Basically Myra » photo http://www.basicallymyra.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:49:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Waiting for Ike http://www.basicallymyra.com/2008/09/12/waiting-for-ike/ http://www.basicallymyra.com/2008/09/12/waiting-for-ike/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:37:35 +0000 nmyra http://www.basicallymyra.com/?p=41 It has been a long day preparing and waiting for Hurricane Ike to make landfall on the coast of Texas.  With Ike on six hours away, I already feel completely saturated with media coverage on the storm.  Good luck to everyone along the Gulf Coast area bracing for Ike – especially Galveston.  I’m personally hoping that Houston will suffer only minor flooding and wind damage.  There have been some pretty amazing images taken by locals that just blow my mind.  This one caught my interest.  He’s hanging on just like the rest of us.

Hurricane Ike

Photo credit: Brett Coomer
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McCain Magazine Cover

]]> http://www.basicallymyra.com/2008/09/05/uncanny/feed/ 0 Face Your Manga http://www.basicallymyra.com/2008/08/14/face-your-manga/ http://www.basicallymyra.com/2008/08/14/face-your-manga/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:47:39 +0000 nmyra http://www.basicallymyra.com/?p=30 Create your own avatar with FACE YOUR MANGA.  It is fun application with many cool options to create an online version of yourself.  Here is my avatar I created.  I like to call it “Peace Out.”  If you know me, the peace out joke should make a lot of sense.  Pretty nifty that I could add that!  So what do you think?  Close enough?  If only I could add some hi-lites!

Peace Out

Peace Out!

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