Wednesday's Photo Thur-Fri

As I was skimming through my former roommate's blogs last week, I noticed a rather striking picture he'd taken on one of his cruises -- a picture of the famous moai statues carved from volcanic ash on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). I was not only intrigued by the photo, but with it's posting under the heading "Thurday Photo Challenge." To this point, the only photo challeges I'd seen online had been along the lines of "Friday Cat Blogging," in which I had neither the interest nor the critter to participate. So, I went digging for information on this more interesting (and applicable!) challenge and found not only the Thursday Photo Challenge, but Photo Friday as well.

Now, when I found these challenges last week the themes were thus: Thursday, Happy; Friday, Four. But being the anal blogger that I am, I could not post a Thursday Challenge on a random weekday. I had to wait. I considered that for Friday's Challenge I'd simply refer to my already posted Imperial Beach shot, which can boast both four arches and four palm trees. But again, I would wait for Friday to post. Of course -- and I'm sure you see my dilemma coming -- when Thursday (and then Friday) came, new challenges were posted (Hot and Friend) and my planned posts were outdated. Angst!

Being, as I've said, an anal blogger, I've had some difficulty reconciling this problem to myself. For my posts to be both current and posted on the correct day, I'd have to have a photo that fit the theme ready as soon as the challenge was announced -- and though I'd give myself major psychic points for being able to do so, I'd be cheated out of the week's opportunity to be creative. Finally, I took a bit of advice from a young Tom Cruise and remembered that "sometimes you just gotta say 'what the fuck!'"

So, before the challenges change again tomorrow and the next day, I'll accept all four previous challenges with one photo:

Ah. Four Happy Friends on a Hot day!

Of course, I can take only tongue-in-cheek credit for the use of this photo as I was not the photographer. I believe that honor goes to my sister-in-law. Should you, dear reader, be either the photographer or the subject, do not worry -- I did not submit this photo anywhere. Merely posted it here.

Bwah-hah-hah!

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Before I stand corrected, allow me to say that the Thursday Challenge does give one a week's heads-up on the upcoming theme and photos could, in fact, be posted on Thursday, both current and creative. Friday's Challenge does not.