Thing 5 - Flicker

As I have stated in my earlier blog, I play a lot. Golf is one of my hobbies. I started playing golf late in life because when you have children, there is always a shortage of both money and time. So I took up golf once my children were well on their way to college degrees. And now I wish I had taken it up much earlier and found a way to play golf with them.

My experience with Flicker was long and somewhat frustrating, but like golf, the more I worked at it the smoother the experience became. the difficulties I have sometimes are using the applications and importing those apps into the blog site. But I will work at that too.

Thing 3: Those Avatars

The avatar business is fun and easy, unless you are very picky. I'm not too choosy so after spending 30 minutes, I settled for whatever I had produced. I was able to import Mr M. to the right page, but later when I checked the avatar would not appear. Guess I'll have to work on that.

Thing 2 : Habits

Ok, I am writing my first blog. It is supposed to be about habits and the article we all read about lifelong learning. Learning comes easy for me. Not that I am smart, but because I am curious. The article defined learning as "acquiring a new skill or language." What about acquiring new information? It may not be a skill, but it may simply answer a question. Is that not learning also??

The easiest of these habits for me will be the "play" habit. If you notice, I may be one of the last to get started on this project. That's because I have been playing. I play a lot now because I am retired and I have lots of play time. I still work some, but it is less demanding and it is work of my choosing. I enjoy my work so much I could almost consider it play.

Probably the hardest habit is the one about setting goals. I see many applications for this technology I am about to learn, that I don't have a clear goal in mind just yet. For now my goal is to complete the "whole picture" and then see how I can apply it to my work and my play!