christmas is coming

Here we are only days away from what is supposed to be the biggest holiday of the year.
I'm not sure I can go with that concept. It's far too hectic and much too expensive for an ordinary sole such as me. In my old age even my kids are feeling the blahs of the impending big day. I must come up with an idea to make the season more joyous.
Things to try:
More presents
More people invited over to celebrate with us
More decorations to look at
More food to eat
How about less of all of the above and more time spent enjoying what the season is all about

Everyone says that----but------ how about actually trying to vocus on the concept of less is more and family is to love and enjoy. Running all over kingdom come to give and get is a real bummer.

# 22 & #23 (finally)

Net.library was pretty much a blow by- I really found more titles I might actually use in our database. When I get this mp3 thing, I'll try it out.

I have had a lot of fun and frustration trying out all these things. I'm very grateful that we were afforded this opportunity to explore.

In the beginning I called one of the blog champions for some advice, I was told that my ADD problem could not be addressed at that time. You may notice I have stuff all over the place.

You don't know the half of it- I didn't do things in order and I did a lot of stuff just because I wanted to, not necessarily because that step came next. The important thing for me is I had

a great learning experience. For a person my age, that is no lite statement. I also really appreciated the tenacity of some of our staff and the willingness to help others. This has been a fantastic bonding experience for most of the bloggers at YPL.

Again, I thank you all from my wannabe Pam's Perfect Princess' heart.

#21

http://www.thefrenchecole.com/soundbytes/podcast/tfe1.m4a I stole this site from my boss, HRH , Monster Woman, It's all about me, PWitte because even though she's the boss of me
at work, I can do anything she can do. This is still America. http://www.playsmoothjazzpiano.com/

#18&19

I have played with zoho and googledocs. I used google for schedules, which worked very well, I tried to use zoho for an ebay type thing to keep track of sales and whatnot. It wasn't that much
different from what I'm used to using at home. The big difference is the versatility of using the web. I can work on this from almost anywhere and other people can add to my forms if I choose to let them. I can see where this could really make a world of difference to small business and people without updated software. There's always people who just want the world to know what they're thinking. It seems to me that in time no one will have to buy programs for their home computers, we'll all just google whatever we need. This would have to be a good thing.

I checked out alot of the award winners from the short list. The thing I really appreciated the most was finally having a directory to access sites I would never have found on my own.

Weather Forecast | Weather Maps | Weather Radar

places I have been, so far

MAP

#16 & 17

I did set up a wiki page for myself using ppp as my address title. I haven't added any pages yet,but I did make a couple slide show type things. I need to have something worthy of sharing with the world to say. I have just been going crazy with all the techie stuff. I hope everyone loves what I did to my fireworks photos. If I can find great things to do with a wiki, there is no end to what the library can do with them. Think about all those great reference questions that take forever now, just taking minutes because every person whoever asked something similar put it in a wiki. Think of all the genealogy work being trimmed down to size. The everyday life stuff that has boggled the mind forever can finally be discussed rationally with about a millions strangers soon to become your new best friends.

This look alike is dancing to "Time Warp", because that is where I am.

#15

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/ This feed is something we could use , perhaps. In my kingdom libraries have always been librarian driven, in the future I can see libraries will be patron driven. We will provide
the place, perhaps the directory, and the internet will take care of most everything
else. The whole world is being reduced to a little tv screen. It's a really good thing that I'm already pretty old because I'm not sure that I'll be able to keep up

http://clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://plcmclearning.blogspot.com

#14

I visited the technorati tutorial and checked out the exercises. Interesting but I don't think I want to get that involved at this time. Maybe when I retire I'll need to expand my horizons to

a level where more is needed and I want the world to know it. Right now my kingdom is small and oh so technically challenged.

http://www.soundflavor.com/?rollyo I am just getting ready for my mp3.

http://www.soundflavor.com/?rollyo

#13

http://del.icio.us/ppp1 just a few items to try it out. I can see where this could be oh so useful.

I don't have time right now but I can see where this paticular feature could slow down all the bumping into sites that sidetrack me would be eliminated.

Thought for the day

Today, I am going through my blog steps to make sure I still remember what I have already done and how I did it. Benola is helping me remember because I seem to have a language problem. I also have a lack of technology problem but I can't talk about that. I've been very busy lately so I haven't been able to checkout other blogs. I want to do that too. This whole 23 step thing is eating away at what little self-esteem I had, it's one thing to adjust to growing old and perhaps not having acheived all of my life goals yet. It is quite another thing to have all this modern thinking pressed upon me and be left with the knowledge that I may need to expand my horizons even more than I ever imagined. Some could argue that growing is always a good thing and just keep going, but think about it: does anyone want to grow out? I may have opened a can of worms that I can't close, I may have to live well past 100 years to come close to getting everything done that I must.

My creation

My creation
Originally uploaded by laughnerc9

This member of royalty is not the fairest in the land, she is not perfect.
This member of royalty is a wannbe Pam's Perfect Princess.
This member of royalty may have magical powers.
If the blog thing ever gets past #23, you'll know the answer.

BACK IN THE GAME

Well, I've finished the new Harry Potter book. It was great. My royal husband even took me to see the new Harry Potter movie. It was really great but the royal husband did dose off a few times. I really don't know how he does that, it must be a closely guarded royal secret that a wannabe just doesn't know yet.
I wish I could dose off and wake up with blog thing all finished. I have decided to try working on it at home. The royal palace does not have high speed anything so this may turn out to be a royal mistake.
I did take the sorting hat quiz on the internet and found that,like Harry,I would be a Gryffindor.
I was correct in assumming that the turtle approach to blogging was not worth the effort. I will have to find time to do all this at work. Bummer it may take awhile but I suppose I'll get there.

Break

Okay, I'm someshere in T H I N G #7, but I must take a break. I was all gunho about this blog thing but I must say: I keep getting lost. Whenever I investigate a site or look around the web for some interesting yet simple help, I get sidetracked. There is so much out there and I keep bumping into it, and all of the advertisments that come with each and every site. Did I mention, in my kingdom advertising is against the law? Now the new Harry Potter is out but I'm too cheap to buy it so I'll wait. I don't have alot of time for this blog thing, but now I'm told I need to look at everyone else's attempt. If I can't get through my own, when am I supposed to checkout yours? Can it really help me to see what you're doing? Does anyone care what I'm doing for that matter. If I'm too cheap to buy Harry, that I'm certain I will love, would I ever buy a MP thing that I don't even know how to use?
I'm thinking that by the time I get through the blog, I'll know what to do with the prise. Maybe by then I'll have the Harry book and I won't even care. Right now I have the new Clementine book. I think I may be hungup on children's literature. Okay, I've waisted enough time, I'll have to work on #7 tomorrow.

monkeys

monkeys
Originally uploaded by laughnerc9

Just the best part of the royal family- we are holding the kingdom's private security code box containing monkey secrets no other known culture possesses.

My latest adventure

This past weekend I went to a wedding for my royal nephew in the very hot and not so royal feeling kingdom known as Florida. The wedding itself was lovely, the reception went off without a hitch and was equally as lovely. But everything in my wannabe royal world did not go without a hitch.
My first error in judgement was to take 6 members of the royal family with me, the second error was to allow a commoner to join our party and share our royal rented wheels.
1st lesson learned:
Common folk do not follow commands and repeatedly cause dysfunctional behavior among the royals. This commoner ,while looking normal was not,upon closer examination she may have been a peasant in fine attire. She was always late for appearances and stayed way too late at the ball which was a cause for much concern and apologies to be extended by myself on behalf of the royal kingdom.
2nd lesson learned:
Patience is a much needed virtue. The royal family was as polite as would be expected but patience was wearing dangerously thin for most of our weekend and a good time was not had by all.

Happy belated 4th. I've been very busy, yesterday I typed an entire entry for my blog and when I tried to add a picture the whole thing went kapooie, old dog no trick for that day.
Today I will try again, tenacity is my new virtue. I have been really out- doing myself ever since Evillibrarian talked me into this whole blog thing. 1st she put a spell over me and convinced me that as a wannabe princess I needed the MP thing. I don't know what it's going to do for me, but I want it . I told the royal husband what I was up to and he not only knew what I was talking about, he issued warnings to me. Thanks to Evillibrarian's tutelage I faked my way through that conversation with colors flying. Perhaps a little overconfident , I bragged to my children about the blogging and the MP thing . Again, to my surprise they all knew what I was talking about and all tried to win my favor for the MP thing. I'm now convinced I can't live totally without this MP thing, I plan to finish my 23 tasks and find out more information about the MP thing, or at least find out how big it is.
Do you think I can carry it with me? Can I hide it in my tiara so no one can steal it? Do you think Evillibrarian will cast a spell over me and use the MP thing's army to take over the rule of my kingdom?

Heron

Heron
Originally uploaded by Eekers!

This is a sight similar to what I saw yesterday morning while enjoying my morning coffee on the back patio.

The huge bird actually flew onto my neighbor's roof and stared at my small pond for a good 30 minutes.

I live very near to a park with a natural water feature that is host to many ducks, geese, herons, and other critters that you may not see a mile north of the center of the city.

The scary part of this sight for me, other than at first I thought it was a giant hawk coming to wreak vengeance of some horrible calliper upon my naturally frizzy red hair, was that last year I lost 9 fish from my pond that I nurtured and named and really enjoyed watching.

Now the real reason I stole this picture from Eekers- I want my husband to see it because he doesn't believe that a heron would stand on a roof.

By the by- we put a huge net over the pond this year and I haven't lost a fish yet.

P P 1st Post

old dog new doggie tricks
just saving the page until I can find an original thought to post

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