Last Saturday I went to the Bronx Zoo with my friend, Diane. I took this picture of the lions. The male lion had been walking around before I took the picture. Oh well.

This is so Awesome!

Tonight I was trying to kill time before going home because I knew there were going to be roofers on top of my building and I didn't want to sit through the noise. So, I went to Barnes and Noble and I was just going to pick up a cross stitch magazine and then I remembered that The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney was released today. I went and "read" it. The graphics are so beautiful, I bought it. I don't have very many picture books. This one is so great. I put "read" in quotations because it's a wordless picture book and of course you can still tell the story by the pictures.

Adios Geocities....

Okay..I spent the last hour or so deleting my files on Geocities. I had my account since 1997, I think. I can remember it like it was only yesterday, everyone was all excited about getting to make a web site and they had to learn html! You used to find a "neighborhood" and your web site had a sort of street address. I found some really old pics of myself in my files I had saved there like this spiffy Glamour Shots pic of myself. Remember back in the late 80's how everyone just had to go to the mall and get their Glamour Shots? My mom went with me and she wore a western outfit in hers. I remember that because she has it hanging on the wall still at home.

After my post last night, I did some more thinking and I thought I would like to still have a web page so I can post things like my Yankee tickets and it can be a starting page to all the other junk I have out there. Oh sorry, this week we are calling it "cloud computing". I looked at some free web servers. First I tried Weebly. I didn't like it at all. I couldn't figure out how to just type in html. I know things are getting easier for people who don't know how to develop their own sites. But jeez. I gave up. Then I found Webng and it seemed to be retro enough for me. It's got a banner ad on top which is slightly less annoying than the side ad's that were on Geocities. Anyway, I went with that. So this is my new url: http://tocej.webng.com/. Nice!

Goodbye Summer

Well, I turned 40 a few weeks ago and I forgot to write it in my blog. I think I am much better at writing meaningless comments on Twitter. This has been a great summer. I have had so much fun going to the Yankee games. So far my record for Yankee games that I've attended is 10 and 2. So, that's really good. Now we just wait and see what kind of access us "partial plan" folks get to the playoffs.

I went to Chicago with my mom for ALA this year. That was really fun. See pictures on my flickr account.

Geocities is closing in October. I think I won't have a web page after that because I don't feel like paying for it. Maybe I will make my blog "my web page" and more people will read it.