Okay. The wife had a friend fly up from Texas for the weekend, then he got an email from the airline late Saturday afternoon that he had to go to the airport a day early--his flight was leaving on Sunday instead of Monday. I was also dealing with migrating a TB hard drive over the course of Saturday afternoon through Sunday afternoon. Then, 10 minutes before his flight left (he was already on the plane) they announced it had been cancelled and that everyone would have to wait until the next flight (on Monday, the one he was
supposed to take in the first place). Of course having already turned in the rental car, he had to rent a new one for the hour drive back to our house. (And I am still migrating the drive, though to be fair it's a different drive I'm migrating "back" to the old one).
I
have gathered the entries now (mostly, see below) and am currently working on the new contest rules/link/thread reopening hoopla, and that will happen shortly. I apologize for the delay, but I am unreliable enough that it has been worse before...
@l_strider_l: I cannot get the picture in your first entry to show up, no matter what I do. My usual "fix" for this is to
reply with quote and then use the link that shows up in the quote to go directly to the serving web page, but even doing this resolves to a web-page that displays nothing on my screen. There seems to be a facebook logo as the favicon so I don't know if it's being served from facebook or not (I don't book my face so they refuse to show me a lot of stuff from their site), but even viewing the page source only shows me the address itself as the page contents

Since I will not be able to print the entries out for use in determining the winner until I go back to work, I'll see if it shoes up there. Didn't have a problem with any of your other pics/entries.
@thewrightstuff: I
was able to extract your avatar and use it as an entry
