Cracking down the dress code

Uh Oh!
NOPL Librarians had better watch out.
Dress code police are roaming the streets as hot weather and the added pressure of summer reading are pushing librarians to the fashion edge.

Filling in the cracks - progress

I've blogged and jogged

I've twittered with tweet

I've facebook friends

I'll never meet

I've RSS'd and streamed Tim's show

I've skyped to people

I barely know

I'm connected

(not rejected)

So....

9 things down

14 to go.

OMG A Crack in my achy breaky heart!

OMG!

I have never written that before but it seems appropriate.

I was just at Wegman's picking up Off and more onions for my trip to the woods. Checking out, I spotted THIS magazine cover!

Diane Boyd, "Princess of the periodicals", why didn't you tell me?

Just because I am not at Brewerton everyday you know you are suppose to keep me updated on the magazines!

Well, as Annie K. would say, "a picture is worth a thousand words".

Who cares that I can't take my computer with me? I will be reading about the boys of country all weekend...

Fire Crackers

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

I am going to the woods today.

This is a big thing for me as I do not like to be this far away from Target or my computer.

The cell phones do not work once we hit the camp road yet people live here year round through the Adirondack - Canadian border winter.

Other things work and technology has snowshoed its way in. I know that a few of the residents use skype to keep in touch during the long winter here (have you seen the movie "Frozen River"? This is that place!

So, Miss Fancy Nancy Librarian, I am looking forward to a skype lesson so that I can keep in touch with the very nice people that I have met here.

Maybe I can concentrate on the "essential facts of life" this weekend and shoot off a few firecrackers.

Happy, Happy Independence Day to all of us!

P.S. I will miss Tim singing "God Bless America" on CMT this weekend.

Bummer!

Falling through the cracks...again

Talk about being the last to know.

I found out on my facebook page that I was having guests for dinner!

I am not making excuses but there are just too many places to check now for possible communication: 2 email accounts, my facebook page, my cell phone, my son's cell phone (on occasion I give out his number by mistake), my work phone, my home answer machine, Sharepoint, my Google reader, Tim's homepage, and the 23 things blog. Have I left anything out?

There is also added pressure to check every electronic device to make sure we do not miss any important information.

I wonder: am I any better informed than my Mom was who had a shared (phone) party line in our old house? Family and friends would stop over to chat in "real time" and she seemed to be always in the loop.

Once I found out online that I was having guests, it was a great night of real conversation with my niece and her three delightful daughters who were visiting from Las Vegas.

So "thank you " technology gods for keeping me informed and bringing Kristin, Sophie, Ella and Gracie over to visit via their GPS.