Sunday morning early-- I have just created this blog. Not because I want anyone to read it-- I won't even mention it to anyone. The idea of having my things in webspace rather than on my own computer is appealing-- it is the natural extension of getting my photographs "out there" so that I won't lose them in a crash (as I memorably did last summer!). I have been sporadically keeping a journal in a word document and periodically printingit out into a notebook but I like this idea much better. I hope sometime to do the same thing for my genealogy. In fact, earlier this spring Dick Eastman wrote about a web-based program called PedigreeSoft. I signed up for the free trial version but a few days later PS was sold to another company and seemed to disappear. I assume it is only a temporary disappearance and that the new version will turn up one of these days. One of my main motivations for journaling is simply to document that I get anything at all accomplished. When I think back about my days I have trouble remembering what I am so busy with...or should I say "with what I am so busy"? I did get up early and bound off the baby blanket that I have made for Mark and Laura Langhans. Now I am dithering about whether to start Melanie's "Mystery Stole", start a new pair of socks or do both. In the meantime Margaret leaves for Massachusetts this morning. There are so many issues connected with her that I don't dare think much about it. The one day at a time philosophy needs to be adhered to strictly. So for this day it is just her departure-- always very hard for me. I am glad that she drove herself down to York Beach last week-- it was like a trial run for Marlborough-- which will be the longest and most difficult drive she has done. She is calm, confident and competent, however and has earned every bit of the independence she has. My resolutions for today? Download some podcasts from "This American Life" to my iPod, work on the M.M. genealogical project and do some knitting.