New Stuff

Today I got my mom hooked up with a gmail account. Joy! This is important, because AOL sucks, and I can't be sending her emails not knowing if their little voices are being drowned out by hundreds upon hundreds of spamz. Booooo. We sat, 10 feet away from each other, and played around with chat and this and that so she could get the hang of it. She especially enjoyed the emoticons, and I have to admit, they are one of my favorite aspects too. Who wouldn't enjoy typing a '<' and a 3 and ending up with a tiny animated red love-you-gram?!

On a more somber note, I was terribly disappointed to realize that while you can play backgammon with other Skypers on a PC, you cannot on a mac. A sad day. That really knocked my socks off when I discovered it at my parents' house, I was so excited! But there is no playing here in appleland. One of the very very very few times I envy those PC users.

Tomorrow I'm riding with Riss to Rhinebeck, NY to see some wooliness. I hope I don't buy too much yarn, but... well... YARN. I really can't afford yarn right now, so maybe I can content myself just to take pictures and make mental notes for later? I was going to try my usual tact of just encouraging everyone ELSE to buy things, so at least I could get that groovy fibery contact high, but Riss doesn't want to spend too much either. Hmm...