It's News to Me

My friend Jane Hascall's husband Benny, who is only 60, suffered a stroke on December 6th. Fortunately he is recovering at one of Colorado's finest rehab facilities, the Craig Rehabilitation Center in Englewood, CO. With the assistance of Benny's daughter, Katie, Jane utilized one of that facilities' excellent services to create a web site where she posts updates on his condition. That way, his friends and relatives can be kept current about his progress by subscribing to those updates or just by periodically visiting the site. This solution is so much better than Jane's having to send out periodic emails to a distribution list.

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For the last week or so, I've been using Google Reader as my RSS Feed Reader rather than Bloglines about which I commented back on November 10. Both services do an adequate job of gathering the information for me to peruse, but I find I like the Google Reader interface better than I do the Bloglines interface. My friend, Mike Neel, has just the opposite reaction which illustrates I suppose that no one service is best for everyone.

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Now that I'm back from my visit to Georgia and again have access to a real Internet connection, I've got to get back in the habit of posting regularly to this blog.  Please forgive the slow posting during the last month while I celebrated and stressed out about the holidays.

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... to all of you who read this blog. Here is my Christmas card to you.

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Connor, who is 19 months old, shows us old hands how to appreciate a Christmas gift.  I think his reaction is priceless.

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Could anyone wish for anything more for Christmas?

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I don't go to the movies much any more, and certainly not with the frequency I did as a child when you could get into a movie for $0.25.  Usually I wait until a movie comes out on DVD and, if I am really interested, I rent and watch it.  And no, I'm not such a movie fan that I have a Netflix account.  However, I have a friend or two who are really movie buffs and who like to see the movies as soon as they come out.  Tom is one such friend, and he and I plan to attend a movie this coming Saturday afternoon as a way to celebrate the holidays together. 

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My grandson, Connor, turned 19 months old on December 1, 2006.  His Dad, Mike, has done a great job of documenting his appearance at the first of each month since he arrived.  This crop of his picture at this milestone is provided for those of you who don't have access to Mike's Flickr site as a Friend or Family member.  Since I remember his father at this same age, I can assure you that Connor has that same, mischievous glint in his eye that his father had at the same age.   I'm sure you'll forgive a doting old grandfather for his pride in posting this darling photograph of the little tike.

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My son, Mike, chastised me, quite rightly, in a comment he left to my last post, pointing out that I hadn't made any posts here since the 21st. As I explained to him in my response, just because I'm not posting to this blog that doesn't mean that I am not posting to the web. In fact, I often post quite a bit more, though less original content, on my the blog at my Bloglines account that I call «My Reading List.»

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Instead of reading this blog, do yourself a favor and devote whatever time you might have wasted here to reading Hugh MacLeod's How to be creative instead.  It is funnier, wiser, and more eloquent than anything I could ever write.  And if his way of thinking tickles your fancy as much as it does mine, subscribe to the RSS feed for his blog.

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