Lesson 8 is interesting but I've yet to understand why I NEED another place for my bookmarks. Favorites on Yahoo works just fine for me. After I created a Delicious account & put all my favorites there, I couldn't see much difference than what I used in Yahoo favorites, except for organizing according to type. It is good to know all this creative stuff is out there & maybe some day I'll be inspired to play around with it more. Perhaps people who live at their computers on their jobs would find these sites exciting & useful. I'm just excited to be able to create & retrieve my circulation schedule I'm working on for 2009 in Microsoft Office & Excel, challenge enough for right now! Does this date me?

I thought after today's Health Fair & all the talk of body fat this was perfectly appropriate. Dark chocolate is a healtlh food so think healthy!

I'm moving right along with a free account in Google docs! I did a test document that it actually saved. Lesson 7 social networking "one-stop-shopping" is intriguing, I had no idea all that stuff is out there. Since I didn't need a new partner or a job I skipped over that part! A check of Jasmine Rockwell's My Space was interesting, as was Julie Erickson's. However when I looked at Wynne Sayer's I didn't appreciate the language in samanthacr's interests in the little pink box so that was the end of THAT for me! I was shocked to see that language so my interest in My Space dimmed considerably.

You tube is interesting! I decided I needed something humorous & "mindless" but I DID pick something involving a book! Family Guy Electric Man shocked the dog reading a book! I didn't know that when I started watching it so it made it all seem "work related" & not JUST play!!!

Update: I spoke too soon about my excitement of downloading a podcast from Comic Talk Cafe! I was told my computer couldn't download it, and I was welcome to purchase software related to this file type! I said no thanks. Sometimes I feel like there has to be a simpler way to do all this exciting stuff!

I think the old addage "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" is false. This old gal is learning a new vocabulary! I actually knew what they were talking about with a podcast since I get information from a medical clinic in a podcast. I looked at commoncraft.com, mediafly, clicked on audio books, Fitness Rocks & tried to do a feed with Fitness Rocks but they didn't publish a feed, I was informed. Sigh! I tried Podcast.com, category books, picked Comic Talk Cafe podcast, & actually got it downloaded without incident! Amazing stuff! It's also amazing how many WINDOWS I had open!

Be sure you have a LARGE block of time before you attempt this. I chose Mediafly.com, then was told to go to GoodleVideo, I clicked on Health, then Yoga today. After 9 minutes (seriously) of watching this colored wheel spin, I exited that site & clicked on Tranquility du jour, which was The Tranquil Chick outlining her workshop & retreat schedule for the rest of 2008 & into 2009 plus information about her Tranquility Clothing Line, not at all what I thought it would be. Next I tried Fitness Rocks, which was some guy saying all nutritional supplements, herbs, etc. were bad for you since the label can say anything it wants. After 10 minutes, I shut him off & got into Perseus Podcasts of bestselling authors. I thought you could select a book or author but that did not happen. None of the books listed interested me. I tried Self-Help & listened a bit to Dave Ramsey's show about getting out of debt. Apparently there are zillions of options if you have the time/interest to search. I did add the Perseus Podcast/best selling authors to my RSS feeds. This was just the very FIRST part of the exercise & it took over an hour. Every time I see that I must SUBSCRIBE to something or create another account it makes me a tad nervous. I've lost so many things out there somewhere (my card, map, etc.) I wonder who all has access to my "stuff" I can't find! The activity was aptly named a "challenge"!!!!!

Halloween costume humor

A patron told me Friday he & his wife noticed the new sign on the front door of the library saying bottled drinks are allowed in the library. He told his wife "I'm glad to see the library has gotten into the modern age of allowing drinks." Then he said, "And then YOU walked out (in my pioneer woman costume) & I told my wife, well maybe not the WHOLE library has gotten into the modern age."