Week 9. Thing 23. Program Summary.

Well, I guess I have reached the end of Library 2.0. Or perhaps just the beginning. I really feel that this has been a great experience. It has been a learning experience, a fun experience, and has put me more in touch with the many sites and functions available on the internet. I am sure I would not have subscribed to so many sites or even thought to use some of them had it not been for this program. I enjoyed doing the blogs, mashups and other fun things. I think there is an awful lot of trash out there, but within that there are some worthwhile sites.
From a personal point of view I have found a lot of information with the RSS feeds that I have now on my Bloglines account. From a work point of view I have seen how libraries might use some of the sites and how I might use them for book reviews and so on.
If anything surprised me, it was how much I enjoyed this and how much of it was fun. And that I really felt I was learning. It was also interesting to see what other librarians were talking about and how other libraries were applying 2.0. As well as seeing what other participants blog comments were.
The only comment I have about doing anything differently, would be the timing. It would have been better to have done this maybe from January to March, when we tend to be a little quieter at work. The summer is such a hectic time for us all, with the kids out of school & summer reading going on. We are all tremendously busy and it was sometimes difficult to clear one’s head to focus on this.
I would most definitely participate in any future program of this kind. I think it has been a good experience and very worthwhile.
I am excited about the prospect of getting an MP3 player so that I can download audiobooks or music.

Thanks to everyone involved in planning this program, for giving us this learning opportunity, & special thanks to Annette G. for her patience and advice.

Week 9. Thing 22. Downloadable Audiobooks.

Thing 22. Downloadable Audiobooks.
This was a fun discovery time for me. I had not previously downloaded books. I liked the Overdrive website, but am still waiting for them to send me an email to tell me I can download the book I chose. This had no holds on it so I expected to get it straight away - perhaps it takes time to get the emails. I did download a book from NetLibrary. It was a relatively straightforward procedure although it didn't download on the first attempt. I had some help from Annette there. I can really see the fun in having books on an MP3 player. If one were ill & not able to read, or just tired or have headache or something where it is easier to listen than read, it would be a big help. I can see the use of this on the beach or while on the treadmill, or in many other situations. I thought the selection of titles in the two systems was good, and I am sure they are still expanding. I did like the Project Gutenburg site and thought that it would be useful for more classic or unusual reading material. World ebook Fair was good if you get the free month subscription, but I doubt I would pay the fee.
I downloaded 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith from NetLibrary, and am still waitng for the 101 Dalmatians from Overdrive (this I chose really just to practice).
As someone who runs a book discussion group, I think these sites are also useful to see what people are checking out & to get previews of titles.

Week 9 Thing 21 Podcasts

Thing 21. Podcasts.
I have added a podcast called Book Voyages to my Bloglines account. "Book Voyages is a podcast about children's literature from the point of view of a school library/media specialist. It features reviews of books as well as inteviews with students and authors." http://www.podcast.net/show/39068

I also added NPR Books for its book reviews & interviews with authors. There was a good interview with the director of a new movie called The Keeper, about the life of Omar Khayam. I think the NPR podcasts will be of great interest to me personally & may be of use for book groups, readers advisory etc.
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=4819383

I found some interesting Travel podcasts on Podcast Alley.
http://podcastalley.com/podcast_genres.php?pod_genre_id=16

I liked the Yahoo Podcasts site, and found useful information on creating a podcast. I liked their Podcast Search & that is how I initially found the NPR Books podcasts. I also looked on the NPR site to find them that way.

I liked the idea of podcasts of children's stories that Denver Public Library had, but hated the psychedelic visuals that accompanied them. I found them very distracting & disturbing. A picture of the book cover would have been much nicer. (They also had these visuals on the NPR podcasts, is this a common thing?)

I read a lot about creating podcasts and as long as you have a microphone it did not seem to be a difficult process. I could see the library using podcasts for Book talking & certainly for book reviews. I think it would be interesting if Jen could record podcasts of her interviews with authors for Jen's Jewels. We could have podcasts with important messages, e.g. school closings or library closings in the winter. There may be ways we could use podcasts for seniors, as some of them find reading difficult. We could use them for staff training and even reports from ALA/PLA conferences. It seems to me that wherever you need to disseminate information, a podcast could be used. There seem to be multiple uses for them.

Week 9 Thing 20. What I think about YouTube.

What I think about YouTube. Firstly,YouTube is becoming a much more acceptable mainstream service. What was once a forum for weird home movies and strange mashups, has now been used in a CNN/YouTube Democratic debate. See http://www.slate.com/id/2171005/ for commentary on this. Though old school politicians may speak against this type of debate, those with a better ear for public opinion, are realizing that the internet, YouTube included, opens up all kinds of avenues for them.
Secondly, it is a great place to find old footage of those bands you were such a fan of way back when. If you are doing specific searches, YouTube is very good. As with other sites if you are just browsing you can come up with all sorts of stuff you don't want & some of very dubious subject matter, however, you may also find that nugget that is really cool.

I first tried to input the video into my blog using an account with YouTube & having them add the video to my blog. Despite a message saying that the video would be placed in my Blog shortly, it never turned up, so I went ahead & used the embedding method.

I could see the library taking video of special occasions or programs & putting them on YouTube, or making small service announcements, e.g. what we do at HCPL. Or putting short training clips on there so that all staff could see the same information about a new database or piece of software.

Google Video site was nicely laid out & had a good range of material, I found Yahoo video more limited. I was surprised that Yahoo Video was voted #1.

With all of these video sites both sound and picture quality varies tremendously as does subject matter, so it's another case of looking for what you really want. They are all fun to play around with.

Dennis Chambers Drum Solo with Carl Filipiak

Week 9 YouTube

The You Tube video I chose is of Dennis Chambers (Baltimore native, voted in the top 40 all time best drummers in the world, plays drums for Santana & appeared with them when they played at Superbowl 37), Carl Filipiak - also from Baltimore, who plays many gigs around town & who has published instructional guitar videos/DVDs, and Paul Soroka who plays sax and lyricon and keyboards. Dennis drums all over the world & holds many workshops. He very kindly signed some drumsticks for me along with my friend & his, Tim Steele, who currently drums in The Approach & Crawdaddies - two local bands. I used to have a 5 piece set of Pearl Select drums with Zildjian cymbals & took classes for a while, so I have an interest in drumming. Pearl has a Masters Series Dennis Chambers snare drum & there are Dennis Chambers signature drumsticks available. Carl Filipiak is a lovely, modest guy who plays brilliant guitar. His band plays jazz fusion with a Jimi Hendrix influence & I love his version of Little Wing. Check out his website for listings for local gigs. www.carlfilipiak.com. Paul Soroka can play keyboards and lyricon at the same time - there's multitasking for you. His sax is over 30 years old & he told me that if his house was on fire it is the one thing he would want to rescue.
Dennis's website is www.dennischambers.com.

To Come - what I think about YouTube

Week 8. Tutankhamun & Thing 19: Web 2.0 Awards

Last weekend I went to Philadelphia to visit the King Tutankhamun Exhibition at the Franklin Institute. Whether you have an interest in Egyptology or not, this was a superb show, very well presented and with plenty of artifacts. It was just amazing to see chairs he had sat on, to see wooden model boats from so many centuries ago, still in good condition, & to see all the gold costume jewelery and semiprecious items. The exhibition lasts until September 30th & then travels to the UK. If you get the chance to see it, please go, you will not be disappointed.

Thing 19. I had a look at biblio.com. This was a useful site but I could not find one out of print book that I was able to find in Alibris. I have had good service from them & would be most likely to check them first before other sites. I also looked at ning.com & thought this was an interesting site. Seems they are advertising a lot of positions there, so I assume this is an expanding company. It calls itself a Social Networking site, but when I went to look under that category in the awards list, I did not find it there, it was listed under Mashups. I also looked at medstory.com - I would refer a customer to medlineplus.gov, but never to a .com site, as you don't know how reliable their information is. Although it seemed Ok, when I searched for a condition it referred me to Wikipedia for an explanation of what it was. I prefer medical information to come from medical sources. As with any other websites, the awards sites may be OK for certain purposes, but as librarians I think we have to be discriminating in what we use.

Posted to Blog from ZOHO. Week 8

A CHARITY CONCERT TICKET For the benefit of Katrina Hurricane Victims Featuring B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Erykah Badu Saturday, June 16 7:30 pm Cost $150 Parker Stadium 1322 Main Street, Arcadia, Texas - 23888 ADMIT ONE

Thing 18. I discovered you cannot Publish a template. You have to copy it into a new document page and then it is possible to publish it to your blog. Nothing amazing, but easy enough to use. Some of formatting lost in translation.

Week 8 Zoho

Thing 18.
I liked Zoho & found it easy to use. I can see the benefits of having an online wordprocessing system, so that if you were working on a project with people with diverse software, you could use online documentation & all share and edit the same material with no software.
This is a fake concert ticket I created on Zoho. I used and edited a standard template. I found Zoho relatively easy to use & liked their variety of templates for different purpose. Unfortunately it did not copy the colors or formatting when I copied to blog.
CHARITY CONCERT TICKET
A CHARITY CONCERT TICKET
For the benefit of Katrina Hurricane VictimsFeaturing
B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Erykah Badu
Saturday, June 167:30 pm
Cost$150
Parker Stadium
1322 Main Street,Arcadia, Texas - 23888
ADMIT ONE

Week 7 Fish Update, Wikis & Sandbox

Fish update. Aquarium seems to have settled down again. No recent fish deaths. May start restocking in a couple of weeks.

Thing 16. I enjoyed looking at many different Wikis. I liked the idea of a Wiki as a subject guide & as a better way to present catalog information to the public. Amazon & other such sites show the customer several reviews & offer links to other books by the same author, and offer suggestions for other titles the customer may like to read. If we could use Wiki's in our catalogs, we could offer the customer so much more than we do now. Even just having a summary of the content would be helpful to most people.
Could we use a Wiki to list our databases and links, for example on the various Zones, that way they could easily be deleted by customers if no longer viable, and customers could add other links that they thought would be of interest.
I see their value for sharing projects and documents, where everyone could edit. This may be helpful to any of our committees and teams.
I also liked the idea of the Library being the center of the community and of having a HCPL community guide to Harford County and its services, not just to the library services. This would be a central place to come to where you could find everything from books, to information on trash removal, to senior centers, to health and so on.
We should also see libraries as a world wide community and instead of reinventing the wheel, if we were all linked and could share our good/innovative/creative ideas we could look at what would work for us and be able to initiate improvements on what has worked in other systems.
I really liked the Book Lovers Wiki. I enjoyed reading the reviews and got some ideas both for my own reading and as possible material for the book group I run. Maybe this is something we could do on Reader's Place.
Thing 17. Sandbox. Keep getting an error message, still trying to add my blog to favorites. OK now I did it, you can see my blog address under Harford County.
I also created a page http://marylandlibrariessandbox.pbwiki.com/What-I-am-Reading
What I am Reading, a review of Whale Season by N.M. Kelby (2nd time I have read this and am enjoying it just as much as first time - pretty funny but wise - a good summer read).
I also linked this to the FrontPage so you will see it there also.
This was kinda fun.

Week 6 # 15 Library 2.0 & Fish

I have been having a trying week. A couple of weeks back my husband & I added some small tetras (gold & neon) to our freshwater tank. Since then we have had about half of our tank of fish die. They have no discernable illness, no parasites, mucus, etc etc. visible. They do not behave strangely. One minute they are eating & swimming, the next they are floating. The deaths have been across a wide spectrum of fish. We have lost all 6 of our threadfins, but not all at once, over two weeks. We have lost 1 of 3 red wag platties, 2 blue moons, a silver mollie, a balloon mollie, a female & male guppy (2 males & 1 female remain), and of the tetras, 1 gold & 2 neons have survived. We have also discovered 3 baby somethings in the tank that remain unaffected. Cherry barbs, a Chinese algae eater & panda corys among a few others remain unaffected. This is a real puzzler. We have changed the water and both our tests & those at the pet store say the water is perfect. The temps are also OK. We are just hoping that whatever it is will stop of its own accord because we cannot find any cause for this. I have searched Google, de.licio.us and all over the web to see if I could find any info, but you have to have symptoms in order to determine a cause. If anybody out there has any ideas, I'd appreciate comments.
Now on to Library 2.0. I really enjoyed reading the "Away from the Icebergs" article. I thought his points on "just in case" collections, expecting users to educate themselves, and expecting users to come to us were valid. Libraries have to move with the times or we will lose to other sources of information & community. In "Into A New World of Librarianship" I thought the author's comments on not implementing technology for its own sake, but only when it was making an improvement was well thought out. Each library system should have a plan, and if a new technology has no value it should not be implemented just for the sake of it. In "A Ripple Effect" a small rural school library shows how it expanded its services. Some of the services offered were innovative and I could see them being implemented in our system (HCPL). Why not loan MP3 players with a downloadable books program? (Need money first!) I thought a lot of what they were doing we already do but there is always something someone is doing differently. I read all the OCLC Space Newsletter articles. They were all of interest. I see how much databases will become linked in the future. There will be no limit to access to knowledge and you will be able to download a book in French from a French company, as easily as downloading from American ones. You will be able to access documents or articles from Russia as easily as from Spain or from the U.S. There is so much potential here and we are still only at the beginning. Library 2.0 is about how we view the future of libraries and our place in the world, not just in our own town or community. It is about access to information, but also about community. There is an article in Library Journal April 15, 2007 about Laura Cohen's blog, "Library 2.0: An Academic's Perspective", where she gives insight on dealing with the chaos of change using Library 2.0. Read her Manifesto at this address.
http://liblogs.albany.edu/library20/2006/11/a_librarians_20_manifesto.html
There is also another article in the same edition of Library Journal called "Journey to Library 2.0" by Robin Hastings, that refers to the 23 Things and Helene Blowers.

Week 6 #13 #14 Del.icio.us & Technorati

#13 & #14 I was both overwhelmed and underwhelmed by Del.icio.us & Technorati. There was a lot of stuff out there & a lot of ways to get to more stuff. In that sense I found it a bit overwhelming. As to being underwhelmed though, I found a lot of the content to be trivial, virtually meaningless or dreadfully written (especially in Technorati). I do not really need to read someone's blog about some Latino porn star which is one of the items that came up when I was searching. Top Searches consists of people looking for information on Paris Hilton. This is going to increase my knowledge of the world in such important ways! Technorati can be fun to use, and I like the idea of tagging, but there is just so much junk to wade through. I don't know how much I would use this site.
I did do a focused search for guppies (aquarium fish) in Del.icio.us and got some useful sites and information, however, I could have also got most of this just by doing a Google search. I do like the idea of tagging and find it a fun way of getting information. I like that it is so open and that you can include a wide selection of words to indicate your subject. It's sort of like browsing, where you may find a bit more than what you were actually looking for. I can see the uses to a library although I don't know how you keep out the bad stuff.
Del.icio.us bookmarks are supposed to be used to help build "an expansive knowledge network."
This is good if the knowledge is useful and accurate but what's the point of a knowledge network of junk. (Wikipedia is having a problem with this). I could see more uses for Del.icio.us in a work setting than I could for Technorati which felt more fun than value.
The PLCMCL2 site was interesting, and here you start to see information that is more intelligently presented. I can see the use in having bookmarks that can be accessed from anywhere and there is potential for librarians to use this as a tool for research or to keep up to date on information about the profession.
I read Alan's blog (My 23 Journeys) and had to agree with most of what he found in reviewing these sites. They do have some uses but, as librarians, I think we will have to be careful not to get bogged down in the trivial.

Week 5 continued Rollyo

Although I found it easy to set up my own Rollyo list, I did not find this system very good at providing explanations or information on how to place it into my Blog. In the 23 Things, we are instructed to link the Rollyo to our Blog, but the only instructions I could find in Rollyo were about adding a blog to your Rollyo Search. Maybe someone knows how to add the link to our blogs?
Now, with that perseverance for solving a problem that all reference librarians exhibit, I have discovered that you need to go into the Dashboard tab and then into tools while signed in. You will see the Rollyo search box on the right side of my blog and can go into My Profile and see my list Earth & Sky.
I hope that means I have completed the 5th week. I did find some of this week frustrating. Not all of this week's sites are very user friendly, and you really have to search to work things out.
As far as uses for Rollyo, I can see it would be good to focus searches to be more subject specific and to contain only the sites you know and that are trustworthy and reliable.

Week 5 Continued LibraryThing

Using LibraryThing in itself was easy, but I was very frustrated by the widget. I imported it onto my blog using HTML, but it did not seem to want to access My Library & kept coming up with some selection that was nothing to do with me. Actually getting it into my blog was not a problem and I liked the idea of it. It worked if I just wanted to search for an author or title, but on the webpage it says you can use it to access your own collection and this I could not do. In the end I deleted it all and went back to LibraryThing and just got the HTML code for the standard format, which you will now see on the right hand side of my Blog. This is OK, but takes up a lot of space. I could have reduced the number of books I wanted it to show, I suppose, but wanted to indicate a bit of variety.

Week 5. Playing Around with Image Generators and Creating an Avatar

Here is my Menu from ttp://www.generatorland.com/generators/froofroomenu_gl.php#

Microwaved Roebuck with a Browned Pasta
Julienned Mouse with a Foaming Pasta
Roasted Marten with a Bologna-infused Risotto
Flat Iron Toucan with a Filbert Confit
Fried Shrew with a Poached Egg Mousse

Use the Froo Froo Restaurant Menu Generator to discover those amazing dishes you never knew you wanted.

This Cat is from http://kscakes.com/LolCats/ Lolcat Generator
The Owl above is from http://wigflip.com/roflbot/ Roflbot Generator.
Roflbot is for generating image macros without using Photoshop. It's like the Lolcat Generator but not restricted to pictures of cats.

I thought some of the generators were great fun. Some of them were just stupid though, like the Gnome Name generator or the Cat Name generator.

Creating an Avatar is lots of fun. I did one first in my Yahoo account, but could find no way to export or copy it, and the information provided by Yahoo seems to suggest that their avatars are only to be used in Yahoo. (I asked Nette too, and she could find no way to export, copy or paste either - if anyone has done this, please leave a comment). I then created one in Meez. This was very easy and I exported it using the URL to my Blogger Profile. It is as large as I could get it and is not very easy to see, but it is a girl on a lounger on a city rooftop. Just to remind me to take things easy occasionally.

So far this week has been fun.

MERLIN & More

This is the second part of Week 4. I have subscribed to Merlin, looked at Social Networking, Avatars etc. I have looked at Feedster and some other Feed searchers & repositories. I found some weird stuff on Technorati that didn't seem relevant to my searches. While looking for Foodie blogs or gourmet eating, it came up with a lot of blogs on eating disorders - not really what I was looking for. I did not add more Feeds to my list in Bloglines, although I could have. I think it is possible to have too many, and I prefer to keep a select few, rather than overload on a lot of junk I will never look at. I would rather add sites as I find them and use them, so that I know they are what I want and what I will look at and use.
The actual process of adding feeds does not seem to be difficult. After all these people want your business. It's more the profusion or confusion of availability of stuff that can get overwhelming.
I get the point of using Second Life to create virtual libraries to meet other librarians etc, and of using it as an adjunct to work, but if I had a second life to invent would I really want to be a librarian? Why not an astronaut, a race car driver, a billionaire Hollywood star, a pulitzer prize winner, discoverer of the cure for cancer? Not that there's anything wrong with being a librarian of course, but that is the life I already have, wouldn't I want something different?
Some social networking sites have already suffered from their openness. My Space has sexual predators, and many parents are worried. Sometimes kids aren't any more wise to the virtual world than they are to the real world.
I like the idea of Avatars, they are fun, but you can really use up a lot of time playing with them.

Week 4 RSS Feeds and Bloglines and Challenge

Today I have set up my Bloglines account. I have chosen 13 feeds so far and am still working on adding a few more. Maurice, you cannot hide, I have you in my Bloglines now!

What shall I say about Bloglines. It is not hard to work with these. I hope I find time to actually look at some of the feeds I have chosen. It makes me wonder when everyone else does this? Do you look at these at home, at work, when you are out on the reference desks? I can see how it saves time to have your interests under one roof so to speak, but even so it's still possible to get carried away browsing these.

I also looked at the tutorials for RSS and Wikis by Common Craft on You Tube. I thought they were very helpful and clear.

Important note: Challenge!!! If you are in Week 4 #8 of the 23 Things, scroll down until you see the Discovery items. "3. Create a post in your blog about this exercise. Optional: If you're up to the challenge, you can provide the URL address to your public bloglines account." The item on the page tells you to click on the Share Tab in Bloglines. When you do this you will find the Public URL. You copy the Public URL from your Bloglines site, into your Participants Blog, so that other users can share see your feeds. What is not mentioned anywhere is how to get a USERNAME to add to the end of the Public URL. You need to go into the Blog tab on Bloglines and set up a blog there in order to get a username. Without this you cannot use the Public URL to share your Feeds. I was very confused by this whole section and Annette, through messing around and trial and error, finally figured out about the Blog username. You need never use the actual blog again, as long as you have the username. Note: To share your feeds, when you fill in the required information on the blog page, make sure you mark everything Public (not Private) or no one else will be able to see your feeds.

I don't know whether any of the people who already finished this section actually did this discovery activity. If you did and also had these problems let me know.

Anyway if you want to see what Feeds I have so far, check out this URL. I intend to add more feeds as time permits.

http://www.bloglines.com/public/JuliaM

Still on Week 3 Tech Fair Comments and other Fun

I really enjoyed the Tech Fair. I discovered I can play Wii tennis but apparently cannot bowl. This is funny as I have played in 10-pin bowling leagues and have a reasonable average, but haven't played tennis in years. I was interested in the IPOD & MP3 demos, as I don't have one. I learned what a Mashup was and have since investigated them online. Looking at all the links that I could follow and all the neat things I could do from the 'Flickr mashups and 3rd party sites' link was amazing. It is so cool that there is all this free stuff out there. I just don't know who has time for it all though. You could easily lose hours of your life playing with this stuff.

I did make a motivational poster on Flickr & emailed it to my friend.

The technology item I am into at the moment and am finding of real practical use, is the Garmin Nuvi GPS. My husband bought one of these and I thought it was just going to be another gadget, but we have already found it to be very useful. This weekend we were traveling from New Jersey through Philadelphia with a couple of friends. We decided that we wanted to get lunch somewhere before we reached home. We thought about stopping at Bayard House at Chesapeake City, but with it being Father's Day, wondered if it would be booked. Using the GPS, we got the phone number, used a cell phone to call, and with the GPS estimated time of arrival, booked our table for 1:30 pm. We arrived on time and without getting lost, spending time pouring over roadmaps, or getting into the usual family arguments over directions.

Do you think it's weird that men won't ask directions yet they will let a female digital voice tell them where to go???? RECALCULATING! Honestly I think this little piece of equipment could prevent some divorces - have you ever been on a road trip - with the whole family!!!???? Just think how much more pleasant it will be now.

Using Flickr

I have completed Week 2 and have set up a blog, obviously, and am tracking my progress.

I am now on Week 3 and have been exploring Flickr. This turned out to be quite a painless process. I got myself a Flickr account, took some photos on the branch digital camera and uploaded them to my computer and to Flickr. The photos are nothing fancy, just some odd shots around the branch. I then went into my Blogger account and am currently writing this post before adding one of the photos I took, that is now in Flickr, and bringing it into this Blog. Wow, isn't this fun? I love it, being allowed and encouraged to play with this stuff. Actually I am really doing it so I can be one up on my husband who thinks he knows everything - he tells me he is perfect and only thought he'd been wrong once, then he realized he was right all along!!! I don't think so!

Anyway to get back to the matter at hand. Here is a picture of part of our Story Time Collection. These are books for librarian use only. I tried using the Puppet book, Miss Moo Moo the Cow at a Dropin Storytime. It was fun to use, but probably a little long for a Dropin. Smaller groups would probably get more out of it. Our Dropins average 40-100 people!

Before the Technology Fair

I am excited that HCPL is having a Technology Fair and have already signed up to work through MLL 2.0. I'm interested in technology in general although I confess to having neither IPOD or MP3 player, video game consoles, blackberry or laptop. I do not text message because my friends and I all phone or email each other and I have no reason to do it. This does not mean, however, that I do not see any intrinsic worth in these things and it is necessary, not just for work, but also for one's own personal growth, to keep up with what is happening in the world of technology. Things move and change so fast and we all have such busy lives that I think it is wonderful that our Library systems are helping us do this.
I have completed Week #1 and listened to the 7.5 Habits and would say that my goal is to work through 2.0 in order to become more familiar with things I already can do (blogs) and to learn to do things I do not yet do. I don't want to be left behind as far as new technologies go and I think knowing more will help when I am asked questions in the branch (by customers or other staff).
I have to remember not to get frustrated by Problems, and just work through them.
I have to remember to Play (why do I feel guilty about playing at work & it not seeming I should be).
I think the hardest thing of all will be finding Time to do this program and finding actual time when I can Focus on it and not the million other things that seem to be demanding my attention.
In my toolbox I will have friends' & colleagues' expertise, the computer & internet, digital camera, and other technologies.