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Honey, I'm home

1:19 PM Friday, August 12, 2005

[Land of the bland: muse for the schmooze]

I'm back. The 2-hour plane flight from Albuquerque, like all plane flights, converted a vivid same-day experience into a near-distant memory. My grand plan to blog from Santa Fe had fallen flat.

Yes, I found free wi-fi (widely available in Santa Fe, and even at the motel where I stayed, though unadvertised.) And yes, I was able to post comments to the previous blog entry, which I had posted before leaving. I felt so busy, however, what with sightseeing, window-shopping, conference participation, and scoring ever huger portions of green chili, that I didn't feel motivated to post any text addenda in the comments.

What I did do, was snap a lot of cameraphone shots, upload them to Sprint, download them to my laptop, use iPhoto with a freebie plug-in to upload then to Flickr, and post a link to the photos in a Coffeeblog comment. The result? Quasi-nada. Near-zip. Almost zilch. A few die-hard fans did view some of the photos according to the Flickr counter, but view counts to date have not even ascended to the mind-boggling number of ten for any given photo. The Coffeeblog continued to get hits, however. Curiously, the most popular photo was a prosaic view of the Sweeney Center, a former gymnasium, a few blocks from the renowned Plaza in Santa Fe, where the conference I attended was held. Go figure.

Anyhow, now that I am back in California, land of the bland Anaheim green chile, where the Big Jims and Sandias are unattainable except in a frozen state by Internet mail-order, the blogging muse has returned and is whispering in my ear. New Mexico has provided me much to blog about, and blog I will. Watch this space.

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