Hey Missus

Are ya familiar with the work of the botanist/artist Wendy Walsh? Read Ireland has her book for $125. Awful pricey to me, but apparently worth the money. She's PD good.


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Making a Better You.... from Thomas

Second Life

I'm slowly but surely getting back to my old computer habits. We're all settled in in our new place and it's wonderful. Each morning I wake up with gratitude -- everything is so totally different here compared to the old place. We've been out much more...not only to shopping malls like before but rather to the ocean or just to watch the duck population at Lily Lake. We had a cold spell for a few days so there's much less open water now.

Last night I watched a show on a Canadian channel about the computer game Second Life. It was about how people had gotten affected by it... «cheated» on their spouses, divorced, re-married and so on.

It was quite amazing, listening to grown-ups, people who had been well-adjusted in society, openly talk on national TV about their experiences with this game. 

One Canadian woman had actually married her «virtual lover» -- a biker from Kansas. He was married in real life when they met online, but his real life wife finally couldn't take it anymore. 

I remember when Second Life came out. Uffling told Angharod and me about it and we both installed it but never figured out how to handle it. It didn't seem to agree with my computer either. Online games have never been my thing so even though I'm a 'computer person', and even met my 'significant other' online, I have a hard time understanding this. 

The show was pretty graphic so you got a good idea of what it was all about...how you created an avatar for yourself and then lived out all your fantasies. I just don't think I have enough imagination to do it. 

It seems that Microsoft have given up on Windows Vista and released a new operating system called Windows 7 in Beta. From what I read in news groups and such, most people seem to be really positive about it. I never had Vista...haven't even used a computer with Vista on it so I can't say anything about it personally but I haven't heard much good about it.  With its bad reputation I think it would have been hard for them to carry on with it, no matter how much they'd fixed it up.

Anyway, just thought I'd post a little «sign of life». It's a good thing to have this blog to keep up with one another. We're very happy here in Atlantic Canada...we love the apartment, the city with its friendly people and...the ocean! No matter what the weather conditions might be -- it's always there to watch and it has a soothing effect on the mind. 

Cheerio!

Rebekah /formerly Webby/

My FAVORITE Robbie Burns...

There are SO many versions of this lovely sad ballad...but I heard this one just tonight, and like it just fine