That sucks, I've lost something precious

[Occhidiangela]

I have no idea where the photo, digital version, of my LL avatar is. The version at RBD is a copy of a copy, as it were.

EDIT: Bolty salvaged it, thanks to Bolty! However ...

That photo is one of the few pictures that means anything to me. There is a story with it that I cannot find, that I emailed to a few friends on the Lounge, that captured how I felt about what that pile of stones represented.

An email from 2004. It was a story that I had hoped would be printed in Newsweek's "My Turn column" but at the time, I suppose I was stroking the wrong political string to have any of their *&^!!@# editors accept it.

Maybe now it will resonate.

I have had two hard drive crashes, a motherboard eat itself, a second one eat itself somewhat, and a few CR-R's with stuff I wrote on the Lounge stop feeding the Hard Drives their data. Most of my Lounge stories are lost to time.

If any of you have emails from me from the year 2004, please take a look through them and see if you can find the story about me and clam and the air force major and the pile of rocks.

Thanks

Occhi