I haven't done anything with this blog since April, but I did start a different, personal blog a couple weeks ago. Now I should go in and play around with the gadgets, avatar, lists, etc. That one has a specific purpose and I haven't done much with it except set it up and write a couple postings. I remember writing in my blog post for Thing 1 that I felt no compulsion to have a personal blog, to share my life online. I guess that's pretty clear evidence of how time and experiences change your perceptions about things!
So I did update this blog - new look, new avatar, new title. Looking through the avatar sites listed in the Thing 24 directions made me realize that a lot of the 2.0 stuff seems to be "use it or lose it." I need to re-familiarize myself with a lot of what I did last spring.
I read through many of the "Finding the Time" links in the More Things on a Stick instructions. And it seems to be consistent with much of life: everything is a tradeoff. To have enough time to do some thing, you have to give up the time to do something else. This should be nothing new to any of us!
Probably the things that I've enjoyed the most of the first 23 would be blogs - reading them - and Flickr. Flickr was a godsend when we were doing our big remodeling project, right in the middle of my 23 Thing odyssey. I've got hundreds of photos of the whole process up there. And I have continued to post photos for our summer programs and most recently for a Christmas tree sponsored by one of Duluth's sister cities and for various book displays around the Library. Blogs - I have way too many in my reader and should go in and weed out some that I am less interested in. But they're fun! My favorites are not work related (what a surprise!). I'll add some to a sidebar, but I do need to go and get some other work done.
