Now all I need to do is figure out all the changes!

BTW, I added a new spam filter, as even good ol’ Akismet was allowing too much spam thru, and I logged on one day to find over 1,500 spam comments that I needed to delete. So if your comment got lost, let me know.

My grandmother taught me to crochet, and I did quite a bit of it when I was younger.

Now I do it once at year, as part of my company’s annual day of service (too hard to do it at home…it drives the cats crazy!).

These squares will be combined with those of my fellow crocheters and knitters and submitted to Warm Up America, where they will be stitched together to make afghans for those in need.

This follows a semi-recent foray into Facebook, which has been spreading like crazy where I work. So after a few weeks of paying a bit of attention to what my co-workers are watching and giving and doing (and having not so much success in finding older friends and school chums on Facebook because I’m such an old fart), I thought this article from Salon — on the darker side of carefully constructed lists of favorite books, music, and movies, etc. — worth a bookmark here.

And now that I’ve bitten the Facebook and Twitter bullets, looks like it may be time for another: the new iPhone!

One idea being tossed around as a way of dealing with [high gas prices] is the four-day workweek. Several states are considering it. Staggered work schedules would be necessary in order to keep government offices open five days a week, and some have suggested that would end up costing the taxpayers more money. It’s also an idea that may gain traction in the private sector. I, for one, think it’s a terrific idea.

Here’s my question to you: Would shifting to a four-day workweek be a good way to save fuel?

I don’t know about the fuel, but I sure would prefer a four-day workweek. Seems about right…work four days, spend one day doing the essentials (shopping, laundry, etc), and still have two days o’ weekend!

Like many siblings, these guys get along really well. Except when they are fighting like cats and dogs…or I guess that would be cats and cats!

Boy, as much as I liked some of the winners on our side of the pond (particularly the ladies: Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, and Jordan Sparks), their voices didn’t make me cry.

So there’s this kid this season. The Brits also had this guy last year who had the same kind of incredible voice:

Both videos are well worth watching in their entirety — for the stories as well as the songs.