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In my dream this morning, I was in a crowded room and was waiting to receive the grades for two papers I had written. I was pretty sure I'd aced both of them, but when handed to me, I saw that the long one was covered with red ink and graded "D" (actually it was "D^" because I guess I needed to be reminded it was a dream) and the other one was just as covered with red ink, but graded a "C". I couldn't understand how I could have been so wrong about what I thought I knew. It's still bothering me because it reflects how I feel about a lot of things in real life recently.

My Flickr Pro subscription, which I've maintained since there was such a thing, renews on March 15th for $73. For the first time ever, I'm thinking I might not renew it. I've been on Flickr since 2004. I still prefer it as a place to put photos. The problem, I guess, is that it's no longer the popular place to share photos (hasn't been for a while) and it's also stagnated in recent years. I was all fired up when SmugMug bought them, but what's happened since then? Nothing much that I can see.

I'll probably renew, just because of our history together. I've got thousands of photos spanning decades on the service. It would be a shame to give that all up now, just to save a few bucks. Still, it's a new and unnerving thing to think about.