Okay, so the photo uploadification process works, courtesy of Hello. This is software from the folks who brought you Picasa, a photo-handling package I started using a year ago. It's wonderful, except it can't do captions. For that, I have ACDSee. And for quick editing, I use Microsoft Digital Image Suite. (I bet there's a photo program that can do everything. And I bet it's exclusively for Macs.)
So, yes, the photo, although you have to click on it to make it big enough to read the sign in the window. But you can click on it, which is cool.
And yes, it's a little after 6 in the morning. Until I moved to Paris and got a day job, I had no idea I could wake up and actually function at such an hour. Most newspapers publish in the mornings, which means they're put together in the evenings, so that's when the production editors work. I worked from around 4 p.m. to midnight most of my life, would get to bed around 2 or 3 a.m., wake up at 11. The IHT has a shift like that, too, for the European edition, but I usually work on the Asia edition, so I'm on a Hong Kong schedule.
The day shift is not the problem. The problem is axial tilt. Sunrise was at 5:47 today. Sunset will be at 9:53. It's still twilight when I go to sleep. Or try to. Still, I'd rather deal with too much sunlight than the Stalingradesque winters, with their short days, perpetual overcast and frequent rain. (For those of you humming "April in Paris," try November here.) Most people don't realize how far north Paris is -- farther north than Halifax. Although not as far north as Saint Petersburg, Russia, which I have ruled out as a retirement destination. I'll head for someplace closer to the equator.
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