#33 Relocating w/Online Maps

I looked into a few of the sites, but found HAR to be the most helpful. I was amazed to find how many homes are in forclosure (sad). Another, reason I liked HAR was because of the map that you are able to click on and narrow down your search. I started by checking into and area that my husband and I are planning on retiring to in the future and I found it to be great place to find out about locations of shopping, parks, police stations, etc. Some other info. I thought to be very helpful was the tax record, mortgage calculator, and I loved the photo gallery. Just for fun I decided to check into the time share and found a fabulous place that I could probably only visit through this site (but, hey we can always dream.....- ML#7918165)!

I decided to look into some new homes and found the site for mapping out walking distance to be really neat. I thought it to be pretty cool to be able to put in an address and a map will appear with all of the major places within walk distance and then some. That to me seemed to be the easiest to learn because of the way you could zoom all around on the map till you found your location.

#32 Current Events

After looking through 100 Things to do, I chose the one on music because it is something I often search for, especially concerts and sports events. So, say for instance you were looking for upcoming concerts to your town for Bette Midler you could go to the following web site www.buytickets247.com/concerts.cfm

I tried to explore the 3 different sites, Global Incident I found to be frightening and not very interesting and National Atlas I could not bring up at all. I did find Terra Server to be of interest because of the historic sites. The map I found of most interest was that of Ellis Island (my grandparents came to the U.S. through Ellis Island). ABOVE RIGHT is a photo that I have of Ellis Island.

#31 Have Map, Will Travel

I checked out all 3 map sites, but went with Google Maps because I already have an account with google. I created a map of a place that my husband and I plan on retiring to in the future. I was amazed how I could get so much info. on one very small town. I have placed markers in several locations and I am looking forward to how many more I can put in as the years go by and to see just how many will change. Pretty cool stuff, I did not know this was available. Once again, thank you.

#30: Take A Load Off Our Drives

I am pretty familiar with the S, P, & Z drives on our computer. We utilize the P drive for all of our training hours. I find it to be a fantastic place to keep track of all my required training hours. I did find out something new about the S drive, I did not know that the "S" stands for scratch drive and I did not know we were able to add files to the "S" & "Z" files. This is helpful to know for future projects at work. I enjoyed this months training because I thought that I was always well organized with all of my computer files, but now I have learned a few more organizing tips.

#29 Email

At the start of My 23 Things I did create a personal e-mail account to be used just for that related purpose. I did that just to keep my work training seperate from my personal account and my work account. I would strongly encourage anyone who is just starting the training to do the same. It has been very helpful keeping them seperate. I have always been a firm believer in keeping things organized and disgarded if not needed and have always practice that on all my interactions with a computer, including work and personal accounts. I must say I did find it helpful to learn about "yousendit". I know that will be something I will use in the near future for both personal and work. I also took the Netiquette Quiz and scored a 70% (7 out of 10), I guess thats not to bad for someone who has never been in a chat room.

#28 Spring Cleaning

First, let me start off by saying I was very shocked to hear that it cost the taxpayers 20 grand to store files on the library computers!!! That is a real wake up call to spring clean on our computers. I found it helpful to keep in mind the 2 minute guideline and to deal with one item at a time. I also, liked the idea of the Tickler File for organizing your paperwork (43 folders - 12 for each month and an additional 31 folders for each day). This will come in handy with all of my un-organized hard copies and also with my husbands business, which I work part time at.

I looked into all of the online calendars and even started one with google, pretty cool, I think it will be a big help with my busy, busy day's. I liked the Ta-Da- List, especially the get inspired section, where you can create your own list (books to read, bills to pay, web links to visit). ALL VERY helpul, a big thank you!!!

#27 Podcast Challenge

I have not had an oppurtunity as yet to phone in for the podcast, but I am looking forward to doing it in the near future. It sounds pretty neat!!!