Life of Brian

 
Sally has lived in Santa Fe for 3 years and has wanted to go to the Petroglyphs National Monument. Even though the park is a mere 45-minute drive straight down I-25 with a zig to the west before downtown Albuquerque, she’s never been. Today she got to check that box. We went to the visitor center first, even though there are no petroglyphs there. But we wanted to make a pit stop because not all of the 4 different locations have bathrooms. And I wanted to buy a postcard and sticker. From there we rolled down the road a bit to the Rinconada Canyon Unit, which, according to the NPS website, has 300 petroglyphs. Along the 2-mile trail, only the first half along the volcanic escarpment has the petroglyphs. We probably missed quite a few, but what we did see was a lot.

When we got off of I-25 to head towards the Visitor Center, I had a powerful sense of déjà vu. As the route continued, I was almost positive I’d been here before, and when I passed a Dunkin, I knew I had. This is the way I drove last April to Mr. Revlimiter’s house to have him install a set of his gauges in the recently departed ND3 Miata. And had we gone to the Boca Negra unit of the Petroglyph National Monument, I would have passed his house just a couple blocks over.

Back on Saturday my post was about sending in new photos to RadioParadise and I actually tried to do so on Sunday. But that didn’t go so well. I entered eight pictures in the slots provided on the upload page and hit enter. A couple of seconds later I received a 413 Forbidden. Huh? So I tried just one photo and got the same 413 error.

All the photos are in 4K resolution of 3840×2160, and most of them are around 1.5 MB. I speculated maybe there was a 1MB limit. Turns out I had 4 photos, so I tried them one at a time. Each time I received a page that said I had successfully uploaded a file, but there were several lines at the top of the page that said, Warning:Blah, blah, blah.. So I sent in a screenshot next on the upload page.

Yesterday morning I received an email back from Mike V. the RP Photo Editor:

Hi Brian,
I see that you have uploaded several new images to the RP Slideshow. Unfortunately, that is all I can see.

They are having some issues with a new interface for the slideshow, and unfortunately it is not all going to plan. All I can see is a black screen. Therefore, I am unable to accept or decline your photos. Please save them, and as soon as all returns to normal, I will send you an email. I have no idea how long this problem will take to fix.

To be continued…

 
1) Sally had a dentist appointment.
2) I did something from my job jar.
3) We went out getting body shop estimates for the Tucson.*
4) There was a brief walk and a trip to the grocery store.
5) And we watched Molly’s Game.

*Oh, did I forget to mention that while in Hammond I tried to squeeze the Tucson into a narrow parking spot of a restaurant and scraped the front bumper and fender of her car, all along a parked one? Between her body work and theirs, it will definitely be the most expensive bowl of gumbo I will ever eat.

A totally unexciting day, but a very productive one.

1) An hour at the gym (see above.)
2) Sally did some yard work.
3) We delivered a car that has been sitting in her yard since last May to someone who is brokering its sale.
4) Lunch out.
5) Facetimed with her mom.
6) Did some guerrilla car shopping for the Tucson replacement.

Tomorrow is likely just as unexciting…

Spent most of the afternoon photoshopping images.

I have previously submitted photos to Radio Paradise for use on their slideshow that is a visual element while streaming their music. The first batch was of 33 images (see ’em here), and they selected 13 or 14. Of those, I still see about 4 of them from time to time.

I’m going to send them a new batch, and this time around I’ve selected 23 for uploading (see ’em here). When the 1st batch went up, they wanted only the image, but since then, they let you a bit of text in the lower right corner Copyright or your name or webpage. What I’m doing is adding just where they were taken because when I see a cool image of a place, I always wonder where it is.

Now that I’ve got Santa Fe Sally hooked on RP’s mellow mix, she wants in on it too. So I cropped, resized, and added text to 18 of hers that’ll get uploaded too. It’ll be fun to see how many of ours get used.

I had a whole long post about me watching this show and bingeing it in 3 days. But I accidentally overwrote it. Too bad, it was a masterpiece…