Ship Trip for 6 weeks

You will not see me in the Library from June 12 to July 16 because I will be on the container ship, H.Buss. Please click on link to see where I am going.
H. Buss to the West Coast of South America
I am leaving from Port Everglades about June 14th. The ship is a working ship which will be in each port 18-24 hours to load and unload the containers; I may or may not be able to disembark in any of those countries.
I began planning August 2007 for a January 2008 departure which sold out long before I came along. After nearly a year in the planning, list making beyond belief, shopping, seeking advice from people and travel books, getting medical clearance and a yellow fever shot, I have 3 suitcases packed.
You know where I am going, but I am often asked, Why? and, Won't you be bored? and, Aren't you afraid for your personal safety?" let me tell you, dear reader, why.
A life-long personal goal is to see the open, endless sea, to approach the land by boat, to see stars without city light pollution; also to experience in life what I have read about in dozens of books, seen on TV and movies, a discovery voyage with wild animals and birds, the mechanics of a large, working ship and sail the Panama Canal (twice). 35 days of doing what I want even if that means doing nothing but gazing at the horizon.

Facebook and my Summation

These 2 young men, Jean and Evener, are my favorite faces, my best friends, the people to whom I can give the keys to my house for 3 weeks and then I can walk away without a worry. They graduated from Boca High this past June, the first in their family to do so. They make me feel a lot of pride because maybe I helped them a little these past 5 years. Who do you think was the only one in the crowd who knew how to knot a tie?

Facebook will be great to keep up with the people at work, if they choose to reciprocate my request for facebook/friendship. Honestly I embrace the new technology and I will continue to mess around with it in the months to come.

Virtually and actually, the people who have an impact on my life day to day are fragile, delicate, easily upset and others are tough, resilient, unflappable. Am I the high strung queen? Am I ready to cope with face-to-face and virtual communications flawlessly, faultlessly, and fabulously?

I truly wonder whether facebook, flicker, blog, email, yadda yadda will ever give me a comparable warm fuzzy feeling that my old Ms Peru (20 year old calico street cat from Regjerings Gade, Charlotte Amalie, St.Thomas, USVI)gives me when I open the apartment door at night. Yeah, a type of companionship, maybe, but different.

Podcasting without Libraries

Wow, how frustrating can one exercise be?!! I used podcast.net and looked up many, many podcasts but they had no RSS feeds. Finally, at last, thank god, I found one on lung cancer patients breathing techniques. A real party. I am not fortunate enough to have lung cancer but I do breathe and have trouble doing so on occasion.

Youtube, I just love it

At first I thought Youtube was only about silliness; Watch this silent video on the tea drinking cat.


Then I found a 'usefullness' for it when I wanted to learn how to spin yarn.

Bad day for web sites

What happens if I don't like any of the award-winning sites for thing 18?
[Excuse me while I change my attitude and try again tomorrow.]

Zoho is a so so no go

Zoho is a mix of stuff I already know (superficially speaking) so why learn another thing that does not look as substantial? Also the templates are lousy, I looked for a dozen or so and found none.

The blue car is similar to mine, doppelganger? imposter? Cars can be like software, then, imitation is flattering but not the genuine article.
READ MY NEWLY UPDATED PROFILE MOST OF WHICH IS TRUE

I looked at the Book Lovers Wikipedia from Princeton and the Bull Run Public Library wiki also. The first showed short, nicely written book reviews divided by genre. I would use this as a collection guideline, I looked at non-fiction, as well as personally to see what other people are reading. The Bull Run Public Library had a great opening page: right off you could search their catalog, a logical first step, but the right-hand column and for several screens below it was quick and easy to find news, fun stuff, events etc. Very informative for many kinds of queries.
For the nsulibs wiki I added a favorites: Favorite Florida Short excursions.