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Library Woes

2009-07-31T16:49:00.002-04:00

Hey, Y'all,
Well, the governor has cut funds to the library, and the library board has made their decisions...and did a masterful job, I think. No Sunday hours except at the Main Library, Closing early every night, Full time is down from 40 hrs to 36 hrs and part timers from 20 to 18 hrs, Less money spent for new material, no new hires, even if people quit. Nothing there is great, but at least no branch has to close and no employee has lost their job. Better yet, our benefits have stayed the same. I can live with that. I will have to adjust my budget, and tighten my belt, but I am not so bad off. No credit-card debt, no mortgage, and I have some savings. Yep, all-in-all, not so very bad. I just hope that the governor realizes what great libraries Ohio has. So many may just have to close their doors...

JB

facebook

2009-05-19T17:25:00.002-04:00

Hey Y'all,
I have found a friend that I haven't seen or heard from in about 33 years! Teresa and I were best of friends for years, until her family moved away. We did still keep in touch for a while, but then just fell out of touch. It is wonderful, how Facebook has brought people together again. I have several "friends" that were friends many years ago. I just love it. If only my son wouldn't keep telling me that "Facebook is the Devil!" He keeps telling me not to mention addresses, phone numbers, or when I am going on vacation, etc. Granted, he is a policeman, but does he really think that I am that stupid? I am the one who doesn't even put a picture of myself on any computer website! I have never trusted the ether out there. Anyway, I love facebook, despite all that.
JB

2009-04-28T12:01:00.002-04:00

Hey, y'all,
I have really come into my own on the computer! I am now on facebook! Although I haven't found a good enough picture, yet. I have "found" a couple of old friends, a couple of cousins, and several people from work, so far. It is kind of fun, although I can't get on as often as I would like. Just on a break or lunch hour. (I am still not on line at home.)
JB
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Spring Break

2009-04-10T10:50:00.002-04:00

Hey Y'all,
My grandson has been on spring break this week. He is spending it @ Grandpa's in Washington DC. How many 5 year olds get to go so far away on spring break? (Well, it's not Cancun, but he IS only 5). I am taking my spring break next week. Not in the same way as Alex, though. I have a couple of Dr. appointments, a fridge to clean before something grows legs in back, and an apartment that is in dire need of a dust cloth and a vaccuum. Ah, the joys of spring cleaning! My cat will love me for staying at home, but when she sees that vaccuum come out, I may not see her for hours. She cannot stand that vaccuum!
JB

2009-03-24T12:27:00.002-04:00

Sometimes you marvel at the stupidity of people. The ones who run a red light, then flip YOU the bird because you almost hit them. The ones who cannot understand why they have to at least get a GED before they homeschool their children. And the ones who think that what they were taught in history class in school is the truth! Doesn't anyone read real history books anymore? Does no one even think about the fact that history is written by the "winner" of any conflict? I love the fact that I when I was talking about the "Puritans" hanging Quakers, I was informed of the fact that "That didn't happen." Seemingly, the colonial court records are all wrong, because the schoolbooks state that the puritans came over so America could have religious freedom for all. Hello...they came so that THEY could have that freedom, not so anyone else could! I just want to say...go read a book!
JB

Week off

2009-03-13T10:20:00.002-04:00

Hey Y'all
I have next week off!!!!! I am very happy about that, although I haven't any real plans. I may spend the last part of the week in WV, visiting family. I haven't been down for a while. I would like to do some research (genealogy) down there, but will probably need more than a couple of days for that. I may just stay at home and do as little as possible. I only hope that the week goes very slowly.
JB

Keeping up or at least not so far behind

2009-03-09T13:08:00.003-04:00

Hey y'all, I have surely started to keep up with the times...I am now on facebook. My son-in-law talked me into it, and truth is, I am having a good time with it. I have re-connected with a couple of ex-school mates, a couple of cousins, etc. Not too bad for someone who is usually pretty old fashioned! (I don't even have cable TV! I use rabbit ears!)
http://www.facebook.com/home.php? is my page at facebook.

Julia

Good reading

2009-02-24T10:41:00.002-05:00

Hey, y'all
I've been reading a lot lately. Re-reading, actually. Years ago I read all of M.C. Beaton's Hamish MacBeth mysteries. When I realized how many more there are now, I decided to re-read all of the old ones again, before I take on the new. I had forgotten how much fun they were! Not something very deep, understand, but very entertaining. Perfect for a winter evening! Listening to Saffire and reading a good mystery. All anyone needs.
JB

Almost Spring...I thought

2009-02-19T16:22:00.002-05:00

Hey Y'all,
We have had several days of fairly mild weather this passed week. It has been very nice. However, today we woke up to 20 degree weather with snow flurries and lots of wind. Horrid! All my hopes were dashed! Oh, well. We have had several "strange" and "odd" people frequenting the library lately. I cannot and will not go into detail, of course, but I think that cabin fever and the winter blues have been making the rounds. WE NEED SPRING!
JB

Being grown-up

2009-01-26T15:33:00.004-05:00

Hey, y'all,
This weekend was an exciting one for my grandson. He lost his first tooth Friday evening! He very seriously asked me if I knew what that meant. When I asked what, he replied "I am almost grown up!" And he meant it. He thinks that now that he has lost a baby tooth, and has "grown-up tools", and is in kindergarten, too, he must be almost grown up. I just told him not to hurry, because he will be a grown-up for a lot longer than he will be a boy. He wasn't impressed. Why do you spend 20 years wishing to be a grown-up, just to spend at least part of the next 60 wishing you were young again?
JB

2009-01-21T12:25:00.002-05:00

Hey y'all,
Yesterday was something else, wasn't it? Bush is (finally) out! The library had a tv set up so we and the patrons could watch the whole ceremony, and when it was done, the library patrons broke out in applause! We did NOT try to shush them. Everyone was very excited and smiling at everyone else, and there was an atmosphere of hope and happiness coming from almost everyone in the building. Nice.
I hope my grandson got to see it. He was so excited when Obama won. He DID tell me that he was for Obama because he liked to say his name, but then he is 5 years old. His big deal this weekend was to teach Grandma wii games. Well, here is to the next 4 years!
JB

EEEEEK!!!

2009-01-16T11:14:00.002-05:00

Hey, y'all,
Well, the week progressed, and the temp today when I left for work was -10 degrees. Wind chill was -25. F not C. COLD!!! All those complaints about hot weather, cost of living, bugs and hurricanes from my last blog are beginning to seem minor. Very minor. The high today is supposed to climb all the way to 5 degrees! At least I don't live in Fargo, ND. I think that I heard that it was -35 there. Before the wind chill was factored in! Baby, it's cold outside!
JB

Winter

2009-01-13T10:28:00.002-05:00

Hey Y'all,
I HATE WINTER!!! It is altogether too cold, and is to get colder as this week progresses. Days like these I just want to move to a tropical island somewhere. Of course, I would probably just complain about the heat, then. Maybe somewhere like northern California...but then I would complain about the cost of living. How about Texas? Nah...bugs there are huge. Florida? Hurricanes. Oh, well. Maybe I should just put on an extra layer and tough it out. After all, my grandson lives here. How on earth could I leave him? Cold or not, I seem to be in Ohio to stay. But why does cold weather seem so much colder at 56 than at 10?:)
JB

2009-01-02T16:55:00.002-05:00

Hey y'all,
Just a few days after I posted the video of Earth Kitt, she died. On Christmas Day, as a matter of fact. At the age of 81. I think she would have probably planned it that way, had she the chance to. Anyone who could sing that song so well, and then break up laughing at the end had to have a good sense of humor.

Santa Baby

2008-12-18T17:25:00.004-05:00

This video is one of my favorites...Eartha Kitt is 79 years old here! Would that I had legs like that! At ANY age! She was born January, 1927. This was at the 2006 DC Christmas concert. So she was really closer to 80 than not!
JB

Great Read!!!

2008-12-15T13:21:00.002-05:00

Hey y'all,
I just read a wonderful children's book, and was very impressed. This is the author's first book, and she did a marvelous job. Part adventure, part fantasy, the children in the story were believable. Bad moods, arguing with siblings, wishing they were part of a different family, etc. The author made the story real, even as she incorporated giants, mermaids and flesh eating plants. I cannot wait for part two. The book is "The Lost Island of Tamarind" by Nadia Aguiar. I recommend it to all!
JB

Snowy Weekend

2008-12-08T18:04:00.002-05:00

Hey Y'all,
Saturday mid-morning, I looked at the snow coming down and decided that I was not going to do anything. And so I went nowhere, and did almost nothing. Alex came over Saturday evening, and spent the night, and we read, watched a movie (cartoon) and did a jigsaw puzzle. Sunday I did laundry, dishes (yes, I left the dished in the sink Saturday night GASP...HORROR!!!) and straightened up after Alex went home. This is the sum total of my boring weekend. I loved it.
JB

2008-12-04T16:33:00.003-05:00

Hey y'all,
Last night I babysat for a couple of hours for my grandson. When it was time for bed, I asked if he wanted me to read to him, or him read to me. HE read ME a bedtime story. And very well, I might add. No, I am not stretching things a bit because I am Grandma. The child is 5 and reads at about a 2nd-3rd grade level. Told you guys he was perfect! And he went straight to bed when reading time was over! Sometimes I really marvel at how great my daughter and son-in-law are at parenting.
JB

Thanksgiving

2008-11-29T15:09:00.002-05:00

Hey y'all,
We had a good old fashioned family Thanksgiving on Thursday. We had my Mother, 2 out of three of my brothers, my daughter and one of my sons, as well as my son-in-law, a couple of single guys who are friends of my kids and, of course, the main person at all of our get-togethers...my grandson. The food was great, the conversation was great, and the company was great. My daughter, who is a fantastic cook, did most of the dinner. I contributed some, and my son (who bakes like a dream) brought pies and cheesecake. Yumm! Hope everyone else out there has had a wonderful holiday!
JB

10 random things about me

2008-11-26T09:39:00.004-05:00

1. I was once friends with the daughter of a circus promoter...I hung out with acrobats, clowns, etc.
2. I was great in English and History...not so much in Math and Chemistry.
3. I have the genealogy tree for my father's branch back to the middle ages.
4. I used to play piano, flute, and piccolo.
5. I was the ultimate tom-boy as a kid.
6. I can tat. (Don't say "What??" You work in a library! Look it up!)
7. I hate to fly.
8. I WILL fly...to England someday!! My lifelong dream.
9. My great-great grandfather was a moonshiner.
10. I was the #1 premier hide and seek player of my neighborhood when I was a kid.

JB

2008-11-21T15:23:00.002-05:00

Hey y'all,
Saw this and rolled with laughter. A little late, considering the election was a couple of weeks ago but...

2008-11-21T09:43:00.003-05:00

Hey Y'all
Tonight is the Library's "milestone" dinner...for those of us who have been working here FOREVER. I have been invited for my 20 yr mark. Twenty years! My daughter was in the third grade when I started working here. Her son is in kindergarten this year! My oldest son was 15. He will be 36 in two weeks. Sometimes I forget, and think I must be about 36. Then I realize that I can remember Sputnik, and Eisenhower. Not quite as young as 36. Oh, well. Better than the alternative!
JB

WINTER (Burrrrrrr)

2008-11-18T15:09:00.003-05:00

Hey y'all,
Autumn one week and WINTER (ugh, burrrrr) the next! Snow before Thanksgiving! I am not a happy camper. Sometimes I wish I could move south. My youngest son did that. He and his wife now live in the south, and it is because of the winters. He hates cold weather more than I do...and that is saying a lot. I only hope that we get a bit of indian summer around Thanksgiving, as a lot of my family are coming up for it, and I know my mother...even a hint of bad weather and she will NOT come. I could understand if she had to drive it herself, but my brother will be driving her. As most people who learn to drive in WV, he is a good winter driver. We learn not only on snow and ice, but on mountain roads...narrow, twisted, slick roads, with guard rails only on the worst curves. You learn quick. Or not...;)
JB

Autumn

2008-11-13T14:29:00.002-05:00

Well, Autumn is really here. Most of the trees are becoming brown and/or bare. I love Autumn, except for the fact that it precedes WINTER!!(UGH, BURRRRRRR). I am not a cold weather person. But to walk on a cool (not cold) day in the fall with crunchy leaves underfoot...that is bliss! I have always loved that. I grew up as a country girl, from a WV "Holler" with hills and forests and creeks all around. I do miss walking in those woods in the fall. Sometimes there would be over a foot of leaves on the ground. Fun.
JB

MISTAKES!!!

2008-11-10T15:46:00.002-05:00

Hey y'all,
I am SOOO glad that I decided to go through the Track My Progress to make sure all the links were right!!! I keep finding mistakes! This is about the Flickr mashups and tools. The two I liked best were FlickrFly and FlickerFont. The montagr was fun, too. I hope this is my last "catchup" blog. Every time I think I am done, I find I am not!
JB

2008-11-10T13:10:00.002-05:00

Hey, Y'all
I have just realized that I have missed one...Find a few library related blogs/news feeds. I hope that a late entry will count, because I am not sure how that happened. Anyway... I did find a couple of feeds...the Shifted Librarian, Unshelved, Resource shelf, etc. But my favorite wasn't a library one...but Shorpy's Photo Archives. Loads of fun, there.
JB

Day After

2008-11-05T11:21:00.002-05:00

Hey y'all,
Well, what an exciting election day. All those voters turning out, all those peaceful (but loud) rallies, and the great speeches, both McCain's and Obama's.
Historic. I don't think that I have ever seen such excitement over an election in my life, and believe me, I even remember when Kennedy was elected! This was just amazing. As early as I got up yesterday, I still stayed up until Obama had finished with his speech! I am one tired puppy. I don't regret it, though. That was one great election.
JB

Voting

2008-11-04T13:42:00.003-05:00

Hey, y'all
It is election day. I got up extra (EXTRA!!) early, went to the poll extra early, stood around in the cold dark morning air, and then stood in a hallway for another few minutes, and then(TA DA!)voted. No, I am not going to try to influence voters to vote one way or the other. Nor will I tell you which way I voted. What I will tell you is the same thing my father said to me. "If you don't vote, then you don't complain." If you chose to sleep in instead of voting, you forfeit the right to complain. You have also cheated yourself out of one of the most important freedoms we have...having your own say. Don't take it for granted. My father voted in every single election from 1941-2007. He complained, too. But he had the right. And so do you, IF YOU VOTE!
jb

Halloween

2008-11-01T11:34:00.003-04:00

Hey, y'all
Yesterday was halloween. I went trick or treating with my grandson. Well, I stood on the sidewalk and reminded him to say "thank you" each time. Also along were my daughter, her friend, her friend's two daughters, my ex, and his wife. What fun. My daughter's husband stayed at home to pass out candy. While the three kids trick or treated, the rest of us tried to keep them polite and off of other people's grass. Not that other parents seemed to want their kids to be good. I even saw parents walking across other people's lawns with their kids. But ours were pretty good about it. All in all, a good evening, even if my ex was along.

JB

The End!

2008-10-29T15:01:00.002-04:00

Hey Y'all,
This is the 23rd thing...Blog about the whole experience. I have found lots of cool things, and fun things, and some not-so-grand things while doing our Learn and Play. I have learned a lot more about the net, and how to manage things on the net, some of which I will never do again, and some which will be used over and over. Maybe even my Blog! Anyway, this has been well worth my while, though some of it did drive me half way nuts! I "met" some interesting people, both from CML and from outside CML while doing the blogging. My little goal of making a viable blog has been met, and I now know that I am not too old to learn technology. I do wish to thank all who put us up to this, and kept us motivated, and helped us to get things right. It WAS fun.
JB.

Moldi

2008-10-29T13:02:00.004-04:00

Hey Y'all,
I have gone to MOLDI and I now have a book on my shelf, but cannot actually download it, as I have nothing to download it to. I think this site would be much better for people who like books on tape/cd. I do not. However, I may try again, if I ever get something to download on. I love the idea of them, for some. It was very simple to do, too.
JB.

?????????

2008-10-27T17:33:00.003-04:00

Hey y'all,
I have gotten to the point where I am actually asking "O.K. Where is the next task?"
I am all caught up, and nothing to do! Well, I can just ramble on here, I guess. I have much to do this evening and tomorrow, too. I am trying to finish my grandsons'
Halloween costume. He is to be a pirate. I am almost to the point where it is all the finishing touches. (read that as the hand stitching...yuck.) Alex is to be a pirate, his friend (female) is to be his pirate wench, and her little sister is a mermaid. The radio flyer is being turned into a pirate ship. Not by me, thank goodness. By his Dad. Well, Until we have another task, bu-bye.
JB.

Old Times

2008-10-23T12:28:00.000-04:00

Just found something on YouTube that I remember from many years ago. My father had this on a record, and we all laughed along with it every fall. Never let it be said that I don't like football.
jb.

Podcasts

2008-10-22T10:32:00.003-04:00

Hey, y'all,
I went through a lot of podcasts in the last few days, and didn't find much of interest. However, I did find the podcasts of Babblebooks. That was nice, if you like to listen to books read to you. I don't happen to enjoy it much, but I know of several people who do. I will pass on the idea to them. Most of the podcasts seem to be either advertising or one persons warped sense of (pick one) humor, politics, religion, music, or life in general. If I want to know something on a certain subject, I would rather read a book by an actual expert on said subject. I suppose the library could do weekly podcasts to inform the patrons what events are coming up in that week, or to inform the staff of the same type of thing. Truth to tell, I don't know what the difference is between podcasts and YouTube (other than video), except that YouTube seems to be of better quality stuff, on the whole. //www.babblebooks.com/shopping/shoppodcasts.asp

tubin 2

2008-10-20T19:53:00.002-04:00

Yep, I did find some Frank Hutchison. Of course, it wasn't a video of him, as he was recording in 1925 or so! But his Stackalee is on YouTube! And this one, about the mine wars in WV in 1920. I am impressed! He was a coal miner in WV, who played the slide guitar and sang real "hill music." So...YouTube does have everything! I wonder what it will take to fool YouTube?
JB.

TUBING!

2008-10-20T15:46:00.000-04:00

Hey, Y'all,
I have found YouTube to be a great place for finding things you didn't think even existed! I found several videos of Karen Dalton singing. This is a blues singer from the early sixties Greenwich Village era. She is almost unheard of, and yet there she is on YouTube. Pretty good for someone who has been dead for quite some time.
I cannot wait to find some other "Oldies and Goodies" on YouTube. Maybe find some Frank Hutchison! Who knows what is possible.
JB.

FUN-FUN! #19

2008-10-16T12:40:00.000-04:00

Hey y'all,
This time I really found something FUN! I found the link to Make, and spent some time just looking around in there. It was a blast! I am not clever enough to actually contribute to this site, but I sure can look and marvel...How people even think up some of this is amazing to me. Some of the Halloween stuff is down-right sick...but fun. Guess that makes me sick, too!
JB

Backpack (#18)

2008-10-14T17:12:00.000-04:00

Hey, y'all,
I looked at backpack, and I really liked to way it is set up, and loved the calendar! With a different color for each person in the office or family. I think that it could be good for a family with several kids who all do the activity thing...ballet, soccer, riding, etc. It could work for a small office, too. I also liked the writeboard. Good to get a message to everyone. I don't think that the library could use it per se, but different groups within the system might want to look into this. A whole bulletin board on line.
JB

Online productivity

2008-10-06T17:04:00.000-04:00

Hey Y'all,
I went into Google docs and created a little document. I like the idea of being able to have several people at different branches pulling a document together and editing it, etc. It can be hard to get a committee together often enough to do that, I think. One of the ways (besides the one just mentioned) I can see using this is with the spreadsheets. Do the money report on the website, then have Jean Bowling as the person to see it. No more printing it off, sending it to her, etc. Great way to do the money. Still haven't figured out about the other paperwork that goes with the money report, though. One step at a time. It would also work with the stats, too. We "edit" it every day, and at the end of the month, whomever does stats just pulls it up.
This whole thing seems a good idea, except for my constant worry about security. How secure is this? Can ONLY the people registered as readers see it? How sure can we be about that? Well, this is one of the things that I always worry about. I don't usually buy things online, either. Just don't trust the great "Out-there."

JB

2008-09-30T16:40:00.000-04:00

Hey y'all,
This is our "catch-up" week, and I was caught up before the week began! This week I am just going back over some of the sites we have explored, to see what I may have missed (a lot, it seems). Now that we have the extra time, maybe I won't feel so pressured to get it done and go on to the next one. Maybe we can REALLY explore these sites. I am having fun with the generators, now. I didn't when we were on that, because I had so much trouble getting one onto my blog. Now I can just play...which is part of the whole thing. I am glad we have the extra time. Thanks for that. I must once again thank Markbookmark, because he has helped me so much with this whole exercise. What would we older workers do without the younger ones to help?
JB

Caught up!

2008-09-26T15:52:00.000-04:00

Hey y'all,
I am all caught up! At least to date. #16 is done. I hope. Of course, there is a great chance that some of my stuff is wrong. I will not pretend to understand some of this, even if I did get it done. But I am pleased not to be 3 or 4 things behind, as I usually am. I have enjoyed reading over the favorites, although I have no idea who or what some of the favorite things are. The TV shows, for instance. Some of them I have never heard of. And the sports figure that is listed. And most of the websites. Nope, never heard of. And before anyone says it, yes, I know I am an old (and old-fashioned) lady. But I can say, most of this journey so far has been interesting. By-the-way, is the last lesson about how to close down and take your name off of the sites that we are not interested in keeping up on?
JB

2008-09-25T16:18:00.000-04:00

Hey y'all,
OK, I have finally been able to put my blog on the cml wiki. And it only took 4 days! I like the idea of this, but the doing of it was not my idea of fun. It should have been so much easier to do.
I have also added favorites to a few of the other "favorite" things.
JB

2008-09-23T16:40:00.000-04:00

Hey Y'all,
I enjoyed looking at the wikis, especially the "book lovers wiki." This is the type of thing that I can see as a library wiki for us. Patrons recommending books to other patrons. A wiki like that may even encourage patrons to pick up a book instead of a dvd...or at least pick up a book with their dvds. There could even be a separate one for kids to review j books. And why not a third for teens? Lots of people only read when something is recommended to them. They don't browse. This is another way to get that recommendation. Another application would be for the various committees to each have their own wiki, especially if members of that committee are scattered around different branches.
JB

Library 2.0

2008-09-23T12:40:00.000-04:00

Hey Y'all,
I just read several of the articles on library 2.0 and can see that it will be great for the patrons to be able to help us to help them. I like that it can connect LOTS of libraries is different systems, too. Great for exchange of ideas and info. My problem is being able to keep up with it. I feel as though my head is stuffed full and leaking out my ears, already!! If I can't get it settled in my head, I will be one of those "too old to adapt" types. I hate to think that! Most of the sites that Learn & Play has sent us to is appropriate for library work, and most are fun, too. (except Twitter, which I still think is for TWITS!) At least I can see how helpful this will be, even if I don't understand a lot of it, yet.
JB

delicious

2008-09-22T17:48:00.000-04:00

Hey y'all,
One of my co-workers explained more about delicious, (thanx, Mark) and I think that it could be a very helpful type of website, were I on the web at home. I started to have some fun with it, though, and maybe will get into it more at my kids house when granny babysits.

JB

2008-09-20T15:07:00.000-04:00

hey y'all,
I changed the picture on my blog from the knight in shining armor to a flower and bee. No one could figure out what the knight was. It lost something when it got so small. I left the site to the knight on one of my earlier blogs, so anyone who wants to see a really good knight, just click on that. Actually, you can't really see the bee in the new picture. Oh well. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubherducky/43069157/ is the site for the new picture.
JB

delicious?

2008-09-17T17:22:00.000-04:00

ok, y'all
I have just signed up for Delicious, and pulled a couple of websites onto it, but I am still not so sure what it is all about. It seems to be a lot like Blogline, only websites, not blogs. I am not so sure that this is a site that I will stick with. But interesting enough, and maybe if I have time to do more exploring on it, it will appeal more.
JB

2008-09-17T15:24:00.000-04:00

Hey y'all,
The Twitter thing was easy enough, although it seems pretty silly to me. I have no interest in the fact that someone is having coffee right now, or changing a lightbulb or whatever. Not one of my favorite exercises for Learn and Play.
JB

2008-09-17T11:35:00.000-04:00

Hey y'all,
I like the Library Thing. It is a great website. The idea of putting a list of your favorite books up, then having other people recommend similar books is just great! I have already ordered a book that was recommended. THIS site I will go back to, even after this learn and play thing is done. Thanks for showing us this.
JB

2008-09-16T12:40:00.002-04:00

Hey y'all,
This storm really showed us what technology can and cannot do, didn't it? I ended up as the "go to" person in my apartment building. Most of the tenents are under 30, and seem to be so dependant on technology, that when the electricity went out, they were lost babies! I spent half of Sunday evening passing out candles, showing them how to setup and light an oil lamp without it smoking them out, and how to light a gas stove that has an electric starter. Actually, I had to help that girl cook her dinner, too, as she never used the stove at all...only the microwave. Fun.
Anyway, it seems to me we ought to try to remember the "older" ways more, and pass that along to the younger generations, as well as the Tech stuff. Sometimes technology is not going to help.
JB

2008-09-10T12:31:00.000-04:00

Hey y'all,
I actually got a title and some pictures up!!! And it worked fine! Yea Me! The title I made on the generator blog http://www.glassgiant.com/hollywood_sign/, and the pics were my own. Sometimes this Play and Learn stuff is great, and sometimes it is soooo bad. I just know that some of mine is all wrong, but I will keep plugging away. I have actually learned some, and had some fun. Of course, when I get confused about something, don't even ask!
JB

NOOOOOOO!

2008-09-03T17:35:00.000-04:00

Hey y'all,
I take it back about the play and learn stuff being not so bad. It is soooo confusing! And our computers are so slow, that the one or two hours off the desk is not enough to do it. I spent over 20 minutes just getting the e-mail address verified to use the Blogline today! And I still don't get how to attach my blog to it, or it to my blog or whatever we are supposed to do. (I don't get THAT, either.)
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jb

2008-09-02T13:45:00.000-04:00

Hey y'all,
Lookie! I actually got a picture to attach to my blog. I am so proud. It is one I found on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubherducky/238844362/in/set-72157594276907350/. After all, everyone loves a Knight in shining armor. Not to worry, I have asked permission of the photographer. This Learn and Play stuff may not be so bad!
JB

2008-08-30T10:57:00.000-04:00

Well, I have just watched the little video that Joy and Gerald did, and realized that I have been doing this all wrong! As I have pointed out before, I am not very "up" on computers and the internet. Now I have to go back and redo some of my things. Oh well.
JB

Am I a techie or not?

2008-08-28T14:41:00.000-04:00

Hey, y'all,
We are to write something about tech that we like, or are interested in, etc. I am at a loss as to what to write about. I am one of the old school computer people. I have a few programs on mine, but I am not even on-line. So...I download my pictures, I keep music on it, my genealogy records, and a few games. (yes, the old style games that you can play without being on the internet and that you play against yourself, not total strangers out "there"). Does this make me hopelessly old-fashioned, technology challenged, or just lazy when it comes to "keeping up with the techs?" Who knows? But it leaves me without much to write about. I did enjoy going into Flickr and playing around there. My daughter has some pictures on there, and so do a couple of friends, but I had never looked at the other "stuff." Very cool. I have not had time to look at all the blogs, but I love the name of some of them. "Come lay your bones on the alabaster stones" comes to mind. That is a great one. Especially to someone interested in genealogy and history!

First time for everything!

2008-08-13T17:49:00.000-04:00

Hey, y'all!
I think that it is great for the library to encourage us to "Play and Learn." However, my big goal now is just to actually make a blog. I have never done this. All I can do on the computer is what I need for circulation. Hopefully, I have now met this goal.
JB