the saddness of my evening has been discovered by Nielson! It turns out that 45% of TV viewers are watching TV by themselves.

Grandma's getting more web-savvy than me!?

Not mine at least--we had to convince them and even pay for their internet connection, and give them a computer, but they are trying and thats the first step... My mother is super into it though, she sells stuff on Ebay, has made friends... its kind of crazy. This all seems to jive with what I found on a media brief about internet searches from Biddys and Geezers

Yule Log thought you were missing out in that apartment without a fireplace! The lovely people at WGN are bringing back the Yule Log which shows comericial free fire burning!

I have all these friends who are doing ridiculously cool things, like teaching in China and the like... I read all about if and try to remember why I have a real job?

laurens journal

jackie and I at work are both from Ohio... being out in Utah from the Midwest is such a change. I mean, there is snow out here. Real Snow. not like those days at BostonMIllsBrandywinewhere the 8 trails and 5" base used to keep me moving and content... Now a days I need fresh pow or at least the vast majority of bowls and trails open to even get out of bed. well, not really. I'm still new at this... any snow makes me happy!

ok, super cool site for really random items... I bought about half my christmas presents on it...

fredflare

so I'm going to miss Philmont immensely, but I can live vicariously through those that are around... PhilStaff