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A Picasa Find

I've been playing around with Picasa and digging up some (relatively) old photos that were "lost" on some of my different network drives. (Yes, I have the habit of storing files on network shares in places where they really don't below, only to forget where I put them. What makes sense at one moment in time usually doesn't withstand the test of time to make sense at any point in the future. This is the story of my life.)

Since I was amused by by some of the photos, I'd thought I'd share them with you.


Meme from 2005-01




Meme (again) from 2004-12




Three Beautiful Women from 2004-12

Okay, that's it for now, I'll post more as I find them...trust me, there's alot of them! (This should provide me with blogging content for quite a while!)

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