It is always nice to come up to the farm. It is a very nice change of pace. I sat working last night and it was quite so quiet I could hear the cat outside walking in the snow. Unlike my apartment in the city where I can hear the people walking around upstairs, sirens of passing police cars and fire trucks, even the horns from passing trains. I guess growing up out in the sticks and then moving into the city has me longing to move back. The only downside to living in the sticks is that there really aren’t a lot of jobs out there and to get to the cities where there are jobs is quite the drive. Maybe someday when I am old and rich I can move back to the sticks where it is quiet and less busy.

It was great to spend time with the family and see all the little ones running around while the old folks chatted about everything under the sun. One cant talk about thanksgiving with out talking about the great food. I don’t think I will need to eat for at least a week. I figure I can splurge 3 times a year, and Thanksgiving is one of them.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Now as we look forward towards Christmas and the New Year we can definitely give thanks for the many great things in our lives over the past year.

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Over the last few weeks I have become addicted to some really cool websites. I thought I would spend a little bit of time talking about each one and why I have become addicted to them.

MyBlogLog.com is a blogging community where members can keep track of who is reading their blogs as well as find other blogs they are intrested in. Not only is it a great source of traffic for your blog it also helps target readers to your blog that share in the same type of common interests. I have spent a lot of time watching who is reading my blog and seeing what they are blogging about. I have really not figured out how I have gotten addicted do it but its great. I would recommend anyone who has a blog sign up for an account and watch your community of friends and fans grow.

Technorati is another blogging type community where you can connect with people who share the same common interests as well as create a group of friends and fans around your blog.

StumbleUpon has to be one of the greatest creations of the web 2.0 era. StumbleUpon is a database of sites that users have submitted that they have liked it. I currently have a plugin for my FireFox browser that allows me to click a button and randomly chooses a site to display based on categories I chose when I signed up.

I would recommend that everyone go try out these sites if you are a blogger or just simply wanting to find ways to help kill time.

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BadWebDesign.org was launched this weekend.

This site is simply for fun and to see where it takes me. BadWebDesign.org is a collection of the best of the worst sites on the web. Check it out and see all the really bad sites.

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