The Poddyland News 21st January 2009
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009It’s freezing cold here in South Florida today. Well freezing is a relative term I know. Put it this way, the temperature when I came to work this morning was 39 degrees. If it was in the 40’s I could have just come to work in a short sleeved shirt as usual, but since it dipped into the 30’s, I decided to put a sweater on, mostly because of the cold wind.
It was so funny sitting in traffic, watching people smoking like crazy as they often do on the way to work, cars all fogged up because they didn’t want to have to open their windows, and then some people wearing thick winter coats with hoods pulled up over their heads, trying to drive with just eyes and nose peeking out. I mean it was barely below 40 degrees, not Minnesota or Canada.
It’s been an odd week really so far. Last week was tough, with it being the second full week since I returned from England, but having Monday off for Martin Luther King day, and then spending time yesterday watching the inaugaration of President Obama, it just seemed different. Maybe in some ways it’s a relief because I was dreading something happening during the ceremony, but all went ok and the man gave a fine speech. I really hope he will prove to be a great president, one who not only cares about the USA as a nation, but about the people, and also the world that we live in. From his stirring speech he certainly has dreams of making big changes, and I truly hope that he can succeed.
While on the subject of the President, I saw this morning that the WHITEHOUSE.GOV web site has been redesigned. Gone is the stuffy old fashioned web site, and in has come a sweet looking new blog, with the first of many great articles to come. Yes there certainly is a fresh feeling in The White House already.
As for the weekend, I took my daughters out to the park twice, and to the beach (just to the boardwalk of course as it was cold), and we had a great time together.
I also managed to create two new lenses on Squidoo. The first I created on Friday night, having had a thought while reading about the new Twitterstorm lens format. So I put together a lens about The Best Breakfast Food and so far it’s done really well, soaring into the Top 1,000 in a matter of days. makes a change for me.
Secondly I thought it was about time to start putting together The Daily Joke for January 2009. This is the twelfth monthly Daily Joke lens that I have created, and the first in a few months that has had jokes and not funny pictures. It’s hard to find really good jokes that I haven’t used before, but having had a break I am finding some, and with the gap since the last one I created I hope to be able to use some of my newly learned lensmaster skills to make it look better.
Both Debbie and I have also been busy working on our blog (see below), and the traffic is increasing nicely, with lots of our friends from Squidoo and Tagfoot visiting.
HAVE YOU SEEN OUR NEW BLOG
Debbie (better know to some of you as Debnet) have a new blog, and we both invite you to join in the conversations there and to see what we are up to. We plan to cover just about anything, from what each of us is doing while we are stuck 4,500 miles apart, to news, updates and information on trendy new items or web sites / software that we like. So please if you have time drop in to see us at Off The Record. Be sure to leave us a comment to let us know you were there.
My SQUIDOO LENSES
My lens status as of today is as below:
LENS STATUS
Top 100: 0
Top 2,000: 4
Top 10,000: 7
Lenses: 74
NEW LENSES
The Best Breakfast Food
The Daily Joke January 2009
