It ain't rocket surgery.

And yet, any time I figure out one tiny piece of HTML, I feel as if I have cracked some top-secret code.

: )

This time, I figured out — since Dashboard was of absolutely NO help whatsoever, telling me my profile photo had to be a GIF or JPEG (hey, what part of .JPG is NOT a JPEG??!) — how to bring my photo from the previous site. And the words that go with it. Honestly, I don't know quite how aware I was of having a baby sister at that point in my life, but I do like how happy I seem to be there in my little inflatable pool.

Every time I look at those old photos, and ones older than that, I am amazed by the quality of the black-and-white pictures from long ago. And then I look at the color 5-by-7 photo I printed earlier of the clover on my medium-quality inkjet printer (the Lexmark X83) — and granted, I need to change the color cartridge but am trying to squeeze every last drop out of the one I have — and the quality is total crap!

I know I will get a decent print, but still. How long will these photos hold up? Is there any way that, 50 years from now, the ink will still be vivid? Will there be any images at all?

Will it matter?

For now, my thumbs hurt.