Day 2

I've been taking pictures of Dalmatians for many years. Every time we rescue an abandoned or stray dog, we need a picture for the Dalmatian Rescue website.  When Dallas Summer Musicals brought The 101 Dalmatians Musical to town this December, I thought it would be a great idea to have a gallery show in the theater lobby featuring portraits of 101 different Dalmatians who had found new homes as a result of the rescue group's efforts.  Unfortunately, the theater didn't have room for a full scale exhibit, but they did say that if I made some sort of poster featuring the rescued dogs, they would display it in the theater during the musical's Dallas performances.  The resulting 17" x 48" poster you see above is now getting a lot of attention from the theater audience and hopefully it will help increase awareness for Dalmatian Rescue of North Texas.  I think this poster would make a great public service outdoor board. All we need to do is find someone at Clear Channel who likes Dalmatians.

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Day 1

It's odd in a way that it has taken me so many years to discover blogging.  I kept a hand written daily journal for over 15 years. I was one of the first to discover Compuserve using an clumsy sewing machine shaped Osborne computer and a 300 Baud modem.  Later, I became a fan of Usenet Newsgroups and posted on a daily basis to my favorite forums using a wide variety of early, and very slow, Macintosh computers.  When people began talking about something called "The World Wide Web," I was there, looking over the landscape using a new-fangled piece of software called Mosaic.  My own piece of online real estate, the Sealander & Company website, has been online since 1995. Over the years, what started as a simple five page site that was created over a long weekend, evolved into several hundred pages of stories, photos,  videos, stray thoughts and lame attempts to increase the size of my business without having to network or knock on doors.

Maybe this is why I never understood blogging.  I always used to think that my site actually was a blog. It certainly contained all the normal things you typically expect to find in a good blog.  I never made the Technorati Top 100 however.  Maybe it was because I would only update things once in a Blue Moon.  Maybe it was because I wasn't wild about having people comment about my creation. I finally had to admit that although my online domain was a very nice looking website, it certainly wasn't a blog.

So, in the spirit of those old hand written daily journals, where I used to waste an inordinate amount of time detailing what I ate for dinner and where I was traveling next, I will begin again with daily ramblings that hopefully evolve over time into something worth reading.  I can't promise literary greatness, but I will promise to write something new every day for at least six months.  FF4EW7N8EM6Z

Dalmatian of the Day

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