Getting Some Feeds

• This afternoon was time to start on Thing Number 9–find some useful library blogs. I’ve only begun, but I went through the first suggestion, library weblogs. I found that a lot are unfound or OLD posts, but I ended up subscribing to 7 more feeds, for a grand total of 15. This is ridiculous. I could spend my life reading other peoples’ lives…I’ve got better things to do. Like
• Spend time with the sheep.
• Just finished reading Robert Frost’s biography A Restless Spirit, the Vermont Humanities pick for Vermont Reads this year. I was in tears by the end, and couldn’t speak properly for a while. I remember him speaking at Kennedy’s Inauguration, and I didn’t know what a treasure that was. But I do remember.
• (I would like to know how I got into THIS way of writing things.)
• We’re probably not going to apply for a grant, although I was thinking we should have the book. Only to discover that it’s out of print. Maybe we will apply. But I can’t think of what we’d do. I’m out of ideas. Or overwhelmed. Or both.

I can hardly be overwhelmed. I’m going back to work tomorrow after a three-month leave of absence. My goal during this period of convalescence was to read the entire works of Alexandre Dumas. I got through 7 or 8, and I’m just about to finish La Dame de Monsoreau–have been for a week now. (Now I seem to be back to THIS way of writing things.) I enjoyed them in te past, but I just wasn’t in an inspired place this time.

Makes me think about my old lady plan. When I can’t walk any more, my plan is to write children’s historical fiction. Then, when I can’t even do that, my plan is to reread all my favorite authors. Jane Austen, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, dare I say Thomas Hardy. There’re so many more, Wilkie Collins is one I’ve always wanted to persue. Well, after this experience, I may be too busy. So, when do I get to reread?

I think that the roast may soon be ready.

RSS and All That Jazz

After reading about all the different readers, I found one that uses the same login name as this blog does. I thought that was a good idea, since logins and passwords are some of my biggest problems. How DO you remember them if you DON’T write them down?

Last night I wanted to add a new book to our bookblog, and it took forever to figure out how to find, then get in to that account. So, the same password on the same account sounds good. Good idea to have bookmarks in the future.

At the same time, I was trying to open the pubyac files to see a Seuss program someone had posted. I don’t exactly know how, but I found it. All this technology is confusing, and …exciting. When I tried to use the rss reader, I was going around in circles with pubyac and google and yahoo and yadayada.

I guess it must be time to get some real life, and go feed the sheep. Today is my first full day back feeding the sheep since November! They were really pushing me around, trying to get the hay. Especially Hazel.

So, I now have google reader, and signed up for the FUN package. Watched a few films, read a few quotes. Signed up for a few blogs. Looks like a lot to attach me to the computer. One thing I was thinking was that I could keep a journal on my Sheep Farm web page. It could somehow go with the Cycle of the Year page.

How would I use RSS feeds in the library world? I expect that I might eventually get to be good enough to show patrons how to do it, especially since they can’t put bookmarks or save things on our computers. I’ll have to think about this. And it’s time to go find other thing 8 comments. Right?