Worst Blog Post Ever

Tonight, I sat down to do a little Halloween blogging of my own. I knew it wouldn't be anything to compare to "Dolyn"s mega countdown marathon, but I thought I'd whip up a nice, quaint little number, brimming with good ol' autumn cheer. My plan was to create a virtual representation of the costumes I've been planning for me and Sam using the "Paint" program on my computer. I even came up with the brilliant idea to paste actual photographs of us to the techno-easel and then create a likeness of my costume ideas on top of those photos using that little paint dot tool. I thought that way, I could create a version of my own creative dreams that my friends could see, even halfway across the globe. Instead, I created this:



Now, before you even comment on the image itself, please let me explain the utter HELL I went through even to get it onto this stupid blog o' mine. It is apparently impossible to save a file from the Paint program into a working JPEG. I found this out after saving it as every comprehensible file type known to man, and having Blogger tell me, in a very pleasantly-worded short paragraph, to go screw myself. I then thought, by jove, why don't I just take a snapshot of the Paint image on my computer screen using my digital camera? But no. My camera has decided that focus is an unnecessary component of picture-taking, and insists on making everything just blurry enough to really infuriate me. So then I remembered that, in true web-nerd fashion, I have an iSight webcam. So I tried to take a picture with that. But it created a TIFF file and not a JPEG, and Blogger does NOT like that, oh no. Eventually, I had to send the Paint file as an attachment to Sam's email so he could print it out on his color printer, and then I took a picture (with my defunct digital camera) of the poor quality printed image, hoping that it might be slightly less blurry if taken from a sheet of paper than from a computer screen. So that's why it looks like complete crap.

And oh yeah, the image itself was meant to be Sam as Gromit, the dog (see "Gromit" post, below). Note, if you will, those big poo-like appendages protruding on either side of his head. Those are meant to be ears. Needless to say, I didn't even bother going through with my own Wallace costume idea art project. If you'd like, you can just imagine me in a green sweater vest and khakis, carrying around a wedge of cheese.

That's it for tonight's post. Things have gotten out of hand.