Flickering

I seem to be able to get to the "27 things" less than once a month, being mostly harbored at Skyway and barely able to accomplish my standard assigned tasks, LA/LTA stuff and magazines/lost and found, but here I am at Tukwila for a sub shift and I finally managed to complete Week 5. I had previously signed up for a Flicker account, which was really no different from signing into my Yahoo account. Even without a Yahoo account it would be very simple to get a new Flicker account.

Where I ran into problems was in figuring out how to upload pictures I'd taken from my phone while doing this at work. It would have been relatively simple to upload my pictures from the phone to my personal "pc", and from there upload them to Flicker, but I didn't have the mini-usb cord needed to accomplish that here. Today I was able to go online to complete the necessary steps to send photos taken with my phone directly to Flicker. Once I had that accomplished it was a very simple task to upload the photo, tag it and add a description. The one I chose for this exercise is a picture of the entrance to Tukwila Library, and I managed to use Flicker's built in photo editing service to do some minimal photo editing. As with most things on the web or on the computer, what is most necessary is to read the screen and follow directions.

Now that I've completed this part I'll now be off to continue with my learning process. I'm impressed with the simplicity of these exercises, but sometimes overwhelmed by the amout of information that is available. As Americans we have all been led to believe that happiness and freedom are the result of a multiplicity of choices, but my readings in Zen, most notably by Steven Hagen and Charlotte "Joko" Beck, suggest that a multitude of choices will lead rather to suffering than to happiness. Interesting how two different cultures can see the same circumstances so differently.