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Snakes on a pediment, at the Coca-Cola Company, 711 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

I've been working and messing around with pictures. Surprise, surprise. Not too many of the shots from New York turned out, what with this not being a leisurely photographic tour, but I'm pleased enough with the ones that did. They're in the Big City set. This "snakes on a pediment" picture of the Coca-Cola doorway got linked up by another blog, which must get a lot more traffic than mine, because this image has gotten more views in a day than any of the rest of the pictures in my photostream since I started messing around on Flickr.

Oh, the work? I seem to be done with the huge mass of patents for litigation, which has been keeping me busy for the past few months. Right now, ah bliss! I have no work scheduled for next week. I'm alternately planning chores to do, imagining being lazy and doing none of them, and having little attacks of "oh no! I'll never work again!"

Odds are I'll work again. Odds are pretty good I'll work again next week, especially if I plan to go shop for a new shower enclosure for my bathroom.

Today we expanded our carbon footprint a little more and drove up to Fredericksburg to see if we could find a chest of drawers in one of the antique shops on Caroline Street. We didn't, but Oz found a very stylish Italian hat which looked awful on me. It really belongs on an Italian lady. While I was sitting on a shady bench out on the sidewalk and waiting for Oz to finish up in one store, I saw a flock of Red Hat Society ladies, all in purple and red hats, descend on an ice cream store. They were moving too fast for me to get a picture, but they were carrying digital cameras. I guess they've got the photographic documentation covered for themselves. At a stationery store we acquired little fancy-pants notebooks and disposable fountain pens. We're so literary. Next thing you know, we'll be hanging out in cafes and pretending to write poetry.