Unaccountably I have received an email from a nice person (a stranger!)
who has looked at my blogs! Exciting!

"Cool blog! I followed the most recently updated link from blogger.com because
the name sounded interesting, and it didn't disappoint. :) (Actually, I found
atomic-raygun first and then followed the link to firemist red.) You have some
*awesome* photos."

I replied:
Thank you, shinybluegrasshopper, for visiting my blogs! I've got off the track with Atomic
Raygun -- it was supposed to be a way to gather information about the things
we need for our world to be better. It's turned into a whine-fest, though,
and I should CUT IT OUT (I probably won't, though). I checked out your
blog, and I can see that you are doing lots to make society more bearable.
Thank you. Yarrow looks like a clever dog -- and so beautiful. Also --
YES, I am the major reader, and I had heard somewhere a little bit about
bookcrossing (thought it was cool, did nothing...). I just signed up
because of you, however, and am thinking about how I'm going to do this. My
friend Annie B. had a friend who did reverse shoplifting. That is, she went
into a nice store and surreptitiously took an unwanted knick-knack out of
her coat, left it as part of a display, then split. I've always loved that
idea (I thought it would be cool to video someone releasing a crocheted
toilet roll doll into the wilds of, say, Nordstrom). Maybe I can use the
"stealth" part of that idea to have a little fun. AND -- "firemist red" is
a car color, but I have this fab picture in my head of what it SHOULD look
like (a metallic color that looks different from each angle, but is mainly a
golden-y, reddish, silver-y... uh, I can see it but I can't describe it).