How frustrating! I finally got some names from Gregg yet ended up with the very problem I was afraid I’d end up with. Unfortunately, he only had names from ’77 and ’78 and nothing from ’76, which I think is the most likely year that I was at Camp Naomi. I ran some of the names, but the problem is that you have to pay to send messages on most sites except for Facebook and MySpace. So I sent several messages to people with the names he gave me, then FB decided I must be spamming and disabled my account. rolls eyes Oh well, it’s only Facebook. I almost never use FB or MS, and when I do it’s usually cuz of some contest. I have been messaging Jessie on FB, though, so I told her to go back to emails until I get the account squared away and reactivated, and I think I will. Still, they need to come up with a better way to send multiple messages to those who aren’t “friends.”

I’m grateful to Gregg for taking the time to come up with the names for me, but if any of them are the person I’m looking for, I don’t know where to begin as far as making contact goes. None of the names jumped out at me. I still say it’s someone from ’76. I already know who the unit head of ’74 was and we don’t remember each other, so it’s almost certainly someone from ’76. I wish it were the same people every year! But it’s just a summer temp job, so the unit heads and nurses change every year. I’m also almost certain it was a unit head. I doubt she could’ve been a nurse because we spent the whole morning together. It’s hard to believe we could’ve hung out together and played with her dog in the woods all morning long without her having to see anyone had she been a nurse.

Damn! I wish I still had that Polaroid she gave me! It should have a year on it. If it said something like 1971, that wouldn’t mean much if it were taken years before the earliest I could’ve possibly been there, but if it said 1975 or 1976, that’d confirm that no, I wasn’t there in 1974. And somehow I doubt she’d have taken a Polaroid of the dog to camp that had been taken years ago.

sighs Guess there’s nothing else either of us can do at this point. I’m just not meant to know who she was. All I can do is hope she gets curious enough to check for anything online like I did and happens to stumble upon my posts and remembers me. She should remember more than me. She was an adult. At least we tried! Maybe in another 14 years, I’ll come even closer.

I’m having doubts about doing the AdSense thing.

Tom’s still working at that site I mentioned yesterday. I got a comment on KB from someone saying they’d been working there for two years, but they have dial-up, so they can’t do much. Tom said he thinks he can do even more once he gets his Mac back, though that’s not looking likely till November. Meanwhile, he’s only doing small jobs to make sure he really is going to get paid for at least most of them. If so, then he’ll move on to bigger jobs that pay more.

At the end of my day yesterday I had become convinced that upping my daily calorie burn wasn’t going to help and that I should cut my calories some more (not that I want to lose more weight bad enough to actually do so), but now I’m not so sure. I awoke down half a pound, even though I should be up. I had around 2000 cals yesterday and only burned 300. Today’s goal is 400. Every hour I ride off 30. Gotta go do that now!

Later…

I thought I’d stop in and do a little update, even though it’s not much of one. I’ve got a total of 330 calories burned on my hourly bike rides, but now my knees are starting to get to me, so I might not make my goal of 400 today. When I’m able to do 400 a day, that should amount to just under an hour of riding.

It’s cloudy and cool today. We have the windows shut and the fans turned off. We’ll need to open windows later, but probably not until the afternoon. I’m just glad it’s not going down to 28º tonight like it will in K-Falls!

Let’s see, what else. I haven’t started the French course yet, but I reviewed a little Italian and Portuguese, I worked on my story, I proofread/edited old journals, plus I did my usual online work and hobbies. Listened to music for a while, too.

Later…

OK, I brought my total burn to 350 calories and now my knees are saying, “No more today!” So 400 will just have to wait.

I feel like writing, but have nothing to say. I hate coming to the end of my day and not being ready to sleep, but not awake enough to do anything productive. Guess I’ll just go play some Yahoo games.