trading card

trading card
Originally uploaded by mlrsbmn

Okay--cruised through things 4, 5, and 6.
With all of the final fussing necessary to create actual cards, posters, puzzles, cubes, etc (i.e. the paper and printers that aren't readily available), I can't see using much of this flexibly in a library setting--but who knows, maybe I'm selling our printers short.

My creation

My creation
Originally uploaded by mlrsbmn

I really am scraping the bottom of the picture barrel. Can you tell what I have been focusing on at the library lately?
I wanted to upload a spelled out creation but couldn't figure it out so I chose this easier option.
I don't think it will become a motivational poster.

Thing 4--trying to get somewhere

I'm plugging along--my family is out tonight, so I'm trying to move along on this. Flickr was easy--I'll probably do more of this on my own. I'd like to dig deeper. For now, though, I'm going to consider thing 4 done and move forward while I have the time.
I don't want to disgrace myself on inservice day by being the only one who started this in the spring who hasn't moved beyond 5.

Eureka_garden

Eureka_garden
Originally uploaded by mlrsbmn

Spring break 2007--early April in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Seemed like heaven to a MInnesota family. I need to upload more recent photos to this computer. Most are on the home laptop--maybe I'll work off of that next time, although I hate the keyboard.

Long absence

I'm back--graduation is over (I had no idea how all-consuming that is in the midwest--be warned those of you with teens) but life is no less busy as I prod my daughter toward her driver's license, hold my son back from his and search for extra long sheets and other absolutely necessary college dorm room items ("Mom--everyone gets one of those egg carton things for their mattresses--otherwise it is really uncomfortable.") I'm reentering the 23 things world by going backwards to step 3 and adding new feeds to my bloglines. I'm adding the feed from www.saintpaulitics.org to see if this St. Paul Public website is as good a contribution to civic engagement as it seems. I'm sending myself e-mail with all of my various accounts and passwords established through this 23 thing process because every time I try to hook back in I have to dig through the memory bank to figure it all out. I won't label this any particular thing accomplishment, because I haven't moved on, but I will say I feel accomplished anyway just through remembering my passwords.

Monday morning

Hey--I actually went to check my feeds and found an article of enough interest to include a link off my blog (see the link to an article about Encyclopedia of Life). Perhaps I'll adjust my attitude toward this activity a notch toward the more positive side.

Thing 3

I've watched the rss presentation, set up a bloglines account and added several sites to my bloglines reader. A cursory look at what these feeds have to offer confirms my suspicions that I will not be spending too much time monitoring them. I think I'm sounding too curmudgeonly, but truly--I don't see this as a time-saving activity. Maybe I need to choose my feeds more carefully, but I'm not seeing anything of value yet.
You know, I'm always looking at the clock and in a hurry to move through my participation in the 23 things, because I can rarely find time to check in and keep it going. Since the very nature of such an exploration is that the more time spent noodling around, the more value received, I'm feeling frustrated. I am continuing on, though, because I guess I see even minimal participation is providing some value. Sigh. I want to be reading.