Childhood memories

When I was a kid my parents used to take us to the Canadian Gulf Islands for a couple of weeks in the summer on a small sailboat. I thought I'd see if I could find any pictures of familiar places on Flickr so I typed in Portland Island. Portland is one of the smaller islands and also one of my favorites.
Snorri Gunnarson is a photographer who has covered some of the same ground I did as a kid. He has beautiful pictures of Portland Island, Barkley sound, Victoria and more on his Flickr page. I really enjoyed reliving some of that time through his pictures.

Really Simple?

It is fairly simple to subscribe to all these great sites. The great difficulty? Who has time to sit at the computer and keep up on reading all these things. It will cut into the time I have to sit in the yard eating dirt with this funny fellow.

I've got NPR and the New York Times Education site added to my subscriptions, as well as the Homer Library site from Matt's presentation. I will probably make time to read anything new on my fellow KRL bloggers' pages first, however. Other people are making their blogs really fun.

On to the next week. If it stays cold outside maybe I will catch up with the program!

delicious

I have my delicious bookmark set up finally. The first time I did it seemed to work great for a day or two. A week later though I logged in and it was gone. I'm not quite sure what I did. This time it seems to be working better. I have Abebooks and Barnes and Noble sites saved as bookreference. This is for those times a patron is certain they have the title accurate for a book they want but we don't have. I have KUOW posted for updates on weather, storms, etc. We've had a few of those lately! It will be nice to access these favorites from work. I wish we could add the buttons onto the library computers. That would make things easier still.

Back to work

I took a couple weeks off. Now that the projects require me to work from my home computer its harder to make the time to do them. Free time at home is worth more than gold. Its hard to squeeze anything extra in. Hopefully I will have a "delicious" posting in a couple days.

For library 2pt0 I read the article "43 things I might want to learn this year" and "20 reasons why learning emerging technology is part of every librarian's job". They were interesting and informative. This technology is really very user friendly.

Create your own reality: turn off your TV

All these technological things to play with online are great for slow times at work.

The computers were down the last two days apparently, so we spent this morning catching up. Now we're catching our breath. Technology is great but dangerous to get dependant on. I'm one of those crazy people who refuse to buy into something I don't really need. Therefore no cell phone, pda, etc. Life is much simpler without it.

Here's a list of low-cost, tech-free ways to enjoy life:

1. Bake something ( with chocolate preferrably).
2. Take your teenager for a long walk. They start talking to you after the first 1/2 mile, you might learn all kinds of things.
3. Sit at the beach and watch the waves come in.
4. The easiest of all--- Read a book.