24 holy cow, last time I was him I believe you were getting ready to change his diaper.

Are you still in contact with your father? Musician I tend to believe he was. It seems that your relationship with your mother has changed over the years. For the better I might add.

Facebook, Twitter, MySpace I really couldn’t tell the difference from one or the other.

I guess I need to put up more pics on MySpace. would like you to see the little family that I have now.

Be well.

It seems my dislike of Facebook may be keeping me from being more findable but not making it to any reunions hasn’t helped either. My 25th in 2011 is a good goal — sounds like a plan. Excellent guesstimation on my youngest bro tho’, as you perused, you likely already discovered he’s 24 (crazy, eh?). My family’s quite well & spread thru CA into Oregon so we really only ’see’ each other online. Do invite Tanya to visit me here too!?

Dorian |_|) “The most beautiful discovery friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” ~ Elisabeth Foley

I ran into Tanya about two weeks ago on Facebook. We’ve been sending messages back and forth since then. I had no idea about this side of you. I’ve read quite a few of your posts already.

I guess my interest in looking up old friends was spurred by my 20th class reunion last year. Even though I did not attend. It got me interested in what everyone was up to all these years later. How’s your family? I guess your little brother is around 22 now? Well take care..

Coffee & its ilk are curative, thus the coffee-maker behind my curtain..

Dorian |_|) “Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.” ~ Stephanie Piro

Thanks for this, Dorian. HTML code, here I come. Connie Computer, brace yourself!

|_|) “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

PS: Thank you.

What wonderful galleries they are; that Twitter one, in particular. Thus, the need to choose how we go about the things we choose to go about. Where Twitter’s concerned, by choosing not to concern myself w/tweets that don’t make it into Twhirl & shutting it down once in a while, it’s no longer a time drain. The myriad blogs are more time-consuming but Rhodester & I follow a simple rule when it comes to chatting w/the other patrons.. If we don’t immediately know what we want to say upon reading a post, we don’t comment. After all, there’ll be plenty of other opportunities.

While I may have a written to-do list, my real planning goes into the how-to. Our differing approaches prove the importance of not letting ourselves settle for doing things in the prescribed manner. I do like the manner in which you write How Not To Write & look forward to no longer lurking just as soon as I’ve streamlined you in! Thanx for patronizing our gallery, we’re always open & love to chat, be sure to grab a coffee refill while you’re here.

Dorian |_|) “Information Superhighway is really an acronym for Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos.” ~ Kevin Kwaku

The adage, God is in the details, is certainly true of the intricacies of such wonders as flowers — for example — to which you can attest. How true it is of the little unexpected things that improve our lives!? There are miracles awaiting us in the nooks & crannies.

Cats are not only proof but practitioners. Shadow asked me to thank you for the tuna today (you too, Charee!). She’s still lickin’ her lips from all the online love today.. =^@.@^=

Shadow’s human |_|) “Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.” ~ Jim Davis

Having been driven by deadlines for more than 15 yrs, the stress becomes so much a part of life I forget how to say no sometimes. The reminders to ourselves that “it’s OK” to be human and “it’s OK to say no”, are necessary and too few and far between. We have to take time or force ourselves to MAKE time for what’s so important in our lives – the little things that one day make up the big things.

I’m glad you’ve been able to get your digital life streamlined. It must feel great to be organized again.

Thank you once again for an inspiring cup of motivation.

You captured what’s at stake w/“the little things that one day make up the big things.” Our lives’ real worth is found in what we’d have whether successful or not which is why true success builds on or around those intangibles. It’s as important to be open to reminders as to be reminded; keep up the awareness.

Thank YOU for topping that cup of motivation up! As a proponent of controlled chaos, I do enjoy a nice influx of organization & — yes — reorganization. In many ways, my online life is my life as it’s not only the primary connection to my family but I’m often house-bound or even bed-ridden. Let’s keep rethinking together, shall we?

Dorian |_|) “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” ~ Stephen R. Covey

Technical question: how on earth do you get your pictures, such as that of the “wizard,” to integrate into your text? My computer (“Connie”) insists on leaving white space by any picture that I insert. Consarn it, Connie!

Notebooks are crucial; of course, my current one is a significant change from all the spiral-bound paper over the years. While relearning tho’t & reestablishing some memory after the crux of my brain damage, I used notebooks in the process, calling the one carried w/me 24-7-365 “my brain.”

Connie just needs a little more instruction.. The ‘img’ info that describes what & how to display needs to include whether you want the image to ‘align’ itself w/nearby text. How’s that for an attribute you can appreciate? The wizard pic above has a ‘left’ alignment w/some horizontal & vertical space provided to avoid overcrowding. The line of text/code/html containing the instructions for it would go at the top of the paragraph it’s next to but inside the paragraph notation <p> w/out linebreaks <br>. [e.g. <img alt="wizard" src="wizard.jpg" align="left" border="0" vspace="2" hspace="4">]

Dorian |_|) “The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.” ~ Elias Canetti