tech challenge 2 posting

Hidee folks,
Here we go with a new ball game. I'm doing this for the fun of it but I hope to get some new things to use on a regular basis. Like I said on Emily's blog, I use bloglines a lot and librarything but there are a bunch of things we went through that I never use. I'm looking forward to all of your comments while participating. Carol

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Last Day of 2007

Hi Y'all,
Since this is the last day of 2007 I thought I'd tell everyone a happy new year! So HAPPY NEW YEAR! Not a whole lot happening around here. Katy and I just shared a cig on the porch and we talked about new years resolutions. I asked if she and Rick were going to quit smoking for the new year but she said there would be a little procrastination...they are waiting until the 11th of January because that date has been auspicious for them...it was the 11th of January last year that they went on their first date. So it would be pretty stupid of me to try to quit earlier than she does. She is notorious for letting me bum a smoke. There is another class for quitting starting up in Bardstown, we went to it the year before, or last year, I can't remember. Anyway, it worked great for Ron. He hasn't smoked since. I know I have fallen off the wagon at least twice since then. I guess it was two years because I got back on the wagon when we went on the cruise and that was November of 06. Time sure flies. Ron is working on his model airplane and it is keeping him out of trouble. I got him a balsa wood model of a Stearman for Christmas. This has been the year of the Stearman. He got to ride in a Stearman when we went to Galesburg, Ill. We bought a poster and put it up in the basement stairwell to go with all his other model planes and then I got him an old Navy training film (on DVD) on how to fly a Stearman for Christmas too. It is very interesting. I was following along nicely until the 4h chapter. At that point there was just too much to remember but Ron thinks he wants to fly one now. I took some photos this morning out in the backyard with all the frost on the yard art. No frost on the dog but I got some good photos of July too. If I can remember how to do it, I will post them to this blog so everyone can see them. That's all for now. Hope everyone has a great 08! Carol

a new day

OK folks, I got this apple laptop for my husband for our anniversary and I've got to figure out how to use it before he gets home from DC. Katy kids me because this is supposed to be his present and she says I got it for myself. She's partially right. I wanted us to have a laptop to be able to take it on trips with us and I had to decide whether to get one with Vista or XP. There are very few laptops left with XP on them so I figured that if I had to get a new operating system anyway, I might as well switch over to the MAC. Emily has a big influence on me...She loves Apple and I figure she knows better than me. The biggest issue is whether or not Ron's word processing will stay in the same format he is using on his pc. He has to have this book turned into the publisher on WORD. We just have to figure out how to do that on this mac and everything else will be a fun learning curve...I hope. I havent found freecell or solitaire on this computer and that annoys me. Sometimes you just want to hum instead of sing with your brain. Is that an apt analogy for playing freecell? Works for me. Anyway, yesterday in the library a young lady came in with her laptop and wanted to print off of it. I said we had no way of doing that, so she wanted to copy her stuff onto one our computers and print it off from there. OK, good, no problem. Then when she had it hooked up, computer to computer, no disc, no thumbdrive, she couldn;t get the new Vista word processor to jive with our word on our XP systems. That made me think I have made a good choice. She ended up saving the work to notepad and putting it on our computer's notepad and it worked out all right. I'm sorry to say that I didn't get the whole process of what she had done...you know how it is on the desk...but I would have liked to know all the gyrations she actually went through since I'm sure it will come up again with everyone switching over to Vista. I guess I'd better do something other than screw around with this. More later! Carol

Surprise!

OK. I'm going to do this because I enjoyed it during the 24 things. NOW it is not a chore, it is a luxury and you know how those things go on the list of things that actually get done. This coming from a person who can waste a ton of time on free cell. It is my day off, the cat is curled in front of the computer and the house is warming up from the overnight heat shutdown. I bought a Kitchen Aid stand mixer at Lowe's last week and as soon as the hour is decent for turning it on, I'm going up to start on making some yeast bread. I have made bread before on several occasions with enough time between them to forget how much physical work it is to knead that dough. Those pioneer women must have been tough to do that every time they needed a loaf of bread. Now the mixer will do the hard part. I'm also taking a KYVL class on library technical stuff. We got to cataloging this past week. I got the AACL2 book out to read the first two chapters. OMG. Fortunately the instructor has a paper to go along with it that actually makes it somewhat understandable. Understandable...whether I remember it long enough to do any good is still up in the air. I went to the library's valentine party last night. It was upstairs and I didn't get up there until it was almost over so I didn't get to see how crowded it was but what I saw was a lot more pleasant than the times I have seen in the basement. I think the setting makes a big difference. Can't wait for the new building. Stephanie and Anne seemed like they were happy with the results. Catherine's quilling was a surprise. There were a lot of cute things she had patterns for. It seemed like a sweet little thing to do and the mom and daughter I talked to were quite taken with it. Is there anything other than library stuff I can talk about...I have a bunch of music on my MP3 player. I keep finding new stuff I forgot about and go back and download more. My credit card bill is going to be a big surprise this month. It feels like a lot but when you think about it, how much can it be? Less than a dollar a song and maybe 2 or3 every other day or so...maybe average out to one a day. That's 30 bucks. Wow. Two teens at the library game night the other night had their laptops with them and had their music library's up. One would play a song for 30 seconds and the other one would bust in with "You gotta hear this" and start up another. They were very polite to each other about it and it was an education for me. I pretty much stay with music I know and love...which is what I listened to in my teens, twenties and thirties....some forties. I'm sure they will consider Marilyn Manson the same way I do Simon & Garfunkle or The Doors when they get to my age. The one boy teen was doing the head banging thing...I was thinking "you are going to give yourself a headache" while watching him. Times change. Guess I'm going to get off my fat behind and get something done. Somebody else write something.