My Favorite Picture

In honor of my birthday tomorrow, I wanted to restore the original erp's blog picture.

A more perfect image I can't imagine and wish I could take credit for painting/photographing it. Alas, all I can take credit for is, finally after many false starts, figuring out how to upload it. That was almost five years ago when my laptop was new and shiny. Little did I know just how much fun I would have with it and how indispensable it and the internet would become.

To all my cyberfriends, those who share my world view (kinda) and those who have agreed to disagree on some issues, thank you for spending time here and inviting me to drop in at your digs and a special thanks to all you technical geniuses for sharing so generously of your expertise.

The blogosphere has, in a way, made up for what I've missed most about retirement, the interaction with college students both those who worked for me and others with whom I crossed paths. Most of them were girls, well women in the current vernacular, and we had many deep conversations about how they saw their role in society. Some of them were kind enough to credit those conversations with an increase in their self-confidence and I'm very proud that one of the smartest and most insecure of them actually applied to a prestigious law school, got accepted and has gone on to some impressive achievements.

Oh, and I did hire some boys (men) too ... for the heavy lifting you know mostly in the computer lab. That was actually the most fun because computers were in their infancy then and I spent many hilarious hours and quite a few all-nighters with first generation nerds as they tried to help me get those beasts to do what I wanted. I wish I could remember their names because I think of them often and hope they were among those who made gazillions in the world of high tech.

Anyway, it's another gorgeous day in sunny Florida and I wish you were all here to enjoy it.