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Just Shelley

City of Salt

I stepped out for a look around earlier today, getting fairly well drenched in a summer rain storm. Afterwards, I felt like I was in a sauna and finally had to come back to the hotel to cool off. Adapting to the heat and humidity will take me a little time after the relatively cool, […]

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Just Shelley Travel

Pardon me—whose unwanted baggage am I tripping over?

The storm had cleared and with it took much of the humidity. The temperature was still warm, but manageable. Best of all a gentle breeze was blowing down off the mountains. I went walking around Temple Square, drifting in and around wedding parties, tourists, and Mormon Sisters who were helping folks. I walked by one […]

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Writing

Typos, screw ups

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just had to fix several images for the Essential Blogging book. There was a typo in several of the screenshots – I used “weblob” rather than “weblog”. It would be funny, but after a while, I get tired of mistakes. I get tired of using the wrong word, but […]

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People Weblogging Writing

AKMA meets Ferret Face

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wanted to point you to a Pixelview interview with AKMA that went online this week. I thought AKMA did a nice job with the interview questions. I hesitated to link to the interview considering that it was conducted by my old friend, Head Lemur, a man who has been less than complimentary about […]

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Just Shelley

The race

In my late teens I was going out with a guy who was heavily into hydroplane racing — stock outboard racing to be exact. Brian raced A stock, one of the smaller types with a maximum speed of 50-55 MPH. I became a fairly decent and respected crew member, with Brian as well as other […]