marshmallows for breakfast
After a month off writing, I feel silly posting again … but I just uploaded our vacation photos, so I thought I’d share! By the way, I still don’t really know the difference between uploading and downloading, except that it has something to do with the direction of the exchange of information. It’s like greater than and less than in math; I always had trouble with those pesky > and < than signs. If 10 > 5, the arrow points to the lesser one (5), right? 10 is greater than 5 …. but I wonder, if 10 is so great, why isn’t the arrow pointing at him?
Let’s just say I’ve “loaded” this photo:
This was our first-ever family camping trip. I was worried about my techie husband in the woods without wireless, but after a few days he was the first one up - building the fire and making camp coffee … reading God’s bloglines (the deer, the dew, the baby sun streaking through the trees). If I was very quiet, I could sneak out of the tent … un-zzzzip ever so slowly … without waking the three girls and join him by the fire with my book and my tin cup of chewy, boiled coffee (only delicious when camping - its a mystery). Those mornings were heaven.
When I heard the first stirring inside the tent - little camp-girl chirpings, like morning birds - I thought, “Shall we have marshmallows for breakfast?”
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I never fail to be struck by how much your daughters look like you — just put them in a New Balance jersey with sunglasses, and they could fill in for you. You’re really blessed.
Separate thought: I recall that I didn’t know that the blog’s earlier incarnation would’ve been supported by hits on the Fleet Feet icon (which I believe is now gone). Are there any particular links/icons/sites it would be helpful to hit, in the general category of supporting a true rarity: a literary running site?
Comment by Eric — 7/14/2006 @ 12:01 pm
I simply love the fashion statements these cherubs make with their head covers. I think of Dr. Seuss’s “Go Dog Go” where we read, “Do you like my hat?”
Each one unique and without a burned marshmellow to boot!
As for the Fleet link, I think I went through all clicks a day or so ago reading things like how I could become a franchise owner to training for the marathon in Buffalo for a chance at a pair of Mizunos.
Comment by John — 7/14/2006 @ 3:49 pm
Cool… my daghters are older now but they would recognize this scene. My wife likes her coffee hot and early in the morning so there is much in common.
We usually saved our marshmallows for smores in the evening and had a delicious breakfast of toasted english muffins, peanut butter and SPAM. For pix and the process steps, check here: http://steves2cents.blogspot.com/2006/07/final-product.html
Nothing like family camping! Enjoy!
Comment by Steve Sherlock — 7/15/2006 @ 10:57 am
Wow. Sounds like a great time.
I always think of it this way: the big end of the sign is towards the bigger number, and the small end towards the smaller. It is confusing to think of them as arrows! I think of the internet as a big poster board and when I want some info, I take it ‘down’, and when I want to post some info, I put it ‘up’. Anyway, that’s how I remember it. 
Comment by mis_nomer — 7/16/2006 @ 9:11 pm
The alligator always eats the bigger value, i.e., 10 > 5
Comment by Tweak — 7/17/2006 @ 10:09 am
Oh, you’re confusing me more, Tweak. How could an alligator eat something that is bigger than he is?
dear me.
Comment by Joan — 7/17/2006 @ 1:21 pm
Hmmm…chewy, boiled coffee. I always find that taking along a french press on camping trips is the perfect solution. Just heat some water, pour it over your favorite premium blend, press and . . . presto! Great coffee while miles from anywhere in the woods (okay, maybe not miles from anywhere, because you’ll only really want to take the french press along while car camping, but the vehicle in the background of the marshmallow photo tells me that all your gear was right with you).
Comment by Steve — 7/18/2006 @ 10:18 am
Uploading vs. downloading - think of the wires of the Internet as going down the street on telephone lines. So - if you have something on your computer sitting in your lap, and you send it to a server or box that’s up on the wire, then you are UPLOADING.
If you are bringing it from one of those servers up on the wire, and you are bringing it to the computer sitting on your desktop or lap, then you are DOWNLOADING.
I’m glad we had this little talk.
And I understand that the Romans started having marshmallows for breakfast, just before Rome fell
Comment by Fat Charlie the Archangel — 7/18/2006 @ 1:39 pm