This Creature is Lore

- I have $2.00 in library fees.  D=  I've never had a library fee before.  I reserved some items, evidently failed to pick them up within the allotted ten days, and each accrued a 1.00 reshelving charge.  Time flies, I thought I still had a couple days left to retrieve them.

- I'm outside with the laptop (yes, I'm really getting a kick out of having a laptop with a like 6-hour battery charge for the first time in my life) and the aroma of burning plastic periodically arrives upon the gentle breeze. 

- Laptop/cafe culture: if you have a laptop, you automatically qualify as trustworthy to keep an eye on another patron's laptop whilst they disappear for a few minutes to make a purchase or use the restroom.  I guess the (actually pretty reasonable) assumption is that 1.) you have your own laptop, so why steal someone else's and 2.) empathy exists: I wouldn't want mine stolen, so why would I steal or let someone steal yours?
Someone could set up a pretty nice racket based upon this social more though.  "Well, I asked that guy with the wide-brimmed hat and fake mustache to watch it, and when I came back he was gone, along with both the laptops."  "Funny, same thing happened yesterday to someone else, with the guy with the toupée and no mustache."

For the first time in over ten years, I've been inclined to share artwork with The Internet. Once upon a time I was adept at such things, but in that decade+ I have not kept up with the shifting knowledge required to competently deal with the programs involved. I'm progressing in that I found a place to scan the project in question, rather than taking a cheap photo of it with my mobile yet again.

But THIS ONE THING IS MYSTIFYING. When open for editing in either Gimp or MSPaint, the image is 1600x640 when viewed at 100%. It is another, smaller size in the 'windows picture & fax viewer.' I figured, okay, the latter program is being a simpleton--but, it also uploaded to Photobucket in the same smaller size, about 1000x450.
Yet when I right-click on the image file to get its properties, it -does- say it's the first and larger size, 1600x640.

WHY?