108 Degrees in the sun on Thursday!
The Weekly Re-cap: I told you about my library – my Quiet Home Away From Home and the 4th of July. I posted up my 1st poll – about your library use. I helped a friend interpret her dreams about tornadoes and told you the history behind soap operas. Last but certainly not least, I continued my interview series with an interview of my Mom 🙂
The Weekly Read: The Everything Blogging Book and Shift Your Habit.
The Weekly Music: EdXeno sang/rapped Vanilla Ice’s – Ice Ice Baby during karaoke at Elda’s on Lark and it was awesome!
The Weekly Movie: We went to a pre-screened of the movie Cyrus. It had it’s funny moments for sure, but I think they could have done more with the story to make it more interesting or humorous. Not awesome but not bad either.
We also watched The Spy Next Door. I always like Jackie Chan movies 🙂
Lucky
The Weekly Downer: A baby bunny falling into the pool and ending up in the skimmer 😦
The Weekly Good Karma: Michael rescuing the bunny out of the skimmer and us getting to spend and hour or two with ‘Lucky’ before we released him back into the wild. Click the link – you know you want to! The bunny was so cute!
The Weekly Interesting Facts: Since we met Lucky why not learn about rabbits 🙂 Rabbit facts found here.
- A male rabbit is called a buck and a female rabbit is called a doe.
- A rabbit can see behind himself, without turning his head, but has a blind spot in front of his face.
- A rabbit sweats through the pads on its feet.
- Domestic rabbits cannot breed with wild rabbits.
- Rabbits are the most active at dawn and dusk.
- Rabbits can jump to a height of more than 36 inches.
- Rabbits can purr, just like a cat.
- Rabbits cannot vomit.
The Weekly Food: Steak, Portabellas and Zucchini on the grill and Chocolate Zucchini Bread.
The Weekly OMG: I swam in my pool for the first time this week!! This is the 4th summer I’ve owned my pool!
Yummy Coconut Birthday Cake!
The Weekly Birthdays: Ryan Jones, Erin Carlotto, Jean Languish, and Kevin Mowry. I hope you all have wonderful birthdays!! Leave a comment and tell me what you did to celebrate!
The Weekly Activity: Celebrating Independence Day. Bella & I also made a visit down to see Mom & Dad. Dad replaced the brake pads on my truck for me. Michael & I went out with some of the Times Union Bloggers. We started at the Albany Pump Station and moved on to Elda’s on Lark. A nice gathering of interesting people 🙂
The Weekly new people I’ve found on Twitter: DanielTosh, Albany_Weather, AlbanyJobs, YNNAlbany, Sue215, HunterMtn, SPAC_2010, and DeFrees.
The Weekly Charity I’m Pimping: LaDorka’s National MS Walk.
Isabella's 1st Birthday
The Weekly Countdown: Isabella’s 3rd Birthday: 16 Days.
The Weekly Hypothetical: You’re a gossip type – how long do you wait until a person walks out of a room to trash talk them?
The Weekly Not-So-Hypothetical: What have you been doing to stay cool this week? (It was 108 degrees in the sun here today!!)
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Sorry I’m posting this up so late. I’ve been letting Michael use my computer since his crashed and sharing isn’t so easy when it comes to my laptop….
Last night was the Times Union’s “Media 2010: How Blogs Shape The New Conversation” in the Touhey Forum in the Thelma P. Lally Building at The College of St. Rose in Albany, NY. They had a panel of their top bloggers to speak and answer questions from the audience. They had a video of some local bloggers who spoke briefly about what their blogs were about. One I found amusing was the Parent to Parent blog. Tracy Ormsbee said I’m here to give you parenting advice from an experienced standpoint and Jennifer Gish said something along the lines of “I’m kind of the parenting how not to, I’m the train wreck you can’t turn away from.”
They mentioned that the Times Union “readership” is split into thirds:
There were many other statistics given, but I don’t remember them all.
The blogger Libby Post writes a blog about LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-gender) issues. I would guess that she has one of the most controversial blogs on the site. She seemed to handle herself with confidence and reasonableness. She spoke about how she approves 98% of the comments that come through the site. The 2% that are denied are erroneous, make no sense, or they advocate violence. I think that’s very fair on her part. She’ll let comments through that disagree with her and that’s good for adult discussions if you ask me. She did speak about people posting anonymous comments. No blogger likes when people post anonymously. She made the comment about “the cowardice of anonymity.” I’m a big believer that if you’re not willing to put your name to a statement you’re going to make, then you probably shouldn’t be making the comment. Michael spoke a little bit about it in his blog today as well….
I’m so glad that the Times Union sponsored this event and they had a great turn-out. Below are some other people that were there, were mentioned, or weren’t there – but I like their local blogs. I’m going to put them in alphabetical order so nobody thinks I’m showing preference.
Check out some of their blogs and let me know what you think. Leave them comments and show them some love. We all love blog visits, but we love comments even more. 🙂
Do you have a blog? If I don’t read your blog, tell me your link so I can check it out.
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