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After reading Richard's advice, I took another stab at that opening strip. I used a ruler more, found out how to increase the color tolerance when painting in PhotoStudio, and shortened my signature. Some things are probably not as good as before, but on the whole, I'm glad to have done the redux.

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Multithoughter (a post conveying thoughts on multiple subjects)

1. These days, nothing makes me feel like an adult more than hearing about former classmates having been married, as happened yesterday. (No, I do not feel left out. I have very little drive to find a love interest, tho I wouldn't object.)

2. Since I've started warming to netizens of disparate politics, my main regret is not that my friendoids, if you will, don't get along with one another, but that I've lost confidence in my ability to judge the best stance on many issues. For my every friendoid who loves An Inconvenient Truth, there is another who calls it skewed if not false. For each one who favors aid to illegal immigrants, another calls it dangerous. For each one who says that gun regulation is harmful, another says the opposite. Both sides in each case have compiled reasons and evidence that look good to my politically puny mind. I can't choose based on the arguer's intellect, virtue, politeness, or sense of humor either, because I see those in both abundance and deficiency on each side. I almost didn't post this for fear that I'd just get more of the same stagnating and generally negative-focused argument in my LJ.

So as much as I may welcome my self-realization as an adult, I am glad to be in a position of very little power. It takes pressure off me to decide things.

3. I do have enough confidence to give advice regarding ringtones: choose one that starts moderately pleasant but becomes cacophonous in a few seconds. That way, you'll be motivated to answer promptly, but people won't question your audio taste.

4. Speaking of taste, anyone here tried Berger Cookies? Depending on your perspective, they are either the best in the world or the worst. Picture a quarter-inch-thick chewy wafer topped with a half-inch of fudge. The Bible study group member who introduced me to them and brought more two nights ago says that they can be bought anywhere cookies are sold in Baltimore but nowhere else. If so, I'll look for them the next time I visit family in Bawlmer. (Google tells me you can order them, but I can't see myself doing that.)