First off, I want to agree with Stephanie from I speak film when she says she is melting in this heat. It is all kinds of hot here in Southern California! Triple digits for that many days in a row?? Unbelieveable! I’m definitely ready for fall! I’m using so much of my energy just typing this post right now (it takes a lot of energy to type that many exclamation points!) that there’s just none left to get out my camera and be creative. Just…too…hot…to…try…

Actually, I took a bunch of photos this weekend, and I’ve been dying to get them on Flickr. With the laptop getting a tune-up this week, and me having no access to download my memory card, I haven’t been able to upload anything to my Flickr account in over a week. And now that we have the computer back, it appears to be unable to read our cards and seems destined to be sent back to the laptop hospital for a re-tweak.

It’s pretty crazy to realize that even just a year ago a week-long idle Flickr account would have been no big deal for me. In fact, I would go months in the past without posting a photo. (I actually used to think that having a Pro Account was frivolous and unnecessary until I was gifted one last year. I will never go back!) But these days I start twitching if I don’t get new photographs up almost daily. Flickr’s become a drug — I check it often for comments and new photos from my contacts. And I realized that being away for even just over a week has really made me miss it and the community that it has become.

I do believe Flickr has a chance to become the new MySpace (only cooler). Heh. C’mon, Flickr — I’m rooting for you! Anyone else way more into Flickr than a grown person should be? I know I’m not the only addict out there.