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As it turns out, LiveJournal's mobile site is very, very limited. Since I have full web access on my Blackberry, I'll simply use the regular LJ site from my gadget. That way I have full access to my security settings et al on the go.

scream4noreason mentioned missing my writing here. I have missed writing, too. To be honest, I have felt overwhelmed with all of the internal processing I have been doing concerning my life, my liberty, and the pursuit of my happiness. But it dawned on me this morning that the processing just may become less overwhelming, if I write about it along the way.

In stark contrast to my silence here, I've been doing a lot more sharing of the everyday wonders in my world via Facebook. Now that I have a cameraphone, I have gone snap-happy with it. One of Facebook's neat features is the ability to send photos right from my 'phone to my Facebook Wall. It's fun to be able to make photos of my everyday life and share them with friends and family right away! There may also be a way to do that with LJ, but I haven't looked, yet, to see how I can do it. There isn't a standalone LJ application for BlackBerry, so the only way I know of doing it is to FTP the photos to my web hosting account, then go to LJ's main website to create a post linking to that photo. Needless to say, it's not something that is easy to do on the fly. If I am going to go through all of that trouble, I may as well wait until I have photos from my DSLR to share. Those photos look much better than anything I can take with the tiny sensor on my cameraphone.

Speaking of my DSLR, I intend to make night photos in Manhattan, today. Right now I am in the self-study classroom at school. (Yes, I am back to working on my MCSA, heaven help me!) After spending the morning studying, I intend to go home for lunch and a break, then head back into Manhattan around 4:30. That will give me two hours to photograph Rockefeller Center and Bryant Park before meeting T for the ride home. I'm looking foward to posting those photos here...once I finish editing and sharing the photos from T's family gathering last Saturday night...once I finish editing and sharing the behind-the-scenes photos I made of the Astoria, Queens Help-Portrait team in action last Saturday morning. Hmmm...this may take longer than I thought.

1:11PM - Holiday photos will have to wait. I decided to remain at school, as I seem to be on a roll with this Routing & Remote Access subject matter. I'm spending the afternoon in the Mentored Learning Classroom, then will accompany T home from work. I think I'll walk with my camera tomorrow, so I can make photos after I finish my afternoon session on the ML Classroom.

I'm glad studying is fun, again!

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I have missed seeing your posts too, even though I seem to have become just as bad about not posting. You are the only person who ever posts regularly about life. I feel that I have a stronger connection with you than with any of my other LJ friends.

What is it like to have internet access on your cellphone? A few of the people who email me have the sign "sent from BlackBerry" I know I seem really old-fashioned, but... cell phone internet is weird...

Since communicating with friends and family is so important to me and so many of the people in my life are active on the 'net, having 'net access on the go helps me feel connected to them. I like being able to joke and laugh with them throughout the day, as well as being able to share deeper things. If something happens that I want to share or I see something that I want to share, I can quickly post to Facebook or send out an email/text to share. If I didn't have that option, I would forget about a lot of little moments before I got back to my home computer to share with them. A great example was being able to post photos to Facebook as Help-Portrait was happening on Saturday morning. I was very excited to be a part of something so big, and being able to share photos as it happened added to my excitement.

When I am not able to stay connected like that, I feel out of the loop. Of course, sometimes that is a good thing, since as an introvert I need my downtime!

Facebook and I have a very wary detante going. I rarely post there- but I also need to post here more, too.

Even though this blog is public, I don't advertise it, so there are a lot of family and friends who know nothing about this blog...and I like it that way. Facebook is my way of sharing things with them that I would also share in my blog, but I don't want to point them to my blog. The security settings on Facebook are great for filtering certain people out of certain aspects of my Facebook presence, too. It's like the filters here on LJ. I make good use of filters on both sites.

I am excited about the Rockefeller Center pix, when you finally get the chance to take them!

I would like nothing more than to walk Manhattan with my camera! (and you of course)(and get pretzels)

Pretzels are a must!