I still have trees!

I knew I was on the right street when I saw the clear cut of 40 acres across the street from me and the clearing to the west; what an impact from space. I could find the neighbors big buildings, but mine looked different. In the end, I realized I still have trees, so there isn't nearly as much of my junk to see. In fact, at first I thought it wasn't right because I couldn't see the shop. Turns out it was in the trees, you just had to look harder. I must admit, I could play with this one all day. It is not totally accurate, but it sure gets close. You just have to pay attention to the details, like did it put you on the wrong side of the road as it pinpointed where you were supposed to be.

It's me 45 years ago!

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Except for the hair...but I always wanted purple hair. It took a long time to do this; seems my imagination taste runs close to my real taste and it's just like shopping. I was never very much into the "In" thing and I still am not. Fun but I was surprised how conservative I was, even when I could be anything I wanted. Nice to know how to do it though.

Using free stuff just got better

Free always comes with some sort of "price". (I guess that's the little cynical part of me popping up.) In this case, I guess the "price" for me would be deciding which of these Online Applications to use. Wow, what a "price". Trying them out was a bit of a challenge for me, though. Like trying to surf the Internet, I never can come up with somewhere to start, something I'd like to know about when I'm starting out. Once I go on to something else, all sorts of things come to mind. I expect that if you know what you are looking for, what you need, you could go out there and find it.

This will be a good tool to share. There are people out there who don't have access to all the bells and whistles some computers provide. It would be a challenge to set yourself up with some of these various accounts; Flickr, blogs, online applications etc. and then try to manage everything on a public computer. You could do a documentary on how to take advantage of all the services offered for free over the Internet. It would be perfect for someone who wants to try and have less of an impact on the earth by sharing the resources of others.

The sharing part would be the trick. You wouldn't want to be like the resident hippie we once gave a ride to. He was part of the Love family that lived on the top of Queen Anne hill. He hitched a ride with us one fall evening when it was pouring down rain. Once in the shelter that our old VW bus afforded, he promptly started lecturing my Ronnie on the sins of driving cars. You'd want to avoid this attitude if you were going to try and manage your online life with all these free opportunities, but it would make a good tale if you could do this successfully. And you might get the benefits of the computers, without the pitfalls (like getting sucked into some game) that can arise when you use your own computer.

So far we have had exposure to some very neat things in this odyssey, some that I enthusiastically embrace. I tell myself I'm going to apply this one, then I go home and it is so much easier to just keep using the same old tried and true stuff. I sometimes wonder how people make the time to use all these different programs. I've finally decided that they just live lives that are different from mine, and they make different choices than I do. Sometimes, the more you do, the more time you seem to have. Perhaps that's how they do it. If you need to manage that time, there are lots of Online Applications that can help you do it.