Ma and Pa's Blog » old age http://hickeyhoo.net/mtnest random snippets from our world Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:14:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Facebook Musings http://hickeyhoo.net/mtnest/2010/02/24/facebook-musings/ http://hickeyhoo.net/mtnest/2010/02/24/facebook-musings/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:19:00 +0000 Ma http://hickeyhoo.net/mtnest/?p=1588 Since joining the ranks of FB zombies, I was still a little baffled by its appeal, but then I realized why  it’s been a long time since we updated the blog.  Facebook has sort of taken the place of the stream of consciousness posting that sometimes occurs here.  It’s a lot easier to write a random thought, no frills, over in FB than to compose a blog entry.  And, after all, do we really need an entire blog  to say, essentially, “Holy Freaking God, When Is This Damned Winter Going To Be Over?”, which is pretty much what our Ohio February lives are like.   So I guess the FB appeal is to let our “friends” in on the minutiae of our humdrum lives without the burden of worrying about composition.

Not that this is particularly well-composed, but still.

I’m sure we’ll post more blog entries when we can get some sun and fresh air and blow away the winter brain-fog that grips us every February.   Oh, and as my silvery stripe of growing out gray hair becomes more visible, I’ll be sure and share the horror of accepting my 60 year old hair with grace and dignity :-D .

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