Geeky Excited!!

I maintain a pretty busy calendar at work and, unfortunately, there's not a way for me to view my calendar away from the office. It's difficult for me to make commitments during the work week without knowing when my scheduled meetings with clients are. I've created a Google Calendar for my work stuff and have been adding meetings to it while I'm at work to keep me in the know away from my desk. But... I wanted a calendar app. I didn't want to have to have my browser open and I wanted something that would sync automatically for me.

I decided to switch to Thunderbird the other day (because I just needed something new) to handle my email. The promise of extensions was just too much to resist. I discovered the Lightning calendar add-on and then... ta da! The GData Provider extension which allows for 2 way communication with Google Calendar. After following the easy step-by-step installation instructions here, I was up and running. I'm so excited and can't wait to get this going at work as well!

I've found a few other extensions that I am looking forward to using at the office as well. The Xnote extension for Thunderbird allows you to add sticky notes to email messages. I love it! I've been so busy lately at work that I'm not able to respond to emails right away. With Xnote, I'll be able to quickly jot a note about an email - right "on" the email - so that when I am able to respond to the email later on I'll have my notes right there. Also, the sticky notes look like little yellow post-its - so cute! Love it!!

The Show InOut extension is going to make my life a little easier. I store all messages - incoming and outgoing - related to a client in a folder for that client. When I open the folder, it's sometimes a little confusing to look at the emails because the outgoing copies always say my name since I'm the "from" person on it. Show InOut adds a graphical designator to show if the email was incoming or outgoing and then shows the sender or recipient. Nice!!

Yay! I love new things! Especially new things that don't cost me a thing. ;)

Extra Super Way Cool Online Music Thingy

clipped from www.visualcomplexity.com Musicovery Musicovery, by Frederic Vavrille, is an interactive webRadio Frederic made all come together in Musicovery. The user can start by selecting a mood in the mood/energy matrix or choose a radio acording to their mood by clicking in the colored matrix. After that the interaction is very similar to MusicPlasma, where one can easily navigate between different artists, only this time with sound. URL: http://musicovery.com/

I love it!!! So you just start by clicking in your mood and music gets generated through different genres all linked together in a sort of constellation. Brilliant! SO much fun to play with!

Guidelines for Cats

clipped from www.jamesshuggins.com Guidelines for Cats Doors: Do not allow closed doors in any room. To get door opened, stand on hind legs and hammer with forepaws. Once door is opened, it is not necessary to use it. Bathrooms: Always accompany guests to the bathroom. It is not necessary to do anything . . . just sit and stare. When supervising cooking, sit just behind the left heel of the cook. You cannot be seen and thereby stand a better chance of being stepped on and then picked up and comforted. For book readers, get in close under the chin, between eyes and book, unless you can lie across the book itself. Bedtime: Always sleep on the human at night so s/he cannot move around.

I Stumbled Upon this page - hilarious! Finn and Fiona must have studied it. I'm glad to know that ours aren't the only cats in the world that feel that it's necessary to accompany people to the bathroom. Of course, this guide doesn't mention playing in the potty or hunting toilet paper rolls. Finn is a cat obsessed with everything bathroom...

What's Next?

Months of Planning - check.
Wedding - check.
Honeymoon- check.

umm....

What's next?!

I think Wham and Pa would like a grandchild, but we're WAY too poor to do that yet. Oh, and I think Alex's head might explode. It's fun to tease him about it, though.

So what's really next? Well, here are some ideas, in no particular order:

* Thank you notes, thank you notes, thank you notes.
* Buy a Hutch so that we can put away all our beautiful wedding gifts.
* Decide on colors and paint apartment.
* Work on resume.
* Organize office/guest room.
* Do official changing of name with Social Security, DMV, etc, etc, etc...
* Edit wedding and honeymoon pictures and provide captions. Get prints.
* Review professional proofs and decide on pictures for albums.
* Work on Wedding Albums, scrapbooks, etc.
* Scottish Games!
* Irish Fest!
* Alex's Birthday!
* Joe & Christina's Wedding then Michele & Darrel's Wedding!
* Halloween.
* Clean out and organize room of doom - transform into library/organized storage area.

Ok. I'm starting to feel a little better - all of those are things that I expect to do in the next few months and it's starting to look like I won't be as bored as I thought I'd be! And then it'll be Thanksgiving and Christmas... Time is going to fly by!