well, now...

whew! all done!

that was frustrating but informative. i am now able to put pictures on (except not with my user name).

i am happy about 'adding pictures to posts' although i still don't have all the permutations figured out. and the 'not being able to put my picture with the blog' thing is because this is a family (multiple bloggers) blog. each of us can have our pix with our profile (you can add it, guys, if you want) but we can't have it on the main screen.

and i can't figure out a way to fix the code so that my picture will show up with any comments i make. oh well ... you learn a little bit of this and a little bit of that, then go shooting off in a new direction.

right-o ... wheeeeeee-heeeeeee -- here we gooooooo.........

oh yeah -- i downloaded Picasa 2 (Google's picture-handling software) along with Hello which is 'an instant messaging and sharing pictures at the same time' thing. both are free and in the beta stage. well, no wait ... i don't think Picasa http://picasa.google.com/ is beta, but Hello http://www.hello.com/ is version 1. Both seem to be pretty easy to use (unless you are 58) and will undoubtedly be used a lot by me. be nice.