Note: This is a journal entry — it was written on paper or on my computer, then transferred to my website, maybe years later.

Learned another new word today: Blog.  It means some sort of web-log or online journal. Of course I used to have one before the word existed…!!!

This weekend I moved edithfrost.com away from my pal Carl Steadman’s server and onto a new account I got at BinaryBlocks.com.  It was easy!  I paid $35 for a year’s service on what they call a BabyBlock account, which is 50 megs.  My site currently only uses a little over 8 megs, so I’m fine with that.  I then went to Network Solutions and went through the e-mail routine to change the ISP.  Now it’s been a couple of days so the website is live, and the edithfrost.com e-mail address is working too.  I need to write Carl and tell him to delete my old account.

Over the past few months I’ve been helping Rosemary (John’s mom) get motivated to move her website away from Netcrafters.  That’s some kind of boutique webshop, and they’re charging her like fifty bucks a month to host a site that only takes up ~800k!!  So I’m telling her to move her site to BinaryBlocks.  I sure hope I don’t end up having problems with them… but I think no matter what, she’ll be better off than where she’s at now.  I’m going to move her site for her and temporarily take over janitorial webdesign duties until I can get her accustomed to editing her own pages with Dreamweaver or something like that.  She doesn’t know a lot about computers and might require some handholding… but I’ll get her there somehow.  I’ll do it myself if worst comes to worst and she can’t learn to be her own webmaster (or hire someone else).

Speaking of which, John Whitney finally has a website of his own!!  I finally sat down and taught him some of the basics of HTML, and he put up a little mini-site on Tripod.  He even has a downloadable MP3 up there, which is more than I can say about my own site at the moment.  :-|

I made a couple of care packages that John sent out for me yesterday… one was to Lucie and one to Scott Hartley.  Scott’s package has a check for $40, to finally reimburse him for sending me the fucking t-shirts I left in Kansas City in September!!  Plus a small pile of CDs for him & Jolie’s listening pleasure.  Gave him both Product Music compilations, and Kali Bahlu, and Shooby Taylor.  Lucie’s package was for her birthday which is coming up on Thursday.  I gave her a Jimmie Osmond CD I’d made, plus the entire 3-CD "Singing Science" set.  Jimmie Osmond is a special memory of our childhood, and Singing Science is something I found on the web that I thought the kids might enjoy.  I plastered both packages with Hello Kitty stickers, as is my custom.  :-)