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I thought about calling this the evils of Facebook. Oh, don’t get all…whatever, on me. I’m referring to the way you can find yourself lost in the land of Facebook and not even realize how much time has gone by. Of course there are other things that have this effect as well.

I recently signed on to Facebook. Mostly because I was being told that it has some features and functions that would work really well for this site I support for this organization. So I figured I’d better sign up and check it out so I could see what they were talking about.

It’s quite amazing. As soon as I filled in a bit of information I was being suggested to add all these people as friends. Amazingly enough, a few of them are people I know and even some I went to school with. It’s turned out pretty cool too because a couple of them accepted my friend request. I’ve reacquainted with someone I’ve known since grade school. Nice treat.

I find myself spending a little too much time going through the suggestions of people to add to my friends. I even had to get out a year book or two to see if I know that person or not. What I’ve discovered is that the sight will suggest people from the school you went to from around the same time you were probably there. It’s pretty cool programming and social engineering. 

Then there are the little casual games. The can get addictive. Especially those puzzle games. Like the gem or jewel ones. Holy cow. I’ve spent way too much time trying to get the highest score. I didn’t know I was that competitive. 

It’s a great time sink if I’m bored. I can be on there playing a silly little game or surfing through suggested friends. Or looking at the profiles of the people already on my friends list. Hmm. 

There are other ways to fritz away time. I’ll bet you have some good ones. Things that you do because you just want to do it for a little while and that little while suddenly turns into a big while. Got a favorite time sink or thing you do that fritzzes away your time? Share. 

Cheers

Originally published at: suguayproductions.com/joomla which has been discontinued.

After my adventures with vacation in New Mexico and Oklahoma I got to thinking about what my next adventure should be. I’ve been thinking about the places I’ve been that I would like to go back to and then all the places I would like to see that I’ve never seen before.

There are quite a few choices out there. I live in Florida so a fairly close and short adventure would be to take another trip to the Florida Keys. I’ve been a few times, always with someone. We’ve always stayed in the Middle Keys area and driven on down to Key West to see things. So I’m thinking about taking a long weekend, not this one, and drive all the way down to Key West and stay in a Bed and Breakfast there. That would be cool. I should write that down.

A little farther away,

involving more money and time and a plane ticket is San Diego. I used to live in the area. In fact I graduated High School there oh so many years ago. I’ve been back once since then, just for a weekend when I was living in Phoenix. Something I was doing earlier today got me thinking how I miss the Pacific Ocean. Yes, I live near the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf Coast. It’s really not the same. Here we have a reef some miles off the coast that keep the Ocean’s fury at bay except when there’s a tropical system passing by. The waves are often small and not very predictable. And along the shore it’s flat with a horizon of mostly hotels and businesses. I remember larger waves and cliffs in some places in Southern California. Oh and COLD water. Here, at this time of year, it’s almost bath water. What is up with that? Hmm. So maybe I’ll make a visit to San Diego again soon. I have no idea where to stay. I guess I’ll have to start doing some research. We’re coming up on the winter holidays season soon so it may have to wait until after the New Year. That should give me some time to get things figured out. I can’t wait to see Old Town and Balboa Park again. They are still there aren’t they?

I even have a couple of places out of the country that are on my list. Ok. I have a few. Some of which I think others will think are odd. Oh well. So my partial list includes, Sweden, Germany, England, Ireland, Andalusia, Spain, Turkey, Greece, the Carpathian Mountains, France, Denmark, and Italy. I haven’t really give thought to which Asian countries I’d like to visit, nor the South American places or African. Maybe because there are already so many places on my list that I’m not sure I’ll get to them all. I’m sure I’ll be adding to my list and it will include places I hadn’t thought of before. 

I’m thinking of making Sweden a top priority. For a long time I’ve felt this draw to visit Sweden. I had a Swedish penpal when I was in school and even took Swedish language lessons from a private tutor for a while. I know many people there, or I think many people there also speak English. However, I think it would be good to refresh and improve my Swedish language skills, or at least my vocabulary. I’ll probably only be able to go for a week maybe two at a time so I think I’m going to want to find an area I want to concentrate on. I guess I could find a tour group sort of thing. I have a feeling after I go the first time that I will want to go back to see more. So I could either make the first trip an over-view sort of trip or I could just start in say the southern area or Stockholm and then the next trip see another area. Any suggestions?

There’s always so much to see and do. I think it’s time I want to start doing that. 

Cheers

Originally published at: suguayproductions.com/joomla which has been discontinued.