Week 3,thing 7

Don't be put off by the frighteningly boring, pseudo-seussian title of this blog; with all respect to Dr. Seuss. I couldn't think of anything stunning and dramatic for another assignment blog title so week 3 thing 7 it is. I am supposed to "create a blog post about anything technology related"that interests me this week. Nothing really interested me but I was challenged. Most things technical challenge me. I prefer leaves and flowers,and sunlight and rain. The challenge was that setting up my own bloglines newsreader was apparently so easy that it was done by me and promptly forgotten about. This meant that I spent 45 minutes trying to set up my news reader account only to be "told" that I already had an account. I just couldn't understand it!
What the h- was going on? What was the problem? What was my problem? Suddenly that part of my brain that is covered with clouds and fog was lit by a vagrant light and i noticed the word "feeds" in the left hand corner of the bloglines page. I thought click there,and lo and behold there was a list of stuff that I instantly remembered having chosen for my own.
So this is my blog post on technology that I have to end too soon because work calleth and now I'm out.

Flickr Days

I discovered 2 artists today, Adeles in Ireland and Hinoun (?) in Spain. Their photographs hit my wonder spot. I love their work and am going to contact them for permission to post a few of their pictures on my blog that is once I discover how to do it. I also registered my blog yesterday and so think I'm moving right along at a quite fabulous pace.

Yesterday a friend of mine told me that my 2nd posting was boring . I can't help that it was boring. It was an assignment. I had to do it. It was retribution for the great party that I attended at my own house. the party was jammin', it had all the right ingredients; great food ,great drink, great music and great company. Old and young, youth and kiddies,cats and dogs and a big shade tree;although that didn't figure because the heavens poured rain. But no fear, we had a great time anyway,everyone did. As my daughters friend said in a text message from Chicago, I had too much fun. One has to pay for these times with mandatory assignments, onerous demands on ones time, and stuff. It's all good though there'll be another party or festival and my friend will be there with rings on her fingers and bells on her toes because she's that kind of girl. Alas' duty calls and i must venture forth from this self absorbed pastime, blogging,(I'm beginning to adore it) and go to work. And so I'm out!

Week 1,thing 2 ; 7&1/2 Habits

First, I never did manage to see or listen to the online tutorial; there seems to be a technical glitch of some kind . So I read some other posts and discovered HCPL's very own Library Looney's post about the selfsame tutorial. The difference being that she managed to break through the castle walls and find the transcript and/or the animated tutorial. Anyway, she was also kind enough to list the habits and and so I'm using her list to answer the questions.
The easiest habit for me is to " break out of the box" for learning. I have always been fiercely independent in the the way that I approach learning. I don't like 12 step programs, paths to success, or even 7&1/2 habits... I don't have contempt for those who write thus or who like the style,(my husband loves those kinds of things and has just finished reading Russell Simmons, "Do You!")it's just not the way I like to learn. I learn from books and conversation with all kinds of people both tutored and untutored.
Using technology to my own advantage is the hardest thing for me learn. It is just so easy for me ask one of my sons to rig our computer at home or to set up the new television or to get a friend to burn that cd I like. I'm not afraid of technology but I don't find it that interesting as a thing in itself. In spite of my lack of a vital interest in technology as a thing, I have set myself to learn how to use the various tecnological tools that will be coming my way through the "23 things"

Test Post

This is my first blog attempt and I want it to be witty and telling but it will not be anything of the kind because it is that trying thing, a first public writing before ones peers. How should I go
on? First, I am a reader. Second,I am a buyer of books; I own thousands and I have to have them. I won't do without them. I sold one library so my husband could go to Law School and then after finishing he decided he didn't want to practice law... oh well the second library is bigger and better than the first and I won't do without it, I cannot; except to feed my children,or feed the poor,or if God required it... I love books and since this is a library blog what could be more appropriate.
I also love perfume almost as much as books but that is another story.