07-08T07:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-08T07:49:49.935-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Sequential Number Day!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlSx7xyyXaI/AAAAAAAAB3Q/Q2OHcLCh2tQ/s1600-h/2m8BXUfripn5a8er24CFTqmwo1_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 289px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlSx7xyyXaI/AAAAAAAAB3Q/Q2OHcLCh2tQ/s400/2m8BXUfripn5a8er24CFTqmwo1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356101497387113890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-1595996476401941826?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1595996476401941826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1595996476401941826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/07/happy-sequential-number-day.html' title='Happy Sequential Number Day!'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlSx7xyyXaI/AAAAAAAAB3Q/Q2OHcLCh2tQ/s72-c/2m8BXUfripn5a8er24CFTqmwo1_500.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-9060510964795240420</id><published>2009-07-04T23:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-05T09:07:26.588-07:00</updated><title type='text'>4th in '54  n' '83</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlDPrcFmicI/AAAAAAAAB3I/ZH-KtJEA4Ys/s1600-h/2m8BXUfripizyf73Z8WGVocYo1_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlDPrcFmicI/AAAAAAAAB3I/ZH-KtJEA4Ys/s400/2m8BXUfripizyf73Z8WGVocYo1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355008302124534210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlBGBUzAZ9I/AAAAAAAAB3A/VVvPkix7Fa4/s1600-h/2m8BXUfriphh1etl6cQxLL7zo1_r1_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 321px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlBGBUzAZ9I/AAAAAAAAB3A/VVvPkix7Fa4/s400/2m8BXUfriphh1etl6cQxLL7zo1_r1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354856945519978450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-9060510964795240420?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/9060510964795240420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/9060510964795240420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/07/4th-in-83.html' title='4th in &apos;54  n&apos; &apos;83'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlDPrcFmicI/AAAAAAAAB3I/ZH-KtJEA4Ys/s72-c/2m8BXUfripizyf73Z8WGVocYo1_500.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-4075758724649934792</id><published>2009-07-04T22:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-04T22:50:59.904-07:00</updated><title type='text'>independence day</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlA-yN5qP2I/AAAAAAAAB24/F8Az1lJ-vdc/s1600-h/P1010373.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlA-yN5qP2I/AAAAAAAAB24/F8Az1lJ-vdc/s400/P1010373.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354848989389406050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlA-xg9g09I/AAAAAAAAB2w/nOm8WCn0Tog/s1600-h/P1010247.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlA-xg9g09I/AAAAAAAAB2w/nOm8WCn0Tog/s400/P1010247.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354848977325970386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlA-xbkKMWI/AAAAAAAAB2o/w05eRn7j1fI/s1600-h/P1010219.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlA-xbkKMWI/AAAAAAAAB2o/w05eRn7j1fI/s400/P1010219.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354848975877452130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlA8Ef9f7AI/AAAAAAAAB2I/_Sb2OGfWPWE/s1600-h/P1010311.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlA8Ef9f7AI/AAAAAAAAB2I/_Sb2OGfWPWE/s400/P1010311.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354846004940106754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlA8EGU4xCI/AAAAAAAAB2A/tmYKHwsLwDw/s1600-h/P1010260.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlA8EGU4xCI/AAAAAAAAB2A/tmYKHwsLwDw/s400/P1010260.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354845998058882082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4th of July may be my favorite holiday...FREEDOM!&lt;br /&gt;FIreworks just do me...speed and color, thrills and chills.  My new camera has a setting specifically for fireworks, how about that.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-4075758724649934792?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4075758724649934792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4075758724649934792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/07/independence-day.html' title='independence day'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SlA-yN5qP2I/AAAAAAAAB24/F8Az1lJ-vdc/s72-c/P1010373.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-5834090882929745299</id><published>2009-06-29T19:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-30T09:48:45.951-07:00</updated><title type='text'>prop house whores</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SkpB52viLjI/AAAAAAAAB14/CRoJQ3K2aMo/s1600-h/IMG_0255.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SkpB52viLjI/AAAAAAAAB14/CRoJQ3K2aMo/s400/IMG_0255.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353163569286491698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Skl0rodfb2I/AAAAAAAAB1w/zwP4PAOpBwQ/s1600-h/IMG_0262.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Skl0rodfb2I/AAAAAAAAB1w/zwP4PAOpBwQ/s400/IMG_0262.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352937925050855266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Skl0rTAWSEI/AAAAAAAAB1o/9yXIpd-QENg/s1600-h/IMG_0261.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Skl0rTAWSEI/AAAAAAAAB1o/9yXIpd-QENg/s400/IMG_0261.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352937919291476034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Skl0rDcVGaI/AAAAAAAAB1g/RmTdJ5ONwAI/s1600-h/IMG_0258.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Skl0rDcVGaI/AAAAAAAAB1g/RmTdJ5ONwAI/s400/IMG_0258.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352937915113871778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Skl0q_EyMrI/AAAAAAAAB1Y/grhQlG9oet8/s1600-h/IMG_0239.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Skl0q_EyMrI/AAAAAAAAB1Y/grhQlG9oet8/s400/IMG_0239.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352937913941373618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-5834090882929745299?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5834090882929745299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5834090882929745299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/06/blog-post.html' title='prop house whores'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SkpB52viLjI/AAAAAAAAB14/CRoJQ3K2aMo/s72-c/IMG_0255.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-7456761446532603571</id><published>2009-06-25T15:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T15:25:53.727-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Off The Wall</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SkP5FcAbT-I/AAAAAAAAB1Q/VhhAN_A9nDc/s1600-h/200px-Off_the_wall.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 212px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SkP5FcAbT-I/AAAAAAAAB1Q/VhhAN_A9nDc/s400/200px-Off_the_wall.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351394654058926050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and the planet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of my top 10 albums of all time.  Thanks Michael.  RIP.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-7456761446532603571?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7456761446532603571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7456761446532603571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/06/off-wall.html' title='Off The Wall'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SkP5FcAbT-I/AAAAAAAAB1Q/VhhAN_A9nDc/s72-c/200px-Off_the_wall.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-6871216728672106554</id><published>2009-06-23T15:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-23T15:43:52.960-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SkFabXujCdI/AAAAAAAAB1I/x7qusO1JQWs/s1600-h/type-tree.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SkFabXujCdI/AAAAAAAAB1I/x7qusO1JQWs/s400/type-tree.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350657258565077458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The concept of summer vacation has failed to leave me as an adult.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-6871216728672106554?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6871216728672106554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6871216728672106554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/06/concept-of-summer-vacation-has-failed.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SkFabXujCdI/AAAAAAAAB1I/x7qusO1JQWs/s72-c/type-tree.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-926404642095081395</id><published>2009-05-26T08:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-26T10:34:07.028-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/ShwPZABC4-I/AAAAAAAAB1A/9i_YgZPzLPk/s1600-h/supersmart-0021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/ShwPZABC4-I/AAAAAAAAB1A/9i_YgZPzLPk/s400/supersmart-0021.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340160180330095586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, then again, the mind can really be a lying sack of shit.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-926404642095081395?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/926404642095081395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/926404642095081395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post_26.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/ShwPZABC4-I/AAAAAAAAB1A/9i_YgZPzLPk/s72-c/supersmart-0021.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-461735841152954919</id><published>2009-05-18T20:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-18T20:21:36.867-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/ShIlsPnYeWI/AAAAAAAAB04/csjDmrAf0yw/s1600-h/523582966_22ce232fdd_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 336px; height: 253px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/ShIlsPnYeWI/AAAAAAAAB04/csjDmrAf0yw/s400/523582966_22ce232fdd_o.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337369950423644514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-461735841152954919?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/461735841152954919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/461735841152954919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post_18.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/ShIlsPnYeWI/AAAAAAAAB04/csjDmrAf0yw/s72-c/523582966_22ce232fdd_o.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-629607995973786446</id><published>2009-05-16T14:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-16T14:02:26.166-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Sg8p0kMQMbI/AAAAAAAAB0w/eilKQxVMEok/s1600-h/getexcited_spruce_500px_artworkimage.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 279px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Sg8p0kMQMbI/AAAAAAAAB0w/eilKQxVMEok/s400/getexcited_spruce_500px_artworkimage.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336530066502332850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-629607995973786446?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/629607995973786446'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/629607995973786446'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post_16.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Sg8p0kMQMbI/AAAAAAAAB0w/eilKQxVMEok/s72-c/getexcited_spruce_500px_artworkimage.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-60185045465601624</id><published>2009-05-03T09:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-03T09:45:34.673-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Sf3KHefe3aI/AAAAAAAAB0o/qw54s4dp-Kg/s1600-h/300.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Sf3KHefe3aI/AAAAAAAAB0o/qw54s4dp-Kg/s400/300.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331639763669540258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-60185045465601624?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/60185045465601624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/60185045465601624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Sf3KHefe3aI/AAAAAAAAB0o/qw54s4dp-Kg/s72-c/300.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-7435910507490188023</id><published>2009-04-12T08:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-12T08:20:31.009-07:00</updated><title type='text'>kthnxbi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SeIFVWkLURI/AAAAAAAAB0g/tXT6e_4fDLE/s1600-h/OMG_Easter.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 323px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SeIFVWkLURI/AAAAAAAAB0g/tXT6e_4fDLE/s400/OMG_Easter.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323823573898055954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-7435910507490188023?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7435910507490188023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7435910507490188023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/04/kthnxbi.html' title='kthnxbi'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SeIFVWkLURI/AAAAAAAAB0g/tXT6e_4fDLE/s72-c/OMG_Easter.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-4900099862378175812</id><published>2009-04-10T19:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-10T19:44:29.621-07:00</updated><title type='text'>alchemy of stupidery</title><content type='html'>Here's something interesting...I recently read that researchers in the UK strapped a large lump of gold to the screen of a TV on left it switched on for 2 years.  When they removed and analyzed it they found that it had been converted to lead.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-4900099862378175812?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4900099862378175812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4900099862378175812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/04/alchemy-of-stupidery.html' title='alchemy of stupidery'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-2317946467434934379</id><published>2009-03-25T07:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-25T07:57:05.427-07:00</updated><title type='text'>upon waking</title><content type='html'>My first very first thought this morning was &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;'David Sedaris is sort of like a gay Woody Allen'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder what sort of tone that will set for the day&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-2317946467434934379?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2317946467434934379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2317946467434934379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/03/upon-waking.html' title='upon waking'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-6280587650675949395</id><published>2009-03-22T19:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-22T19:20:46.776-07:00</updated><title type='text'>exposed legs and humping pigeons</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/ScbxoSwoVKI/AAAAAAAAB0Y/iDTKOMZJz3M/s1600-h/3359433508_d089835b04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/ScbxoSwoVKI/AAAAAAAAB0Y/iDTKOMZJz3M/s400/3359433508_d089835b04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316202084690318498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spring is here!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-6280587650675949395?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6280587650675949395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6280587650675949395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/03/blog-post.html' title='exposed legs and humping pigeons'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/ScbxoSwoVKI/AAAAAAAAB0Y/iDTKOMZJz3M/s72-c/3359433508_d089835b04.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-7664450452514909300</id><published>2009-03-14T21:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-14T21:14:41.980-07:00</updated><title type='text'>easy listening</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mN3YFReThi0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mN3YFReThi0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this song calms.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-7664450452514909300?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7664450452514909300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7664450452514909300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/03/easy-listening.html' title='easy listening'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-7910549026554984848</id><published>2009-03-10T19:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-10T19:34:33.805-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SbcjAqGvlKI/AAAAAAAAB0Q/5ogps8af2vo/s1600-h/il_fullxfull56471916.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 366px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SbcjAqGvlKI/AAAAAAAAB0Q/5ogps8af2vo/s400/il_fullxfull56471916.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311752779716334754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think it's important to take one's winter apparel seriously.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-7910549026554984848?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7910549026554984848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7910549026554984848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-think-its-important-to-take-ones.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SbcjAqGvlKI/AAAAAAAAB0Q/5ogps8af2vo/s72-c/il_fullxfull56471916.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-4514707168619569352</id><published>2009-03-04T21:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-04T21:56:03.380-08:00</updated><title type='text'>ladies I dont know</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Sa9ogNsfgzI/AAAAAAAAB0I/_b4lE7qSJwk/s1600-h/cRZ8uQBSFkm3nhlkduD1ArH6o1_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Sa9ogNsfgzI/AAAAAAAAB0I/_b4lE7qSJwk/s400/cRZ8uQBSFkm3nhlkduD1ArH6o1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309577388334482226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Sa9of6zPWqI/AAAAAAAAB0A/2Of6_OBYZPA/s1600-h/phpThumb_generated_thumbnailjpg.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Sa9of6zPWqI/AAAAAAAAB0A/2Of6_OBYZPA/s400/phpThumb_generated_thumbnailjpg.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309577383262509730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Sa9ofsA_t0I/AAAAAAAABz4/ZFhEWlqeX0c/s1600-h/6a00d83451596669e2011168a0454e970c-350wi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 262px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Sa9ofsA_t0I/AAAAAAAABz4/ZFhEWlqeX0c/s400/6a00d83451596669e2011168a0454e970c-350wi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309577379293673282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but feel that I would like.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-4514707168619569352?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4514707168619569352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4514707168619569352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/03/ladies-i-dont-know.html' title='ladies I dont know'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/Sa9ogNsfgzI/AAAAAAAAB0I/_b4lE7qSJwk/s72-c/cRZ8uQBSFkm3nhlkduD1ArH6o1_500.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-1485441633956576098</id><published>2009-03-04T18:44:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-04T18:46:28.477-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Best Alarm Clock Ever</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aetkvFu1EYo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aetkvFu1EYo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if only Paul Rudd could do this dance at the foot of my bed every morning.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-1485441633956576098?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1485441633956576098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1485441633956576098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/03/best-alarm-clock-ever.html' title='Best Alarm Clock Ever'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-738043250588701551</id><published>2009-02-23T13:14:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-23T13:15:04.423-08:00</updated><title type='text'>DANG!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SaMR0U5cWWI/AAAAAAAABzw/ofGTCAw2MZ0/s1600-h/2009-02-22-vivianecastro.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SaMR0U5cWWI/AAAAAAAABzw/ofGTCAw2MZ0/s400/2009-02-22-vivianecastro.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306104376633088354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-738043250588701551?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/738043250588701551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/738043250588701551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/02/dang.html' title='DANG!'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SaMR0U5cWWI/AAAAAAAABzw/ofGTCAw2MZ0/s72-c/2009-02-22-vivianecastro.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-6748523817982024919</id><published>2009-02-21T15:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-21T15:21:54.749-08:00</updated><title type='text'>doesnt take much to make me laugh:</title><content type='html'>Charles Dickens walks into a bar... and orders a martini.&lt;br /&gt; The bartender says, "Olive or twist?"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-6748523817982024919?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6748523817982024919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6748523817982024919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/02/charles-dickens-walks-into-bar.html' title='doesnt take much to make me laugh:'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-1501015786676193560</id><published>2009-02-11T14:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-11T14:22:52.042-08:00</updated><title type='text'>gummi bear army of love</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SZNPsup_ECI/AAAAAAAABzo/jyDawx3uXAs/s1600-h/3263134651_82c3b055d1-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SZNPsup_ECI/AAAAAAAABzo/jyDawx3uXAs/s400/3263134651_82c3b055d1-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301668816202174498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-1501015786676193560?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1501015786676193560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1501015786676193560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/02/gummi-bear-army-of-love.html' title='gummi bear army of love'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SZNPsup_ECI/AAAAAAAABzo/jyDawx3uXAs/s72-c/3263134651_82c3b055d1-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-7790333981926034372</id><published>2009-02-09T01:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-09T01:37:32.851-08:00</updated><title type='text'>current mood</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SY_5Po7UGoI/AAAAAAAABzQ/kt3T3QFYNRk/s1600-h/2256038880_3e3376659c_o4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SY_5Po7UGoI/AAAAAAAABzQ/kt3T3QFYNRk/s400/2256038880_3e3376659c_o4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300729333517916802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SY_5PX3cGKI/AAAAAAAABzI/Sw0NG0Szxmo/s1600-h/2615267559_6c9aef1ca7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SY_5PX3cGKI/AAAAAAAABzI/Sw0NG0Szxmo/s400/2615267559_6c9aef1ca7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300729328938260642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-7790333981926034372?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7790333981926034372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7790333981926034372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/02/current-mood.html' title='current mood'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SY_5Po7UGoI/AAAAAAAABzQ/kt3T3QFYNRk/s72-c/2256038880_3e3376659c_o4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-4497722519491988410</id><published>2009-01-31T16:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-31T16:20:09.067-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>timing is everything if &lt;br /&gt;you've got nothing but time&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-4497722519491988410?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4497722519491988410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4497722519491988410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/timing-is-everything-if-youve-got.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-5475684802157904287</id><published>2009-01-30T09:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-30T09:50:07.087-08:00</updated><title type='text'>nature AND nurture</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYM9wdHoCkI/AAAAAAAABzA/nNhNrdvnCfQ/s1600-h/Image-A96DED42D1E711DB.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYM9wdHoCkI/AAAAAAAABzA/nNhNrdvnCfQ/s400/Image-A96DED42D1E711DB.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297145489377462850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYM7vRQ6tqI/AAAAAAAABy4/UrwhxHQL6Lc/s1600-h/8640516.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 333px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYM7vRQ6tqI/AAAAAAAABy4/UrwhxHQL6Lc/s400/8640516.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297143269992085154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYM7S1Vq0RI/AAAAAAAAByw/2fPXeol-_ZE/s1600-h/3255654.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 333px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYM7S1Vq0RI/AAAAAAAAByw/2fPXeol-_ZE/s400/3255654.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297142781459484946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYM7S8iLlAI/AAAAAAAAByo/7QC9xcK9ACM/s1600-h/Image-8A641D6B471F11DB.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYM7S8iLlAI/AAAAAAAAByo/7QC9xcK9ACM/s400/Image-8A641D6B471F11DB.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297142783391011842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYM7S5MmFAI/AAAAAAAAByg/8rmowOGG55M/s1600-h/Image-A96D902CD1E711DB.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYM7S5MmFAI/AAAAAAAAByg/8rmowOGG55M/s400/Image-A96D902CD1E711DB.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297142782495167490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYM7SfoV2rI/AAAAAAAAByY/rClpexFbDH4/s1600-h/8216554.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYM7SfoV2rI/AAAAAAAAByY/rClpexFbDH4/s400/8216554.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297142775632222898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Artist Elaine Bradford's wonderful creations!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-5475684802157904287?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5475684802157904287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5475684802157904287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/nature-and-nurture.html' title='nature AND nurture'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYM9wdHoCkI/AAAAAAAABzA/nNhNrdvnCfQ/s72-c/Image-A96DED42D1E711DB.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-6638665955270201192</id><published>2009-01-30T09:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-30T09:07:29.628-08:00</updated><title type='text'>She uses window light to read.  Essential window light.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYMzimuKNeI/AAAAAAAAByQ/zVPNTbgsZwY/s1600-h/donie+29+done.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYMzimuKNeI/AAAAAAAAByQ/zVPNTbgsZwY/s400/donie+29+done.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297134256320558562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-6638665955270201192?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6638665955270201192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6638665955270201192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/she-uses-window-light-to-read-essential.html' title='She uses window light to read.  Essential window light.'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYMzimuKNeI/AAAAAAAAByQ/zVPNTbgsZwY/s72-c/donie+29+done.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-2911687167482789796</id><published>2009-01-29T23:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-30T08:49:46.408-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Gatsby dippin'</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;there was a jauntiness about her movements, as if she had first learned to walk upon golf courses on clean, crisp mornings&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;F. Scott works a mean pen.  Had forgotten how enjoyable he was to read.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-2911687167482789796?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2911687167482789796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2911687167482789796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/gatsby-dippin.html' title='Gatsby dippin&apos;'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-1012435232665347685</id><published>2009-01-29T21:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T21:27:01.219-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYKPUmYW5wI/AAAAAAAAByA/-qdLnmllvG8/s1600-h/15.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYKPUmYW5wI/AAAAAAAAByA/-qdLnmllvG8/s400/15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296953695803991810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maira Kalman and I are opting for a moment of blissful naivete instead of deep question asking.  Hurray.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-1012435232665347685?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1012435232665347685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1012435232665347685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/maira-kalman-and-i-are-opting-for.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYKPUmYW5wI/AAAAAAAAByA/-qdLnmllvG8/s72-c/15.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-519640767864263943</id><published>2009-01-29T21:02:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T21:03:39.468-08:00</updated><title type='text'>sweet dreams</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYKKCBxiICI/AAAAAAAABx4/KziMAmrLVSk/s1600-h/camera07_Houses-Bedroom-707785.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 318px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYKKCBxiICI/AAAAAAAABx4/KziMAmrLVSk/s400/camera07_Houses-Bedroom-707785.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296947879181688866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYKKCK9CeGI/AAAAAAAABxw/AePy2F2IWhI/s1600-h/camera11_Empire-State-744862.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 318px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYKKCK9CeGI/AAAAAAAABxw/AePy2F2IWhI/s400/camera11_Empire-State-744862.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296947881645865058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Camera Obscura by Abelardo Morell&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-519640767864263943?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/519640767864263943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/519640767864263943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/sweet-dreams.html' title='sweet dreams'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SYKKCBxiICI/AAAAAAAABx4/KziMAmrLVSk/s72-c/camera07_Houses-Bedroom-707785.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-3602923164473018906</id><published>2009-01-27T15:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T22:09:41.319-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Pray for the voices inside your head,&lt;br /&gt; that they wont be there when you're dead.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-3602923164473018906?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/3602923164473018906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/3602923164473018906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/pray-for-people-inside-your-head-that.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-1894334196355165695</id><published>2009-01-27T11:25:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T11:32:10.206-08:00</updated><title type='text'>missed connections: o4w</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SX9f3xwltHI/AAAAAAAABxo/RPe49KphXH4/s1600-h/zjwjvnwjlj6xnnhnomuhbvs5o1_500.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 203px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SX9f3xwltHI/AAAAAAAABxo/RPe49KphXH4/s400/zjwjvnwjlj6xnnhnomuhbvs5o1_500.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296057098665571442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-1894334196355165695?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1894334196355165695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1894334196355165695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/otter4u.html' title='missed connections: o4w'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SX9f3xwltHI/AAAAAAAABxo/RPe49KphXH4/s72-c/zjwjvnwjlj6xnnhnomuhbvs5o1_500.gif' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-1662281612958792407</id><published>2009-01-25T01:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-25T02:35:56.700-08:00</updated><title type='text'>acquaintance with the night</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXxAfbX-UbI/AAAAAAAABxg/aRhapOkDr48/s1600-h/300_89305.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXxAfbX-UbI/AAAAAAAABxg/aRhapOkDr48/s320/300_89305.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295178170549293490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An unexpected visit from insomnia ...&lt;br /&gt;Why don't I hear all these things in the day?&lt;br /&gt;The way each individual appliance makes it's own sound,&lt;br /&gt;the refrigerator is loudest and has both a chorus and a verse&lt;br /&gt;followed by the computer,&lt;br /&gt;even the lamps make noise.&lt;br /&gt;And my head is the land of unfinished sentences.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-1662281612958792407?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1662281612958792407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1662281612958792407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/acquaintance-with-night.html' title='acquaintance with the night'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXxAfbX-UbI/AAAAAAAABxg/aRhapOkDr48/s72-c/300_89305.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-6156634670884730153</id><published>2009-01-25T01:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-25T01:43:29.904-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='momversations'/><title type='text'>momversation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/R1UF_H3JLUI/AAAAAAAAAps/ZR_czfMQrgU/s1600-h/100_3531.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/R1UF_H3JLUI/AAAAAAAAAps/ZR_czfMQrgU/s200/100_3531.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140021131713523010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Me&lt;/span&gt;:   I went to a dinner party this weekend and met some nice people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Mom&lt;/span&gt;:   That's nice.  Do you think you'll see any of them again?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Me&lt;/span&gt;:    Yes, actually.  One of them invited me to a party she's having next week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Mom&lt;/span&gt;:   Wow.  Thats like icing on a cake that already has icing!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-6156634670884730153?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6156634670884730153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6156634670884730153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/momversation.html' title='momversation'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/R1UF_H3JLUI/AAAAAAAAAps/ZR_czfMQrgU/s72-c/100_3531.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-2091434931073272018</id><published>2009-01-24T21:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-24T21:51:21.340-08:00</updated><title type='text'>do you remember where you parked?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXv8OIkKvJI/AAAAAAAABxY/P3XPRLtdzRg/s1600-h/xsheerness-8359.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 248px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXv8OIkKvJI/AAAAAAAABxY/P3XPRLtdzRg/s400/xsheerness-8359.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295103106651700370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXv8N3cWHwI/AAAAAAAABxQ/lwrlwZjLS3M/s1600-h/xcorby-1438.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 248px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXv8N3cWHwI/AAAAAAAABxQ/lwrlwZjLS3M/s400/xcorby-1438.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295103102055489282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXv8N3FQpVI/AAAAAAAABxI/UfsgTZYHVJE/s1600-h/xvalencia-180.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 248px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXv8N3FQpVI/AAAAAAAABxI/UfsgTZYHVJE/s400/xvalencia-180.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295103101958661458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXv8Nje0A2I/AAAAAAAABxA/L3Bt-typaAM/s1600-h/xnewark-829.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXv8Nje0A2I/AAAAAAAABxA/L3Bt-typaAM/s400/xnewark-829.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295103096697127778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXv8NcwuKpI/AAAAAAAABw4/5fJEZNZl1Qs/s1600-h/xhonda-9536.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 248px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXv8NcwuKpI/AAAAAAAABw4/5fJEZNZl1Qs/s400/xhonda-9536.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295103094893193874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stunning pictures of the growing stocks of unsold cars...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-2091434931073272018?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2091434931073272018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2091434931073272018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/do-you-remember-where-you-parked.html' title='do you remember where you parked?'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXv8OIkKvJI/AAAAAAAABxY/P3XPRLtdzRg/s72-c/xsheerness-8359.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-3462050176356123425</id><published>2009-01-20T20:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-08-26T15:59:37.497-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='momversations'/><title type='text'>Lolly Wins!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXaioyAc99I/AAAAAAAABvo/RW1W5Ippg0U/s1600-h/LOLLY+WINS!.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXaioyAc99I/AAAAAAAABvo/RW1W5Ippg0U/s400/LOLLY+WINS!.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293597233522735058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mom recently won "runner-up" in a free-style drawing contest...her prize was a silver headdress and a set of fur pasties.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-3462050176356123425?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/3462050176356123425'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/3462050176356123425'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/lolly-wins.html' title='Lolly Wins!'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SXaioyAc99I/AAAAAAAABvo/RW1W5Ippg0U/s72-c/LOLLY+WINS!.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-8650337763687824449</id><published>2009-01-10T22:28:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-10T22:28:49.301-08:00</updated><title type='text'>LINT</title><content type='html'>Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Richard Brautigan&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-8650337763687824449?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/8650337763687824449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/8650337763687824449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/lint.html' title='LINT'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-8530872768937811622</id><published>2009-01-06T10:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-05T16:20:15.144-08:00</updated><title type='text'>birds in the kitchen</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vMXqn42AykM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vMXqn42AykM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Theresa Andersson, A young Swedish Girl living in New Orleans, ridiculously talented, making music in her kitchen...and she is cooking up a big pot of happy!  Git yer spoon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-8530872768937811622?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/8530872768937811622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/8530872768937811622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/birds-in-kitchen.html' title='birds in the kitchen'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-6557136551543474079</id><published>2009-01-05T17:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-05T17:52:23.805-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SWK5UhP7PVI/AAAAAAAABvY/ZL2R0NMLErk/s1600-h/less-hippies-more-puppies.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 377px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SWK5UhP7PVI/AAAAAAAABvY/ZL2R0NMLErk/s400/less-hippies-more-puppies.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287992674660072786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-6557136551543474079?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6557136551543474079'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6557136551543474079'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SWK5UhP7PVI/AAAAAAAABvY/ZL2R0NMLErk/s72-c/less-hippies-more-puppies.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-2352375439458535103</id><published>2009-01-05T17:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-06T10:31:25.833-08:00</updated><title type='text'>voyeurism via craigslist</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The girl who took a dump in the Art Institute parking lot! - m4w&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Date: 2008-12-03, 11:53PM PST&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mean, come on! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was like 50 paces to the nearest restroom! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sat there in my car wondering what the hell you were up to - you spent at least 2 minutes scurrying around your parked car, looking to see if the coast was clear. I thought you were going to, like, break into someone else's car or something. Then I guessed you thought you were "safe" and hurried to the front of your car, near the third level stairwell, dropped your pants, squatted and WENT TO IT! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Christ's sake, woman! All the time you spent looking out for passing cars so no one would see you crapping like a dog in public, you could have hustled your lazy ass downstairs and into the building and USED THE DAMNED RESTROOM! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sheesh! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway - if you're free later, drop me a line. I was never more turned on in my life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Location: Santa Monica&lt;br /&gt;it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-2352375439458535103?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2352375439458535103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2352375439458535103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/voyeurism-served-up-craigslist-style.html' title='voyeurism via craigslist'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-6997170845858681703</id><published>2009-01-03T23:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-03T23:43:24.370-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Old Dog Love</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GsQSdyKiu9A&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GsQSdyKiu9A&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An  homage to a swell dog who is turning 16 on Monday...as his owner puts it "a minor tribute to a major player"&lt;br /&gt;Be sure to read the credits and then loosen your shirt cause your heart might swell a tad.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-6997170845858681703?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6997170845858681703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6997170845858681703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2009/01/old-dog-love.html' title='Old Dog Love'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-1943042171472731875</id><published>2008-12-24T11:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-25T00:20:04.049-08:00</updated><title type='text'>rill purdy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SVKPCRbqCYI/AAAAAAAABvQ/Dj6nrSCrGY8/s1600-h/2m8BXUfrihmmuabvVOgLOZSNo1_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SVKPCRbqCYI/AAAAAAAABvQ/Dj6nrSCrGY8/s400/2m8BXUfrihmmuabvVOgLOZSNo1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283442582060927362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-1943042171472731875?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1943042171472731875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1943042171472731875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/12/rull-purdy.html' title='rill purdy'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SVKPCRbqCYI/AAAAAAAABvQ/Dj6nrSCrGY8/s72-c/2m8BXUfrihmmuabvVOgLOZSNo1_500.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-359985996638545313</id><published>2008-12-23T10:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-23T10:45:28.231-08:00</updated><title type='text'>good winter</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mebt2holvps&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mebt2holvps&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-359985996638545313?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/359985996638545313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/359985996638545313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/12/good-winter.html' title='good winter'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-7619328569739978149</id><published>2008-12-19T10:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-19T10:17:04.832-08:00</updated><title type='text'>mottos of the states</title><content type='html'>I dont know what possessed me this morning to look up state mottos ...  but I did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;standouts:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Kansas &lt;/span&gt;       &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;To the stars through adversity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Maine &lt;/span&gt;         &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt; I direct&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Maryland&lt;/span&gt;     &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Manly deeds, womanly words&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Minnesota&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;I long to see what is beyond&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Oregon   &lt;/span&gt;     &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;She flies with her own wings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-7619328569739978149?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7619328569739978149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7619328569739978149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/12/mottos-of-states.html' title='mottos of the states'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-6137714564384959567</id><published>2008-12-19T09:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-19T09:39:16.638-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SUvaxFLR4xI/AAAAAAAABu8/7bzC7EeIxek/s1600-h/IMG_0006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SUvaxFLR4xI/AAAAAAAABu8/7bzC7EeIxek/s400/IMG_0006.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281555524759970578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-6137714564384959567?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6137714564384959567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6137714564384959567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SUvaxFLR4xI/AAAAAAAABu8/7bzC7EeIxek/s72-c/IMG_0006.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-6341692825377829150</id><published>2008-12-13T16:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T16:51:34.900-08:00</updated><title type='text'>2 heads are better than 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SURYd_PEVHI/AAAAAAAABu0/SywfD6RtFOo/s1600-h/73ByENgdphg0qjjtDOFOUy4mo1_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SURYd_PEVHI/AAAAAAAABu0/SywfD6RtFOo/s400/73ByENgdphg0qjjtDOFOUy4mo1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279441935399146610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-6341692825377829150?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6341692825377829150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6341692825377829150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/12/2-heads-are-better-than-1.html' title='2 heads are better than 1'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SURYd_PEVHI/AAAAAAAABu0/SywfD6RtFOo/s72-c/73ByENgdphg0qjjtDOFOUy4mo1_500.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-8429753839434342741</id><published>2008-12-10T14:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T14:17:52.822-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>If you can't be interesting, be nice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;- Carrie Fisher&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-8429753839434342741?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/8429753839434342741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/8429753839434342741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/12/if-you-cant-be-interesting-be-nice.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-1867026653465053227</id><published>2008-12-08T18:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T01:51:50.445-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='momversations'/><title type='text'>Momversations:  a movie review</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/R1UF_H3JLUI/AAAAAAAAAps/ZR_czfMQrgU/s1600-h/100_3531.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/R1UF_H3JLUI/AAAAAAAAAps/ZR_czfMQrgU/s200/100_3531.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140021131713523010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Mom&lt;/span&gt;:  I went to see that movie, Australia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Me&lt;/span&gt;:  Oh really, how was it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Mom&lt;/span&gt;:  Well I didnt really like it at all, it was too big and hard to focus on, and that lead man Hugh Jackson, the way his body is built...well, those arent the kind of muscles you get from the outside like a real man, he has the kind of muscles you get inside, like from an exercise place.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-1867026653465053227?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1867026653465053227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1867026653465053227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/12/momversations-movie-review.html' title='Momversations:  a movie review'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/R1UF_H3JLUI/AAAAAAAAAps/ZR_czfMQrgU/s72-c/100_3531.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-4848182962006440690</id><published>2008-12-08T11:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T16:01:37.502-08:00</updated><title type='text'>In Memory of John Lennon</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/o2wMp0ZBPGE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/o2wMp0ZBPGE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on the anniversary of his death&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A beautiful tribute by Paul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and this..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rss-ZVgZz9g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rss-ZVgZz9g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-4848182962006440690?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4848182962006440690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4848182962006440690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-memory-of-john-lennon.html' title='In Memory of John Lennon'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-2365145187039499783</id><published>2008-12-05T20:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-05T20:12:15.021-08:00</updated><title type='text'>play with your food.</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qBjLW5_dGAM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qBjLW5_dGAM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still in recovery from being a professional eater and mother hostess (1 week of Mom, S O L I D)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on that later...please enjoy stop-motion food stylings of PES.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-2365145187039499783?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2365145187039499783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2365145187039499783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/12/play-with-your-food.html' title='play with your food.'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-8470371000691608051</id><published>2008-11-20T21:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-23T08:26:30.664-08:00</updated><title type='text'>jail mail</title><content type='html'>What follows is one of many letters that a friend of mine receives from a prison inmate. The letters arrive with the words "STATE PRISON GENERATED MAIL" stamped across the envelope in bold print, which to both of us seems far more exotic than a postmark from say, Tanzania or Bhutan.  I'm honoring my friend's request to stay mum about the whos and the whys of how this all came to be.  But the writing is extraordinary, and the stories...well, unbelievably colorful considering they come from a place that I've always imagined to be black, white and grey--- &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;I hope you’re doing well.  It’s the kind of hope shipwrecked sailors have when they wash up on the shore of a foreign place.  I can’t imagine what your life is like.  I choose to believe that it is strange.  Tell me so that I can live vicariously.  Mine of course is Tim Burton strange.  My clothes are blue and shabby but clean.  A lot of the fellows here go to lengths in their dress as if it mattered; but I don’t care. My pants are worn and frayed, my white T-shirts stretched out and grey, and my dirty brown boots look something like a lumberjack’s at the end of his career.  I continue to breathe, life isn’t so bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cellie situation is vastly improved.  Let’s recap: My good cellie, David Berlin, got a single cell, something I can’t begrudge, it’s so valuable.  Privacy! Precious and impossible for me.  Then, my San Diego homeboy, Jimmy Hatfield, a self-professed lunatic, moved in and immediately went lunatic, accused me of stealing his filthy plastic coffee cup and a 3 cent envelope.  He roamed the yard while I was at work and told skeptical mutual acquaintances that I was robbing and persecuting him.  After a month of dramatic chaos he moved out; and Bill Garrett moved in.  He seemed like a good fellow even with his 6 boxes of legal problems.  Before he moved in I advised him that I was an insomniac who read late into the night.  “Fine,” Bill said, but within 48 hours it wasn’t fine and he took to sighing explosively from 9 p.m. until I turned out the light.  He is a light sleeper and my page turning kept him awake; he suggested his health was beginning to fail thanks to sleep depravation.  I’ve heard (or made up and have come to believe) that sighing for hours is unhealthy, but he didn’t believe me.  Bill needs his sleep because he is suing every other agency in California for a variety of indignities foisted upon him.  He’s suing the doctors here because they won’t give him amphetamine, which he thinks will cure his ADD.  He has to get up at 5 a.m. (which truly didn’t bother me) to watch an obscure religious figure in order to gird himself for a day of typing, filing documents and looking up obscure case law that supports his insupportable positions.  Bill is doing 35 to Life and is convinced his legal machinations will soon release him, a common delusion, though a necessary one.  One night he asked me what kind of job he should get when he’s finally released—I suggested he should get a job breaking in other people’s shoes.  An angry Bill said I wasn’t taking him seriously, and then he moved out.  Then...I luckily met a goofy guy, nothing like me in countless ways, but has a sense of humor about himself, isn’t a casetalker, and he has a kitchen job that occupies most of his days; neither Bill nor Jimmy worked.  However, my new cellie’s name is Booger.  I don’t know why yet.  What’s in a name?  I don’t know.  My occasional friend Rich is toying with his name.  I got him a job in the library and then orchestrated his getting the head clerk job, which I turned down because I prefer to be the Overlord back in the stacks.  Rich immediately went mad with power, something that happens to convicts often once they begin working closely with free staff or the police.  A little Stockholm Syndrome I guess. Rich famously came out of the closet about 3 months into the job, surprising us all; he’d so efficiently portrayed himself as a S.F. stoner partial to women.  We clash on the subject of his authority (he is only supposed to check out books and run the main computer) because he is lording his new (nonexistent) powers over the other librarians.  Ultimately, I don’t care except that the rest of the crew complains to me, saying I’ve created a Frankenstein.  Rich has embraced his feminine side to the point where he’s started taking hormones, and tells me this as a way of explaining his moodiness.  A day later he very tersely tells me, “I wish you’d call me by my new name.”  Puzzled, I say, “I’m sorry?”  Too angrily for my tastes, he says, “My name is Feather.  Everyone calls me that except you.”  Three other librarians standing nearby, to a man, say things like, “Feather?  Rich is Feather?  Did you know that?”  Rich then yelled at all of us, “My name is Feather!”—“Dude, seriously, you’ve been Rich to me for like a year.  I had no idea.”  Angrier yet, he hisses at me, “I’d just like you to give me the respect of going by my new name.”  I am nonplussed and momentarily at a loss.  Besides the librarians, a half dozen patrons are enjoying the wrangle.  I finally say, “Alright, fine, I want you to call me Tumbleweed.”  (which just popped out with little thought, but after a couple days with most of the library workers calling me Tumbleweed, I sort of like it); and then another worker, Wadley, an odd Muslim man who goes for weeks without talking to anyone, suddenly pipes up in his unusual Louisiana accent, “I wanna be Desert Hawk!”; and the 68 year old Mexican, Larry, yells, “My name is Boner!”  a nickname he’s been trying to get us to call him for months.  The upshot is that a lot of people here are now calling me Tumbleweed.  You can call me whatever you want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-8470371000691608051?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/8470371000691608051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/8470371000691608051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/11/jail-mail.html' title='jail mail'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-1356018789899645242</id><published>2008-11-17T11:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-17T11:48:12.487-08:00</updated><title type='text'>going on---getting down</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ENE1eWtW7e8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ENE1eWtW7e8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;love Love LOVE this video and song...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-1356018789899645242?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1356018789899645242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1356018789899645242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/11/going-on-getting-down.html' title='going on---getting down'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-5613429036400926704</id><published>2008-11-15T09:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-08-26T16:00:19.072-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='momversations'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SR8Bh_sBbwI/AAAAAAAABus/iyjdqxws-mQ/s1600-h/xl.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SR8Bh_sBbwI/AAAAAAAABus/iyjdqxws-mQ/s400/xl.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268931772590157570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mom and her friend Sandy make the pages of &lt;a href="http://advancedstyle.blogspot.com"&gt;advanced style&lt;/a&gt; with these inspired outfits.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-5613429036400926704?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5613429036400926704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5613429036400926704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/11/mom-and-her-friend-sandy-make-pages-of.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SR8Bh_sBbwI/AAAAAAAABus/iyjdqxws-mQ/s72-c/xl.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-5628001126608533112</id><published>2008-11-14T15:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T15:18:44.699-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SR4HJSO1zlI/AAAAAAAABuk/jg0-hyGnZks/s1600-h/7J0sZfajbga8ph1aAYhDP1klo1_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SR4HJSO1zlI/AAAAAAAABuk/jg0-hyGnZks/s400/7J0sZfajbga8ph1aAYhDP1klo1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268656470164360786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-5628001126608533112?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5628001126608533112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5628001126608533112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post_14.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SR4HJSO1zlI/AAAAAAAABuk/jg0-hyGnZks/s72-c/7J0sZfajbga8ph1aAYhDP1klo1_500.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-9069269283226912724</id><published>2008-11-12T15:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T16:38:58.291-08:00</updated><title type='text'>today I will feel like Buster Keaton's face</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRthX8S2DzI/AAAAAAAABuM/IqmzY-0iHzs/s1600-h/buster_keaton_372x495.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 301px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRthX8S2DzI/AAAAAAAABuM/IqmzY-0iHzs/s400/buster_keaton_372x495.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267911253089980210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRthXFFYsVI/AAAAAAAABuE/QrUf-EHVYng/s1600-h/keaton1.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 346px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRthXFFYsVI/AAAAAAAABuE/QrUf-EHVYng/s400/keaton1.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267911238269579602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRthWuslnEI/AAAAAAAABt8/FgM7eVKpUBo/s1600-h/bk-cfobk.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 302px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRthWuslnEI/AAAAAAAABt8/FgM7eVKpUBo/s400/bk-cfobk.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267911232259988546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRthWJOAJCI/AAAAAAAABt0/8bppSQ8GKdM/s1600-h/BusterKeaton.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 276px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRthWJOAJCI/AAAAAAAABt0/8bppSQ8GKdM/s400/BusterKeaton.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267911222199591970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day starts fine enough, the sun comes out.  But, a series of emails/phone calls/random unfortunate circumstances  will all but blot out the sun for me, and I  will find myself getting introverted, insecure and depressed...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an attempt to shake off the blues I will decide to ride my bike to the post office ( about 2 miles away) to buy stamps.  Unfortunately, when I arrive, the stamp vending machine will be out of order and there will be a VERY long line for the  service windows.  Had I driven, well, lets just say I would have turned around and gotten back in my car.  As is sometimes the case with government offices, things will not run well---or follow rules of logic...like, for instance, one of the 3 employees  will choose to "take a break" although there is a line stretching nearly out the door.  Twenty minutes later I will purchase my stamps ( a sheet commemorating &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Latin Jazz&lt;/span&gt;, bright and cheery --- not at all like Buster Keaton's face)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRtl8wmZj5I/AAAAAAAABuU/kB1yMroGM1w/s1600-h/latinjazz_300dpi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRtl8wmZj5I/AAAAAAAABuU/kB1yMroGM1w/s400/latinjazz_300dpi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267916283652444050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; and I  will stuff them in my back pocket and decide to take a long route home ( as I am still determined to lift the funk) and I will ride, fraudulently carefree, through some of the more beautiful parts of town.  I will be about 30 minutes into the scenic ride  home when I realize that the stamps are no longer in my pocket.  I  will decide (with determined hope) that it must have &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;just &lt;/span&gt;happened and  I will begin to retrace my route...which  will ultimately bring me right back to the post office.  I will not find my stamps and  I will realize that I dont have enough cash to buy another set and that I have been gone for over 2 hours and haven't  accomplished any of the things I set out to do:&lt;br /&gt;1) get stamps&lt;br /&gt;2) get out of victimy, sad sack frame of mind by riding bike and getting fresh air&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well, technically I did get fresh air.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-9069269283226912724?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/9069269283226912724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/9069269283226912724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/11/today-i-feel-like-buster-keatons-face.html' title='today I will feel like Buster Keaton&apos;s face'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRthX8S2DzI/AAAAAAAABuM/IqmzY-0iHzs/s72-c/buster_keaton_372x495.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-5457703524539106975</id><published>2008-11-07T13:36:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-07T13:41:43.534-08:00</updated><title type='text'>report to hq</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRS15edzpiI/AAAAAAAABts/LtDkRIW64II/s1600-h/2m8BXUfrifvf1bb4Q985HlCpo1_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRS15edzpiI/AAAAAAAABts/LtDkRIW64II/s400/2m8BXUfrifvf1bb4Q985HlCpo1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266033863338206754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRS15TsRZgI/AAAAAAAABtk/eWUho4zwM4s/s1600-h/pigeon6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 257px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRS15TsRZgI/AAAAAAAABtk/eWUho4zwM4s/s400/pigeon6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266033860446086658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRS1l9hFmSI/AAAAAAAABtU/N80fP55heqE/s1600-h/2m8BXUfrig026a35JP5Ri8xko1_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRS1l9hFmSI/AAAAAAAABtU/N80fP55heqE/s400/2m8BXUfrig026a35JP5Ri8xko1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266033528076081442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRS1lQD8tOI/AAAAAAAABtM/4U4C9k5FYsE/s1600-h/2m8BXUfrig02855oPHWYQZ1Vo1_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 292px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRS1lQD8tOI/AAAAAAAABtM/4U4C9k5FYsE/s400/2m8BXUfrig02855oPHWYQZ1Vo1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266033515874268386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRS1lc919aI/AAAAAAAABtE/MmTcVg8O0Zc/s1600-h/2m8BXUfrifzwrhqq1ZxysEA0o1_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 234px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRS1lc919aI/AAAAAAAABtE/MmTcVg8O0Zc/s400/2m8BXUfrifzwrhqq1ZxysEA0o1_500.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266033519338321314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-5457703524539106975?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5457703524539106975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5457703524539106975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/11/everything-is-interesting.html' title='report to hq'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRS15edzpiI/AAAAAAAABts/LtDkRIW64II/s72-c/2m8BXUfrifvf1bb4Q985HlCpo1_500.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-3908073587504855206</id><published>2008-11-06T09:25:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-06T09:29:41.974-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Honey McClellan of Joshua Tree</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRMpXZiuH9I/AAAAAAAABs8/uEvm6vbT8GA/s1600-h/100_5208.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRMpXZiuH9I/AAAAAAAABs8/uEvm6vbT8GA/s400/100_5208.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265597871296487378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRMpW1cqxzI/AAAAAAAABs0/q2sZui8GFrc/s1600-h/100_5200.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRMpW1cqxzI/AAAAAAAABs0/q2sZui8GFrc/s400/100_5200.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265597861607425842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRMpVxqwfzI/AAAAAAAABss/7b2_7Q_F0VM/s1600-h/100_5203.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRMpVxqwfzI/AAAAAAAABss/7b2_7Q_F0VM/s400/100_5203.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265597843412909874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-3908073587504855206?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/3908073587504855206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/3908073587504855206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/11/honey-mcclellan-of-joshua-tree.html' title='Honey McClellan of Joshua Tree'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRMpXZiuH9I/AAAAAAAABs8/uEvm6vbT8GA/s72-c/100_5208.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-2683784977506640334</id><published>2008-11-06T09:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-06T09:30:42.856-08:00</updated><title type='text'>some moods</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRMn4CBizTI/AAAAAAAABsk/UtgJf6CUf2A/s1600-h/9278Little-StarWeb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRMn4CBizTI/AAAAAAAABsk/UtgJf6CUf2A/s400/9278Little-StarWeb.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265596232895745330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRMn3wVu-NI/AAAAAAAABsc/4Vpuw30sGxo/s1600-h/dostoyevsky3+done.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRMn3wVu-NI/AAAAAAAABsc/4Vpuw30sGxo/s400/dostoyevsky3+done.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265596228148590802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRMn3gRf0EI/AAAAAAAABsU/SIsXMpUW8rA/s1600-h/Picture+5.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRMn3gRf0EI/AAAAAAAABsU/SIsXMpUW8rA/s400/Picture+5.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265596223835852866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-2683784977506640334?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2683784977506640334'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2683784977506640334'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post.html' title='some moods'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRMn4CBizTI/AAAAAAAABsk/UtgJf6CUf2A/s72-c/9278Little-StarWeb.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-7976203090716790282</id><published>2008-11-06T08:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-06T08:31:22.443-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kTVSygNKAsg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kTVSygNKAsg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I cant think of anything to say that wouldnt be a cliche...but I love this damn video.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-7976203090716790282?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7976203090716790282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7976203090716790282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-cant-think-of-anything-to-say-that.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-1537029090906231174</id><published>2008-11-05T14:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T14:13:27.593-08:00</updated><title type='text'>our leader</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRIaZpzdGBI/AAAAAAAABsM/YR6QPc6lJBc/s1600-h/obama420.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 312px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRIaZpzdGBI/AAAAAAAABsM/YR6QPc6lJBc/s400/obama420.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265299942370252818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-1537029090906231174?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1537029090906231174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1537029090906231174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/11/our-leader.html' title='our leader'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SRIaZpzdGBI/AAAAAAAABsM/YR6QPc6lJBc/s72-c/obama420.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-2562225270361468921</id><published>2008-11-04T14:36:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T14:36:45.593-08:00</updated><title type='text'>the audacity of hope</title><content type='html'>When my brother and I were kids our grandmother  gave us stuffed elephants to put on our beds on the eve of the presidential elections and told us that "we were  a republican family and to remember that because it's very important!  Dont forget to say your prayers for the republicans!".  As adults I dont think either of us has ever voted republican, but our 75 year old mother, dutiful old guard, red state living sweetie pie that she is--well, that line of thinking is a safe, cozy blanket.  About 2 years ago she did  tearfully express to me that she had regretted voting for George W, that she didnt understand how it had gone so wrong.  This year she felt "safe" again with McCain, she attended a republican rally, she went to see Sarah Palin speak.  My brother and I respectfully talked to her about why she should consider turning blue this year.  Sometimes I heard myself getting impassioned and soapboxy (which is as effective as pelting someone with tropical flavored skittles) but as election day neared I mostly just wanted her to feel GOOD about whomever she cast her vote for.  Saturday she was still leaning towards McCain.  On Sunday, my brother went over and watched the Obama "infomercial" with her, and tried to answer any questions that she might have.  When I talked to him that night he felt that she was still very much on the fence.  Last night, she called and told me she had made a decision and that she felt very good about it and it was the right choice for her...and then she said "I'm voting for Barack Obama".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No stuffed elephants on the bed last night, but lots of tears.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-2562225270361468921?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2562225270361468921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2562225270361468921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/11/audacity-of-hope.html' title='the audacity of hope'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-2186529782496072192</id><published>2008-10-14T14:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-14T18:11:40.836-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Today's Obsession</title><content type='html'>THIS VIDEO&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EURZuzHyWb0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EURZuzHyWb0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;funny&lt;br /&gt;sweet&lt;br /&gt;creepy&lt;br /&gt;sad&lt;br /&gt;retro&lt;br /&gt;futuristic&lt;br /&gt;sparkly&lt;br /&gt;hot choreography&lt;br /&gt;galaxy children&lt;br /&gt;jewel tones&lt;br /&gt;awkward&lt;br /&gt;perfection&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-2186529782496072192?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2186529782496072192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2186529782496072192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/10/todays-obsession.html' title='Today&apos;s Obsession'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-4669774363189424128</id><published>2008-10-11T23:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-12T00:18:05.672-07:00</updated><title type='text'>advanced style</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SPGkkEXbeTI/AAAAAAAABsE/M-jf0QVrv2k/s1600-h/DSC_3750.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SPGkkEXbeTI/AAAAAAAABsE/M-jf0QVrv2k/s400/DSC_3750.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256163179672336690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SPGkbHYI3dI/AAAAAAAABr8/9q6NgGTTMO0/s1600-h/DSCN0032.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SPGkbHYI3dI/AAAAAAAABr8/9q6NgGTTMO0/s400/DSCN0032.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256163025861795282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SPGf-x0O37I/AAAAAAAABrk/dBOy8Ddsw54/s1600-h/irisapfelnytimes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SPGf-x0O37I/AAAAAAAABrk/dBOy8Ddsw54/s400/irisapfelnytimes.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256158140991201202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SPGf_FKXnnI/AAAAAAAABrs/wg8G1Rmb0Ro/s1600-h/pink.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SPGf_FKXnnI/AAAAAAAABrs/wg8G1Rmb0Ro/s400/pink.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256158146184322674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SPGf_JxPctI/AAAAAAAABr0/3V7C8KvfCbY/s1600-h/Rose+Hat.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SPGf_JxPctI/AAAAAAAABr0/3V7C8KvfCbY/s400/Rose+Hat.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256158147421106898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-4669774363189424128?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4669774363189424128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4669774363189424128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/10/advanced-style.html' title='advanced style'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SPGkkEXbeTI/AAAAAAAABsE/M-jf0QVrv2k/s72-c/DSC_3750.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-1464987369470588586</id><published>2008-10-04T15:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T16:17:38.804-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Beautious and Wholesomonious</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HMrqBldlqzA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HMrqBldlqzA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; by the darling Swedish sister  duo (ages 15 &amp; 17) ,  First AId Kit.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just sort of reminds me of summer camp in the 70s, and the sweet girls I knew back then.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-1464987369470588586?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1464987369470588586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1464987369470588586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/10/beautious-and-wholesomonious.html' title='Beautious and Wholesomonious'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-2640413065507206918</id><published>2008-09-24T21:54:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-24T22:14:42.363-07:00</updated><title type='text'>lola rocks</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsd9LCnHbI/AAAAAAAABrc/w72yj2elHSM/s1600-h/100_5156.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsd9LCnHbI/AAAAAAAABrc/w72yj2elHSM/s400/100_5156.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249822727403412914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Hello Los Angeles!  Are you ready to ROCK?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsalrN__LI/AAAAAAAABqw/OSzSvn7oEBA/s1600-h/100_5157.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsalrN__LI/AAAAAAAABqw/OSzSvn7oEBA/s400/100_5157.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249819025189371058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsal1GPa-I/AAAAAAAABq4/8f_iMwIfUjU/s1600-h/100_5138.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsal1GPa-I/AAAAAAAABq4/8f_iMwIfUjU/s400/100_5138.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249819027841182690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsamXXa-4I/AAAAAAAABrE/4sTU8qU57DY/s1600-h/100_5142.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsamXXa-4I/AAAAAAAABrE/4sTU8qU57DY/s400/100_5142.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249819037040049026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsamsJ0i8I/AAAAAAAABrQ/bHddN89hVFo/s1600-h/100_5144.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsamsJ0i8I/AAAAAAAABrQ/bHddN89hVFo/s400/100_5144.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249819042620148674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My friends' almost 5 year old daughter, Lola, treated me her to incredible version of Rush's "Tom Sawyer" (dad on drums).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-2640413065507206918?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2640413065507206918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2640413065507206918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/09/lola-rocks.html' title='lola rocks'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsd9LCnHbI/AAAAAAAABrc/w72yj2elHSM/s72-c/100_5156.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-5262407610072042775</id><published>2008-09-24T21:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-24T21:54:04.789-07:00</updated><title type='text'>webmaster</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsZTJLo1eI/AAAAAAAABqY/l_K93QpONEQ/s1600-h/100_5118.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsZTJLo1eI/AAAAAAAABqY/l_K93QpONEQ/s400/100_5118.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249817607303386594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsZTrsJnXI/AAAAAAAABqg/zqyw-scifT0/s1600-h/100_5115.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsZTrsJnXI/AAAAAAAABqg/zqyw-scifT0/s400/100_5115.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249817616566558066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsZUbsFrNI/AAAAAAAABqo/q8clw9bleoU/s1600-h/100_5117.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsZUbsFrNI/AAAAAAAABqo/q8clw9bleoU/s400/100_5117.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249817629451201746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-5262407610072042775?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5262407610072042775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5262407610072042775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/09/webmaster.html' title='webmaster'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNsZTJLo1eI/AAAAAAAABqY/l_K93QpONEQ/s72-c/100_5118.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-1583764466906377826</id><published>2008-09-20T23:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-20T23:48:39.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'>read this out loud</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNXuJ7lwSgI/AAAAAAAABqQ/Pb15lIYoPmY/s1600-h/mikelitoris.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNXuJ7lwSgI/AAAAAAAABqQ/Pb15lIYoPmY/s400/mikelitoris.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248362795152460290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'd go by Michael&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-1583764466906377826?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1583764466906377826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1583764466906377826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/09/read-this-out-loud.html' title='read this out loud'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SNXuJ7lwSgI/AAAAAAAABqQ/Pb15lIYoPmY/s72-c/mikelitoris.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-5679958318446963699</id><published>2008-09-15T11:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T11:45:51.371-07:00</updated><title type='text'>end of summer garden</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SM6s_7TcVhI/AAAAAAAABpo/jRsjVP7QV-0/s1600-h/100_5086.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SM6s_7TcVhI/AAAAAAAABpo/jRsjVP7QV-0/s400/100_5086.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246320830184183314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SM6tAaR9ySI/AAAAAAAABpw/03gAvSdWKAo/s1600-h/100_5095.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SM6tAaR9ySI/AAAAAAAABpw/03gAvSdWKAo/s400/100_5095.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246320838499485986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SM6tAgI4UsI/AAAAAAAABp4/239ie8EhB5A/s1600-h/100_5088.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SM6tAgI4UsI/AAAAAAAABp4/239ie8EhB5A/s400/100_5088.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246320840071992002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SM6tBGBP2vI/AAAAAAAABqA/LN2txy9l7MQ/s1600-h/100_4914.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SM6tBGBP2vI/AAAAAAAABqA/LN2txy9l7MQ/s400/100_4914.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246320850240527090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SM6tBVOUfSI/AAAAAAAABqI/CV7RVu3AxcE/s1600-h/100_5091.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SM6tBVOUfSI/AAAAAAAABqI/CV7RVu3AxcE/s400/100_5091.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246320854321888546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SM6rU7LBjWI/AAAAAAAABpY/gtZz6O8_e8A/s1600-h/100_5083.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SM6rU7LBjWI/AAAAAAAABpY/gtZz6O8_e8A/s400/100_5083.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246318991902870882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SM6rVMaYXzI/AAAAAAAABpg/xgh6v_7biME/s1600-h/100_4779.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SM6rVMaYXzI/AAAAAAAABpg/xgh6v_7biME/s400/100_4779.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246318996530683698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-5679958318446963699?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5679958318446963699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5679958318446963699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/09/end-of-summer-garden.html' title='end of summer garden'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SM6s_7TcVhI/AAAAAAAABpo/jRsjVP7QV-0/s72-c/100_5086.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-4984953481124947706</id><published>2008-09-05T10:53:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-05T11:16:02.286-07:00</updated><title type='text'>today's inspiration: May Lemke</title><content type='html'>Leslie Lemke didn't have a great start in life. He was born with severe birth defects that required doctors to remove his eyes. He had cerebral palsy and was mentally retarded. His own mother gave him up for adoption, and a nurse named May Lemke (who at the time was 52 and raising 5 children of her own) adopted him when he was six months old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a young child, May force-fed Leslie to teach him how to swallow. He could not stand until he was 12. At 15 he walked for the first time , May would strap his body to hers in the hopes that he would eventually mimic the movements.  She also put his hands on hers as she played simple tunes on the piano, and she would sing to him&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At 16 years of age May woke  to find Leslie playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. Leslie, who had no classical music training, was playing the piece flawlessly after hearing it just once earlier on the television.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leslie's achievments are remarkable, and his abilities speak to how little we understand about the human brain...but it's May's achievments that are  most inspiring to me, and her abilities show the true power of the human heart.  Plus she was about &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;the cutest thing eve&lt;/span&gt;r (she died in 1993 of Alzheimers).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need more Mays.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZWtZA-ZmOAM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZWtZA-ZmOAM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-4984953481124947706?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4984953481124947706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4984953481124947706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/09/todays-inspiration-may-lemke.html' title='today&apos;s inspiration: May Lemke'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-9087742175476873086</id><published>2008-08-21T07:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-22T13:23:06.428-07:00</updated><title type='text'>carnival!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SK2CNccyv0I/AAAAAAAABFs/mfAol9UM1SA/s1600-h/100_4886.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SK2CNrzkh0I/AAAAAAAABF0/thjLGRFRyLA/s400/100_4885.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236985113310693186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SK2COa3J3RI/AAAAAAAABF8/OGisfOj2sNc/s1600-h/100_4887.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SK2COa3J3RI/AAAAAAAABF8/OGisfOj2sNc/s400/100_4887.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236985125942189330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SK2CO0vceGI/AAAAAAAABGE/XweufgGnZBs/s1600-h/100_4890.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SK2CO0vceGI/AAAAAAAABGE/XweufgGnZBs/s400/100_4890.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236985132889176162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SK2CPSkSE1I/AAAAAAAABGM/QPZgslJDbY8/s1600-h/100_4893.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SK2CPSkSE1I/AAAAAAAABGM/QPZgslJDbY8/s400/100_4893.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236985140895421266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SK2Fwx8R8tI/AAAAAAAABHU/Q44CU13gVY4/s1600-h/100_4918.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SK2Fwx8R8tI/AAAAAAAABHU/Q44CU13gVY4/s400/100_4918.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236989014788141778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SK2FxSExuPI/AAAAAAAABHc/2IX1qhoP4PE/s1600-h/100_4922.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SK2FxSExuPI/AAAAAAAABHc/2IX1qhoP4PE/s400/100_4922.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236989023413713138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was like walking around the remnants of a giant burst pinata.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-9087742175476873086?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/9087742175476873086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/9087742175476873086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/08/carnival.html' title='carnival!'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SK2CNccyv0I/AAAAAAAABFs/mfAol9UM1SA/s72-c/100_4886.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-5820398540351327084</id><published>2008-08-18T11:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T11:38:41.057-07:00</updated><title type='text'>the impermanence of feelings</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SKnBotPywtI/AAAAAAAABFU/PX_WFB5YdLU/s1600-h/nele-azevedo-ice-figures-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SKnBotPywtI/AAAAAAAABFU/PX_WFB5YdLU/s400/nele-azevedo-ice-figures-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235928946879677138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SKnBojrX8JI/AAAAAAAABFc/U2ReLnQFYAA/s1600-h/nele-azevego-ice-man-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SKnBojrX8JI/AAAAAAAABFc/U2ReLnQFYAA/s400/nele-azevego-ice-man-3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235928944311005330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SKnBoxDbTMI/AAAAAAAABFk/HMWgF8WAu2k/s1600-h/nele-azevego-man-ice-sculpture-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SKnBoxDbTMI/AAAAAAAABFk/HMWgF8WAu2k/s400/nele-azevego-man-ice-sculpture-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235928947901549762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-5820398540351327084?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5820398540351327084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5820398540351327084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/08/impermanence-of-feelings.html' title='the impermanence of feelings'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SKnBotPywtI/AAAAAAAABFU/PX_WFB5YdLU/s72-c/nele-azevedo-ice-figures-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-3641971413647393262</id><published>2008-08-17T20:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-17T20:51:22.571-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SKjxqPdd9SI/AAAAAAAABFM/nY_xdbZQ1n8/s1600-h/jonigraham2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SKjxqPdd9SI/AAAAAAAABFM/nY_xdbZQ1n8/s400/jonigraham2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235700274825131298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SKjs7h3wboI/AAAAAAAABE8/YKhi9N2Rit8/s1600-h/joni_mitchell_graham_nash.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SKjs7h3wboI/AAAAAAAABE8/YKhi9N2Rit8/s400/joni_mitchell_graham_nash.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235695074266869378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"If you squeeze sand too tightly, it runs through your fingers"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's what Joni Mitchell said to Graham Nash when she ended their love affair.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-3641971413647393262?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/3641971413647393262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/3641971413647393262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/08/if-you-squeeze-sand-too-tightly-it-runs.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SKjxqPdd9SI/AAAAAAAABFM/nY_xdbZQ1n8/s72-c/jonigraham2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-6175062162241050000</id><published>2008-08-10T16:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-10T16:43:14.300-07:00</updated><title type='text'>8</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJ95Mjhs60I/AAAAAAAABEs/rq9bypGAYXE/s1600-h/Crop+Circle+8+%232.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJ95Mjhs60I/AAAAAAAABEs/rq9bypGAYXE/s400/Crop+Circle+8+%232.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233034548629793602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJ981QMR1aI/AAAAAAAABE0/uvtrPNQCexw/s1600-h/P8087945b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJ981QMR1aI/AAAAAAAABE0/uvtrPNQCexw/s400/P8087945b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233038546349184418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the latest crop circle,  discovered on 8/8/08 in Wiltshire England...I've always liked this whole crop circle thing.   Whether taken as art or messages from extra-terrestrials it excites my mind. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, in further celebration of the number 8,  a circle that turns round upon itself.... and means many things, including magic and infinite possibility....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jeq5a8bBh8c&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jeq5a8bBh8c&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-6175062162241050000?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6175062162241050000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6175062162241050000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/08/8.html' title='8'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJ95Mjhs60I/AAAAAAAABEs/rq9bypGAYXE/s72-c/Crop+Circle+8+%232.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-7048197026619731003</id><published>2008-08-10T08:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-10T08:16:48.803-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;THE NECESSITY OF APPEARING &lt;br /&gt;IN YOUR OWN FACE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are days when that is the last place&lt;br /&gt;in the world where you want to be but you&lt;br /&gt;have to be there, like a movie, because it&lt;br /&gt; features you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;-Richard Brautigan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-7048197026619731003?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7048197026619731003'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7048197026619731003'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/08/necessity-of-appearing-in-your-own-face.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-5347008076048928482</id><published>2008-08-08T09:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-08T09:48:59.886-07:00</updated><title type='text'>CSI Backyard</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJx42agNZOI/AAAAAAAABEk/ZEqKIbCFal4/s1600-h/100_4762.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJx42agNZOI/AAAAAAAABEk/ZEqKIbCFal4/s400/100_4762.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232189743320360162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJx3LJ5EZxI/AAAAAAAABEc/pSXq7Gpn4do/s1600-h/DSC_0038.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJx3LJ5EZxI/AAAAAAAABEc/pSXq7Gpn4do/s400/DSC_0038.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232187900615223058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJx1ZumgumI/AAAAAAAABEE/BwGOfU7q_Ds/s1600-h/l_0bc8dca26209a6e2f7314630498a9fcc.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJx1ZumgumI/AAAAAAAABEE/BwGOfU7q_Ds/s400/l_0bc8dca26209a6e2f7314630498a9fcc.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232185951964412514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJx1ZwekcJI/AAAAAAAABEM/w5dekmYA55Q/s1600-h/l_7650e9dbfc300fb3fb26fd93c305db09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJx1ZwekcJI/AAAAAAAABEM/w5dekmYA55Q/s400/l_7650e9dbfc300fb3fb26fd93c305db09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232185952467972242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJx1Z9aUCGI/AAAAAAAABEU/uTWJsu-bjOw/s1600-h/l_27adab669ac14d68e7b960aaad77047c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJx1Z9aUCGI/AAAAAAAABEU/uTWJsu-bjOw/s400/l_27adab669ac14d68e7b960aaad77047c.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232185955939780706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-5347008076048928482?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5347008076048928482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5347008076048928482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/08/csi-backyard.html' title='CSI Backyard'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJx42agNZOI/AAAAAAAABEk/ZEqKIbCFal4/s72-c/100_4762.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-8066685519003268002</id><published>2008-08-02T20:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T01:51:58.190-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJUnvKF6W4I/AAAAAAAABDs/_fwDBbkXJBA/s1600-h/ericwilliamcarroll_5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJUnvKF6W4I/AAAAAAAABDs/_fwDBbkXJBA/s400/ericwilliamcarroll_5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230130233377184642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-8066685519003268002?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/8066685519003268002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/8066685519003268002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/08/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SJUnvKF6W4I/AAAAAAAABDs/_fwDBbkXJBA/s72-c/ericwilliamcarroll_5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-2750620905780502630</id><published>2008-07-30T20:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T20:21:02.087-07:00</updated><title type='text'>puggle time</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZJ_Mly4YL7c&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZJ_Mly4YL7c&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I never get sick of these guys...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-2750620905780502630?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2750620905780502630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2750620905780502630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/07/puggle-time.html' title='puggle time'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-4223568963266412791</id><published>2008-07-27T08:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T01:51:58.367-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIyTAjovOhI/AAAAAAAABDk/vieafmIEHD8/s1600-h/blinding-the-cyclops.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIyTAjovOhI/AAAAAAAABDk/vieafmIEHD8/s400/blinding-the-cyclops.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227714905245694482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cyclops blinding is a clothing optional sport&lt;br /&gt;Blinded cyclops penis watching...clothing required.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-4223568963266412791?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4223568963266412791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4223568963266412791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/07/cyclops-blinding-is-sport-best-done-in.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIyTAjovOhI/AAAAAAAABDk/vieafmIEHD8/s72-c/blinding-the-cyclops.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-5164760450457559918</id><published>2008-07-23T19:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T01:51:58.387-08:00</updated><title type='text'>momversations</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/R1UF_H3JLUI/AAAAAAAAAps/ZR_czfMQrgU/s1600-h/100_3531.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/R1UF_H3JLUI/AAAAAAAAAps/ZR_czfMQrgU/s200/100_3531.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140021131713523010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me:  Hi Mom.  &lt;br /&gt;Mom:  Oh hi honey, can I call you back?  I'm in the middle of making my funeral arrangements*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Later on that day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mom:  Well honey, I'm going to be cremated.  You dont mind, do you?  But I've made sure that you can see my body beforehand if you want, I know  how you like to look at dead things.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*my mom is perfectly healthy outside of having degenerative eye disease and fuzzy logic.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-5164760450457559918?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5164760450457559918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5164760450457559918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/07/momversations.html' title='momversations'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/R1UF_H3JLUI/AAAAAAAAAps/ZR_czfMQrgU/s72-c/100_3531.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-3746619406687411795</id><published>2008-07-23T09:40:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T01:51:58.603-08:00</updated><title type='text'>OG</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIdfMyQHfeI/AAAAAAAABDc/465w2Yml6rg/s1600-h/2676073183_868432f9b7_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIdfMyQHfeI/AAAAAAAABDc/465w2Yml6rg/s400/2676073183_868432f9b7_o.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226250565839191522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-3746619406687411795?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/3746619406687411795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/3746619406687411795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/07/og.html' title='OG'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIdfMyQHfeI/AAAAAAAABDc/465w2Yml6rg/s72-c/2676073183_868432f9b7_o.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-814925238711649257</id><published>2008-07-22T11:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T01:51:59.767-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYjJ1_4pkI/AAAAAAAABC0/PfmqhjidAHg/s1600-h/fake8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYjJ1_4pkI/AAAAAAAABC0/PfmqhjidAHg/s400/fake8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225903069630867010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYjKR3ePSI/AAAAAAAABC8/_ANOWf46j2g/s1600-h/008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYjKR3ePSI/AAAAAAAABC8/_ANOWf46j2g/s400/008.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225903077111774498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYjKoWX-iI/AAAAAAAABDE/kPOlwgkWC84/s1600-h/004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYjKoWX-iI/AAAAAAAABDE/kPOlwgkWC84/s400/004.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225903083146967586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYjKhIpxpI/AAAAAAAABDM/8yxJd7-zqQ0/s1600-h/010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYjKhIpxpI/AAAAAAAABDM/8yxJd7-zqQ0/s400/010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225903081210365586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYjKy8qaGI/AAAAAAAABDU/kVITfRiXIoI/s1600-h/015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYjKy8qaGI/AAAAAAAABDU/kVITfRiXIoI/s400/015.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225903085991913570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYhQzc0RzI/AAAAAAAABCs/u56edKP0Jsc/s1600-h/fake4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYhQzc0RzI/AAAAAAAABCs/u56edKP0Jsc/s400/fake4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225900990182737714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel ready...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-814925238711649257?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/814925238711649257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/814925238711649257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-feel-ready.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYjJ1_4pkI/AAAAAAAABC0/PfmqhjidAHg/s72-c/fake8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-2489074017300414785</id><published>2008-07-22T10:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T01:52:00.776-08:00</updated><title type='text'>soap operas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYcur7wg0I/AAAAAAAABCU/9GhSwaNPiFU/s1600-h/dsc00443.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYcur7wg0I/AAAAAAAABCU/9GhSwaNPiFU/s400/dsc00443.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225896006002967362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYcumiNHbI/AAAAAAAABCc/l7f128l2kEo/s1600-h/dsc00459.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYcumiNHbI/AAAAAAAABCc/l7f128l2kEo/s400/dsc00459.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225896004553612722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYcuimtDLI/AAAAAAAABCk/8lEw2se9ATc/s1600-h/dsc00473.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYcuimtDLI/AAAAAAAABCk/8lEw2se9ATc/s400/dsc00473.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225896003498740914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYcfPyjmOI/AAAAAAAABCE/CV7-XE3SiVk/s1600-h/dsc00243.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYcfPyjmOI/AAAAAAAABCE/CV7-XE3SiVk/s400/dsc00243.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225895740750141666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYcffRaJpI/AAAAAAAABCM/qi5cCjnSDKo/s1600-h/dsc00304.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYcffRaJpI/AAAAAAAABCM/qi5cCjnSDKo/s400/dsc00304.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225895744906077842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful photgraphs of soap bubbles by Jason Tozer.  So peaceful.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-2489074017300414785?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2489074017300414785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2489074017300414785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/07/soap-operas.html' title='soap operas'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SIYcur7wg0I/AAAAAAAABCU/9GhSwaNPiFU/s72-c/dsc00443.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-7587777798877214265</id><published>2008-07-15T07:37:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-20T07:47:17.375-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/e4467CI4y0M&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e4467CI4y0M&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The words expressed are not  quite reflective of my views, but I appreciate this video for many reasons.  Plus it has an 80s feel!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-7587777798877214265?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7587777798877214265'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7587777798877214265'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/07/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-8602380164568605589</id><published>2008-07-13T17:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T01:52:01.083-08:00</updated><title type='text'>nobody does it better</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHqgjlwKNUI/AAAAAAAABB8/5LLppGv4lQo/s1600-h/carly.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHqgjlwKNUI/AAAAAAAABB8/5LLppGv4lQo/s400/carly.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222663251179484482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah, vintage Carly.  She impresses me, what can I say?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-8602380164568605589?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/8602380164568605589'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/8602380164568605589'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/07/nobody-does-it-better.html' title='nobody does it better'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHqgjlwKNUI/AAAAAAAABB8/5LLppGv4lQo/s72-c/carly.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-2920525319412881554</id><published>2008-07-07T16:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-07T16:58:12.367-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;I'm a 1974 nickel in the corner that the vacuum keeps missing so it stays there inadvertantly, surrounded by more and more dust bunnies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-AGL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My favorite sentence from an email all month.  &lt;br /&gt;Haven't we all been there.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-2920525319412881554?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2920525319412881554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2920525319412881554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/07/im-1974-nickel-in-corner-that-vacuum.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-4770299109470856350</id><published>2008-07-07T13:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T01:52:01.456-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ-6D286xI/AAAAAAAABBk/uvVdLwn-4XA/s1600-h/il_430xN.16880243.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ-6D286xI/AAAAAAAABBk/uvVdLwn-4XA/s400/il_430xN.16880243.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220374454009129746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ-6T4JUEI/AAAAAAAABBs/KMPTf1VBrfc/s1600-h/s2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ-6T4JUEI/AAAAAAAABBs/KMPTf1VBrfc/s400/s2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220374458309103682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keep wonder ALIVE&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-4770299109470856350?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4770299109470856350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4770299109470856350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/07/keep-wonder-alive.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ-6D286xI/AAAAAAAABBk/uvVdLwn-4XA/s72-c/il_430xN.16880243.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-1998305610401238936</id><published>2008-07-07T13:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-07T13:34:07.075-07:00</updated><title type='text'>these are a few of my favorite things</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kjeh6P4sRfw&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kjeh6P4sRfw&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I may be over the boozy part, I will always be a sucker for romantic natures...and elephant nose parties.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-1998305610401238936?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1998305610401238936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/1998305610401238936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/07/these-are-few-of-my-favorite-things.html' title='these are a few of my favorite things'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-2769190409275020533</id><published>2008-07-07T11:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T01:52:03.315-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHKAuIiJsvI/AAAAAAAABB0/rzRT7GH_U0E/s1600-h/399px-Lynch_Albert_A_Young_Beauty_With_Flowers_In_Her_Hair.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHKAuIiJsvI/AAAAAAAABB0/rzRT7GH_U0E/s400/399px-Lynch_Albert_A_Young_Beauty_With_Flowers_In_Her_Hair.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220376448128889586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GIRLS, (PRETTY)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The power of a pretty girl... totally unquantifiable. But this much is certain: there is nothing a beautiful girl in the West cannot have, for a time. And I don't speak from any far off hilltop - I'm as much a sucker as anyone. I've risked everything for a certain look, for tapered fingers or a particular mole. So I hear you when you say it's not what she says, not what she does, that it's on her. It's something she wears and however skin deep it may be on her, it penetrates you right to the marrow. Pretty girls lie at the centre of straight culture, dyke culture, fag culture. They sell everything, they buy everything, they ruin great men and women, and finally they ruin themselves, accidentally, simply by getting old. I think about them. Sometimes I want them and sometimes I worry about them - even though it's not my business to do. I wonder about them. I wonder if you are the pretty girl in question. I wonder what you do with a power which, though potent, makes you vulnerable to every probe, every demand, every infiltration? I wonder what you do with a power that turns you into an open atlas upon which any idiot can map their own route?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Zadie Smith&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of my occupations involves beauty, and frequently I am in the presence of young beautiful women.  Yesterday I worked on 3 young pretty girls, all under the age of 15.    They had no idea of the power they  were wielding.  They were just girls, not yet women, but womanly enough to get the attention of any man or  woman who recognizes their as yet unrecognized power.  What's interesting about  being around the beauty of youth (as opposed to the beauty of other things---of which there are many) is that it tends to intoxicate without warning, pupils dialate and the subject begins to appear brighter than the surroundings...  and all of this  is projected onto someone who has no idea.  I realized as I was staring at them that some part of me had set about &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;wanting&lt;/span&gt;...wanting to possess, wanting to be near, wanting to touch. Not  sexual,  yet not quite unsexual either...in the way food or nature can be.  Wanting to devour or be devoured by it. If I were blind would I be able to detect the potency?  It's visual for sure, but it's also married to a purity and innocence that permeates a room, delicate as a spider's web and heady as the scent of a  tropical flower.    When we are young and beautiful we ARE blind to it.    It's like inherited money, not earned and  so unable to be grasped and appreciated.    I definitely was not the master of my atlas back then, and as a result I contain plenty of pages marked with someone elses highlighter.  Yep, blew through that inheritance!  Now I celebrate the beauty of wisdom  and the beauty of compassion.  Two hard earned attributes that ensure a much more peaceful and satisfying trip.  And, thankfully, just as interesting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;SELF POSSESSION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I cant pretend to know what Jessie Mann was thinking as her mother, Sally Mann, photographed her.  But I offer her up as the rare example of self-possession, even as a child.  A master of her own atlas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ5CDfju-I/AAAAAAAABBI/O1EGQZNHeMw/s1600-h/picture_1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ5CDfju-I/AAAAAAAABBI/O1EGQZNHeMw/s400/picture_1.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220367994280197090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ5Crs6u4I/AAAAAAAABBQ/uHHsy0U__HY/s1600-h/prof_11_sally_mann_pose-769707.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ5Crs6u4I/AAAAAAAABBQ/uHHsy0U__HY/s400/prof_11_sally_mann_pose-769707.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220368005073648514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJz9tOSHhI/AAAAAAAABAQ/3osjUTeXRKY/s1600-h/mann5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJz9tOSHhI/AAAAAAAABAQ/3osjUTeXRKY/s400/mann5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220362422024543762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJz91zc52I/AAAAAAAABAY/0wmglROXKsQ/s1600-h/jessie_at_12a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJz91zc52I/AAAAAAAABAY/0wmglROXKsQ/s400/jessie_at_12a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220362424327923554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJz99UoVHI/AAAAAAAABAg/IWNIDQ5-W2o/s1600-h/Jessie_at_12b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJz99UoVHI/AAAAAAAABAg/IWNIDQ5-W2o/s400/Jessie_at_12b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220362426346132594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;THAT&lt;/span&gt; grows up to become THIS&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ0qVDDoaI/AAAAAAAABA4/BgTEj4j1SbU/s1600-h/99a72d52.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ0qVDDoaI/AAAAAAAABA4/BgTEj4j1SbU/s400/99a72d52.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220363188629119394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ0jt3OmUI/AAAAAAAABAo/izFWgr5aJXY/s1600-h/a8ae6525.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ0jt3OmUI/AAAAAAAABAo/izFWgr5aJXY/s400/a8ae6525.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220363075031308610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ0j_C9qpI/AAAAAAAABAw/HuR3FbnXz_0/s1600-h/prince39.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ0j_C9qpI/AAAAAAAABAw/HuR3FbnXz_0/s400/prince39.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220363079643933330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ3UpNqnoI/AAAAAAAABBA/dkO9ANcsaTI/s1600-h/231975.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ3UpNqnoI/AAAAAAAABBA/dkO9ANcsaTI/s400/231975.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220366114620087938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ5vQPdYMI/AAAAAAAABBY/ymqs-SvErzo/s1600-h/Prince-Mann.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHJ5vQPdYMI/AAAAAAAABBY/ymqs-SvErzo/s400/Prince-Mann.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220368770796445890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know, right?  She's hard to take your eyes off of.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-2769190409275020533?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2769190409275020533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2769190409275020533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/07/girls-pretty-power-of-pretty-girl.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SHKAuIiJsvI/AAAAAAAABB0/rzRT7GH_U0E/s72-c/399px-Lynch_Albert_A_Young_Beauty_With_Flowers_In_Her_Hair.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-2506856612347778979</id><published>2008-06-30T22:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T01:52:03.438-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SGnD9H7pkyI/AAAAAAAABAI/zOAiy97aGwQ/s1600-h/mirror.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SGnD9H7pkyI/AAAAAAAABAI/zOAiy97aGwQ/s400/mirror.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217917098154103586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-2506856612347778979?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2506856612347778979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2506856612347778979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SGnD9H7pkyI/AAAAAAAABAI/zOAiy97aGwQ/s72-c/mirror.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-4554534765177602748</id><published>2008-06-26T07:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-26T08:01:18.496-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning.  That's just the initial impression.  The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Olga Korbut&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-4554534765177602748?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4554534765177602748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/4554534765177602748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/06/dont-be-afraid-if-things-seem-difficult.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-5164326246950258624</id><published>2008-06-20T13:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T01:52:04.936-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SF0HYHAJS6I/AAAAAAAAA_w/OQRHRWc-qek/s1600-h/100_4731.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SF0HYHAJS6I/AAAAAAAAA_w/OQRHRWc-qek/s400/100_4731.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214332054342814626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SF0HYuikO3I/AAAAAAAAA_4/UbF0Gax-tos/s1600-h/100_4721.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SF0HYuikO3I/AAAAAAAAA_4/UbF0Gax-tos/s400/100_4721.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214332064956169074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SF0HZBO8UrI/AAAAAAAABAA/A1UXlkIf2lU/s1600-h/100_4741.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SF0HZBO8UrI/AAAAAAAABAA/A1UXlkIf2lU/s400/100_4741.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214332069974135474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SF0GcbniHxI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/f16OJLvn56E/s1600-h/100_4728.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SF0GcbniHxI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/f16OJLvn56E/s400/100_4728.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214331029084577554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SF0GclKNt3I/AAAAAAAAA_g/9mjvaNGggNM/s1600-h/100_4735.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SF0GclKNt3I/AAAAAAAAA_g/9mjvaNGggNM/s400/100_4735.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214331031645960050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SF0GdPiQG4I/AAAAAAAAA_o/TPUtATI0ZS8/s1600-h/100_4746.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SF0GdPiQG4I/AAAAAAAAA_o/TPUtATI0ZS8/s400/100_4746.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214331043021069186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SFwWNCugm_I/AAAAAAAAA_Q/8Ar_ELu88xo/s1600-h/100_4720.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SFwWNCugm_I/AAAAAAAAA_Q/8Ar_ELu88xo/s400/100_4720.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214066881914248178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The outrageousness of nature...&lt;br /&gt;This is the kind of stuff I wish the papparazzi stalked.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-5164326246950258624?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5164326246950258624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5164326246950258624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/06/outrageousness-of-nature.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SF0HYHAJS6I/AAAAAAAAA_w/OQRHRWc-qek/s72-c/100_4731.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-7521482441465731687</id><published>2008-06-20T13:39:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-20T13:39:38.847-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LKEc8EN1p-I&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LKEc8EN1p-I&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh dear god.  Exquisite.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-7521482441465731687?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7521482441465731687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/7521482441465731687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/06/oh-dear-god.html' title=''/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-2485992191569959059</id><published>2008-06-20T13:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-20T13:31:26.667-07:00</updated><title type='text'>uh-huh</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Late Fragment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And did you get what&lt;br /&gt;you wanted from this life, even so?&lt;br /&gt;I did.&lt;br /&gt;And what did you want?&lt;br /&gt;To call myself beloved, to feel myself&lt;br /&gt;beloved on the earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Raymond Carver&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-2485992191569959059?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2485992191569959059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/2485992191569959059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/06/uh-huh.html' title='uh-huh'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-6320118899642155552</id><published>2008-06-20T07:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T01:52:05.993-08:00</updated><title type='text'>spot free</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SFvFbMPbubI/AAAAAAAAA-o/sywHFWMAIGY/s1600-h/100_4698.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SFvFbMPbubI/AAAAAAAAA-o/sywHFWMAIGY/s400/100_4698.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213978064544577970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SFvFbhwj1pI/AAAAAAAAA-w/7Xz2Rkk3h9c/s1600-h/100_4700.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SFvFbhwj1pI/AAAAAAAAA-w/7Xz2Rkk3h9c/s400/100_4700.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213978070320666258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SFvFbzEO-RI/AAAAAAAAA-4/ZTmMeWist0E/s1600-h/100_4703.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SFvFbzEO-RI/AAAAAAAAA-4/ZTmMeWist0E/s400/100_4703.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213978074966587666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SFvFcWVOMtI/AAAAAAAAA_A/-nswVZMwayI/s1600-h/100_4704.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SFvFcWVOMtI/AAAAAAAAA_A/-nswVZMwayI/s400/100_4704.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213978084433081042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SFvFc2lImjI/AAAAAAAAA_I/84lbovwpY40/s1600-h/100_4707.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SFvFc2lImjI/AAAAAAAAA_I/84lbovwpY40/s400/100_4707.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213978093089757746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-6320118899642155552?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6320118899642155552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6320118899642155552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/06/spot-free.html' title='spot free'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SFvFbMPbubI/AAAAAAAAA-o/sywHFWMAIGY/s72-c/100_4698.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-6914686843115547266</id><published>2008-06-10T10:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T01:52:06.755-08:00</updated><title type='text'>fleurs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SE60hMQepNI/AAAAAAAAA-I/mOLl8Sg1qDw/s1600-h/100_4661.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SE60hMQepNI/AAAAAAAAA-I/mOLl8Sg1qDw/s400/100_4661.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210300301233267922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SE60ifVXDzI/AAAAAAAAA-Q/rpSWkyjOjHI/s1600-h/100_4657.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SE60ifVXDzI/AAAAAAAAA-Q/rpSWkyjOjHI/s400/100_4657.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210300323533885234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SE60i8-0cmI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/WbnxLdiljXA/s1600-h/100_4663.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SE60i8-0cmI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/WbnxLdiljXA/s400/100_4663.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210300331492405858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SE60jMpDiPI/AAAAAAAAA-g/J9Mx9qWiqOY/s1600-h/2553861757_10936cfa47_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SE60jMpDiPI/AAAAAAAAA-g/J9Mx9qWiqOY/s400/2553861757_10936cfa47_o.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210300335696087282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 of mine...&lt;br /&gt;loved the x-ray shot of someone elses.&lt;br /&gt;so delicate, but so alive...and fluid.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-6914686843115547266?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6914686843115547266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/6914686843115547266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/06/fleurs.html' title='fleurs'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SE60hMQepNI/AAAAAAAAA-I/mOLl8Sg1qDw/s72-c/100_4661.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-5655266676330684283</id><published>2008-05-31T21:17:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-31T21:26:38.381-07:00</updated><title type='text'>groove is in the heart...</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-2cdcda11b14f2f6c" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v19.nonxt6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D2cdcda11b14f2f6c%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331321963%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D4D8F7A9D10406A41BEC6E4E190E2C364CD7C52BA.4EC3AAF8BB299C1F7C4FAB0FB025BC9ABB45A0EC%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D2cdcda11b14f2f6c%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DeDKi7oISEU1Ln6eXe20G6XuMM4s&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v19.nonxt6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D2cdcda11b14f2f6c%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331321963%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D4D8F7A9D10406A41BEC6E4E190E2C364CD7C52BA.4EC3AAF8BB299C1F7C4FAB0FB025BC9ABB45A0EC%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D2cdcda11b14f2f6c%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DeDKi7oISEU1Ln6eXe20G6XuMM4s&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just the moon and some magic were all these two needed.  Saw them late at night dancing  to the sound of traffic on a slab of concrete in a park in Culver City.  Made my week.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1090750199186815810-5655266676330684283?l=miningforopals.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='video/mp4' href='http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=2cdcda11b14f2f6c&amp;type=video%2Fmp4' length='0'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5655266676330684283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1090750199186815810/posts/default/5655266676330684283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miningforopals.blogspot.com/2008/05/groove-is-in-heart.html' title='groove is in the heart...'/><author><name>Bella...</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18131802219836316365</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1090750199186815810.post-7674801752982525459</id><published>2008-05-31T21:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T01:52:07.322-08:00</updated><title type='text'>24 hours</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMqZH_7syjc/SEIiHAqZA5I/AAAAAAAAA94/SaFX4f8_ZBE/s1600-h/100_4515.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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