i recently realized that the more photos i post, the faster people go when they look through them. it's the same in real life, too... your buddy comes back from a vacation with two handfuls of pics, so you look through them as fast as possible... flipping through them like shinobi going through ninja stars.

if your buddy came back from her 2-month vacation with only FOUR photos, you'd spend maybe a minute chatting about each one.

it's basically a time management thing.

people do this because, in general, they subconsciously allocate a block of time for a given task... also, the busier life gets then the smaller the block of time we set aside for a given task. so we rough-hand divide the block of time by the number of photos, and that's why we spend so little time on any given photo.

sometimes it takes me a few hours to select, crop and (occaisonally) digitally twiddle a photo for posting. if you wanna print it out and use it as toilet paper, that's your thing. if you wanna stop and smell the roses, well... i appreciate it. this xanga is for you.

title says it all. road trip to ensenada, mexico. really good seafood restaurant, trying to buy gas using spanish, getting robbed by banditos and being hassled by the U.S. border patrol... okay, some of those didn't happen. the border patrol was actually very nice. i know! who woulda thunk...

Random non-image stuff:

for about the first 10 months in the existence of this blog, i was posting a picture every day. with the exception of a handful of vacations, two days where i forgot, and one stretch where i was in a major funk from losing my job, i posted a photo a day.

do you realize how hard it is to squat and shart out a photo post every day? i don't know about you, but that takes some serious dedication... or maybe i'm just dang lazy... ;þ

anyway... i'm getting to the point where i need to put together another gallery. the first one, called "gallery 140", was a selection from the first 140 pics posted (i'm creative like that, be careful around me). in stunning conformance with hallowed tradition, the second group of 140 pics will be used in a gallery to be named "gallery OMG WTFBBQ UROXXR MAI BOXRSS!!!!!!11111". or something... i guess.