Happy New Year!

It's almost 2009 and I'm at Starbucks with my girl.
2008 wasn't all bad but it sure didn't have much good about it. Too much time away from home and loved ones. There were some bright spots (Machu Picchu and the Casa Monica to name two), but overall not all that great. 2009 will be better! More assertion than prediction but we'll go with that for now. Happy New Year!

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Sent from the father of Shazaam, Prince of the short, blond dogs.

Knitting!

I found a great little knitting shop in Virginia Beach today, unfortunately, the owner is retiring and closing the store in March. Very sad...

Luckily though, I got some yarn and new needles to start a new project, a Clapotis shawl for Kris. We'll see how it goes!

Yummy food!

Yummy Cheesecake Factory! Brought to you by Too Much Food December.

Evernote

Wow, sometimes cool things unexpectedly pop onto my radar.  One of those things is Evernote (evernote.com).  It allows you to make notes on their system and then search them.  No big deal, right?  But:

 

You can e-mail notes to you Evernote account.

You can scan documents to your Evernote account (and it will OCR and make them searchable).

You can send pictures (of whiteboards, notes, etc) and it will OCR and make them searchable.

Clip web pages….

 

The list goes on, I’m sure.  After all this data collection you can use it from anywhere!  Your web-enabled device, computer, laptop, work computer, etc.  Simply astounding! 

 

Is this cloud computing?  If so, I like it!

 

I’m off to explore some more of Evernote!

 

Hello! Christmas Eve at my house.

Wow! I haven't blogged in forever! The holidays are rolling right along seemingly far too fast. I remember, when I was a less age-challenged kid it seemed like the holidays took forever to get here, now they just blow right on by....

We just finished our new traditional lasagna dinner. We started this tradition last year for an unknown reason and it worked out so well that we decided to keep it. I love turkey, but that's so... Thanksgiving!

Here's hoping everyone has a wonderful Christmas Eve and a Merry Christmas!