More Random Thoughts

Today, I am back in training, not for a fight like Rocky, but trying to improve myself as a library employee. I am going back into the training module and looking at things that I might have over looked or didn't get a chance to take a look at. I'm looking at an e-book site, I found an interesting book, although I'm not a member, so I can't download it http://www.archive.org/details/photographyinstu00estauoft Being an avid photographer, I can't even imagine what it would have been like to have had to do all of the work that went into photography in the 1800's. I'm quite happy just to press a few buttons on my camera and get into a setting that I want. Having to create the formulas to develop the pictures would be a task as well. I had friends who took photography in High School who learned how to develop their own pictures. Now with digital cameras, you just look at what you've taken on the camera, a computer or plug the card into the TV, if you have a newer TV. I recently got a new Kodak digital camera. I am enjoying it so far, I've put up a few pictures on my Flickr page http://flickr.com/photos/tbirdshockeyfan I took some more over the weekend and hope to get them posted this week sometime. I've tried putting in some other authors and/or titles, but I keep coming up empty. I must either be inputting the information incorrectly or I must be choosing authors who aren't overly popular or who don't have the title that I am looking for available electronically. I just tried the Google Book Search http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search it has books available online, but some of them aren't available completely online, pages are omitted, but at least it is better than nothing. I chose some obscure authors and/or titles and it was able to find them, albeit with the above limitations.

I've decided that YouTube can be fun, lots of interesting videos are on it, although the quality of some them are poor. Here are some more finds that I enjoyed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VofXdFNuI3U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGE8wVTvHF0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X-t4en2wPE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BQBa45IOiY I've not had a chance to watch them completely, so I don't know if they are complete or not.

I also like music as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK2hKzZss5Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW3Risxm6PY I've had the opportunity to see Sir Paul three times in concert and I hope to be able to see him again, as he puts on a great show. This song I've not seen him perform live, but it is one of my favorites http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsWufNDJl4M

I did buy some books over the weekend, but I forgot to write down their ISBN's or the titles to input them into my LibraryThing account http://www.librarything.com/catalog/tbirdshockeyfan I'll have to add them in the next few days. It's quite nice having an online account for my books, as I am an avid book buyer, and I hate buying the same ones more than once. I saw a title this weekend at a store, I thought I owned it, but the cover looked different. I checked out my account on LibraryThing and saw that I already owned it, thus saving money and time, by not having to return it to Seattle.

I've learned much over these past 9 or so weeks. I hope that I'll be able to remember it all, especially my user names and passwords, as they all are different, so that will be a big challenge, as to trying to remember what goes with what account, especially if I don't use them on a regular basis.

Thanks for taking the time to read my blog. I hope you have a great day!