I am like a little kid and do not know how to act. My girlfriend from the 6th grade came up to NY for the holiday. We're catching up and making music together on Sunday and Monday. Hopefully my squinty-eyed look will have improved by then (LOL).  Chicka sings better than I draw so I hope to have my meds completed tomorrow so I can get my trippy a$$ back to work (LMAO). I do not want to miss my deadlines anymore than I already have. I missed a weeks worth. For an anal retentive person like me that is a disaster. Seriously so.

BTW, we're jacking this blog if you want to come out to play today for lunch:

http://activerain.com/blogsview/1347255/laugh-out-loud-friday-warning 

I needed a good laugh. May have to replace the phone I just replaced... (sigh) Is there a 12 step program for destructive 3 year olds? Inquiring minds really want to know (LOL). Oh well... time to get out of bed and start stuff... like read a couple hundred e-mails and return a few calls. :-)

How Far Would You Go For Charity? (LMAO)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gallery/2009/nov/18/nude-london-tech-calendar?picture=355758073

Our British counterparts have taken some of the biggest names in the technosphere and gotten them to go all in to raise much needed funding for charitable works. Hats off to the men and women willing to bare all to get their points across. I want a charity calendar simply because some of my friends are in there. How can I not support my friends?

You know how I feel about my bay-bays... (Especially when they are being particularly fun and cheeky - LMAO)

If you do not have a sense of humor or fancy yourself prudish DON'T YOU DARE CLICK THAT LINK (LOL). Ooops... um... you might have clicked it first, eh? Sorry. My bad (ROTFL).

Okay, lets take another route: Before you write something negative and stupid in the comments sections because you didn't take me seriously when I said don't you dare click that link, or clicked it before you read that statement (LMAO) be advised the entire blogosphere is raving about it in every social media circle I've been in this morning so don't even think about being a prick on my post.

Social media is about being social with everyone, not just trolling for business or trying to keep people in what you deem is your personal version of a socially respectable box of decorum and civility. The cultural divide will always ensure that what one group considers being kind, another considers an absolute offense.

I'm looking to have fun for lunch... I have an expectation... The blurbs under the photographs for the calendar shots are quite snarky and the most remarkable shot is the guy at the conference because he actually did this and its not photoshoped in (ROTFLMAO). For the few highbrows itching to send off e-mails queuing for a response, may I remind you that I've seen more in some of your Facebook vacation photos than is revealed in this calendar. My humor is quite unrepentant on this matter (LMAO).

My post is public because the reporting on this event is public. Did I mention in my previous post I may be surprising you? Yup... I think I did. SURPRISE! More surprises to come (LOL). Psssst... DigiJoe is my fave shot after D-Pop's of course. ;-)

Wordy C on Career Advice from Gary Roth and Other Random Thoughts...

http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/539871

When you finish reading this link, substitute your social media accounts and any other on-line gig you have that has value and start collecting your info to update your wills. I am trying to make a catalog and trying to get my contracts in order. I have to pass them on to the wee people. I've been remiss in my duties... Got art? Got crafts? Got collectibles? Got books you authored? Got blogs you wrote? You may have created a lot more intellectual property than you think...

Did you know that your heirs can turn your entire blog collection into a series of books? Why wait? You can start that project right now if you want to. Break your blog down by subject matter and self publish that puppy or send it off in the correct format to the publishers of your choice to see if they want to publish your work for you. :-)

I bet I could pick out a couple of rants that have all the makings of a treatment for a made for TV movie (LMAO). The best part? I am in NYC. I am surrounded by movie studios. I can hound them for you (ROTFLMAO). Better yet. I'll hound you. Go do your version of the Blair Witch project. Seriously!!! Get busy! :-)

BMI has a fantastic website. I am very happy that the Ambassadors of Chaos Recording Studio artists have joined. Now I have to get the publishing contracts in. I have three that I have to sign for our little independent label. I've been high-jacking talented friends who want to do something beside enjoy singing in church. God bless them. They have been keeping me busy with their wave files and I am going to have a lot of fun creating neat stuff to blog about. :-)

Hmm... about my missing in action... I have been writing and deleting posts for the last five days. My blogging schedule is completely destroyed because I can't make up my mind regarding what I want to talk about. There is just too much going on: Kid drowned my cellphone so I can't get through to a crap-load of people (oh, the joys and woes of speed dial - LOL). Elevator got stuck, started taking the stairs, slipped, fell, cracked my arm and head. Pssssst... have you ever been concussed? One eye gets a really big pupil while the other eye gets a really, really small one and you can't see. Light hurts like hell. Seriously...

How did I manage to miss that little step? Blame it on the Flu. Ever notice when you sneeze your eyes automatically close? I guess I didn't notice that little factoid until I busted my a$$ running down the stairs (ROTFL). Why am I cracking wise? Well...why not? (LMAO)

If you can't make fun of yourself with your friends who the Hell can you spoof with? ;-)

Time to get back to work... the tutorials are calling. Expect the unexpected is the only hint and warning you are going to get from me... I am off my meds and a wee bit cranky (LOL). You may even say I am on the rag. ;-)

http://www.pr.com/press-release/191735

"X2X Free MP3 Converter 3.0 - Freeware to Convert Video/Audio to MP3" is the title but I hesitate to click that link. Chicken? Maybe... Um... Er... Okay, yeah (LOL).

I do like their press release, so I keep hovering over that download button. I've got great equipment with really cool software and keep thinking wouldn't it be nice to give that puppy a spin and see what it can do. Then I start thinking in the wrong hands that might not be such a good thing. Hell, anything in the wrong hands isn't a good thing (LOL). I'm starting to go off topic here because anyone can buy or try anything they want, so I digress...

If you try it let me know how you like it... Being a Curious George kinda gal I'm curious to hear about what you guys do with it. I'm thinking it might be useful to turn my REBarCamp digital film into an audio file. Yeah, I've already picked something to give it a test run with. I'm just chicken to be the first one to start testing that puppy out. I wanna hear from a user so I can quantify that press release (LOL). Go have fun. :-)

I have to get back into the studio but I figured I'd pop in and say hello and find out what yall have been up to while I am working. We're planning another road trip, so I have to get all of my backlogged posts up before I go. That is a lot of NY, MD, VA, NC and SC eye candy to chat about (LOL).

Four new tracks are being mastered so I have to get back to my session. We are on a tight schedule. My lead singer is coming in for Thanksgiving so I have to have the music finalized so I can send over the wave files for her review. Sometimes I arrange music in the "wrong key" and have to swap it out for another octave depending upon how she feels about the groove and the range she wants to sing in (LOL). I'm thinking since I owe you guys 5 posts I should see if we can wrap up the 5th song for my gal pal in SC. That would be lovely. I have the lead on 4 of the others so I really need to get my butt back in there and put my headphones back on. I like instrumentals but my fan mail is full of people waiting to hear us sing. So we're writing original content and singing a few public domain covers to keep them interested and happy. My iTunes project is mad fun. You guys should create your own. Seriously... :-)

YouTube is on the agenda for this afternoon (after I get the little minions from school - LOL). I also have clients I need to take house hunting so I may not be back to play until dinner time... Will be lurking off and on in the Rain and serial commenting during break time.

Enjoy your day, sweetie pies. I am having a lot of fun enjoying mine. Will teach you how to monetize your blog with music later. ;-)

I had mad fun and I have lots of eye candy from my business trips. Yeah, there were multiple excursions to keep my ADD occupied (LMAO).

Will show you something really neat off I-95 NB Exit 118 in VA and will also show you some shots from MD while running amuck with Margaret Rome. Yup, caught her twice on the way up and down my I-95 wanderings and hooked up with several other Rainers as well. I'm thinking of hitting CT, Boston and DC next. Seems I'm always passing through there on my way to somewhere else... Time to stop and get curious with my camera. I need a lot of shots for my book. Can't make 'em all New York. Seems I should go exploring and broaden my blogging horizons (LOL). :-)

Hmm... Depending upon where I go that may or may not be a good thing (LOL). Knowing me, I may need a vacation after that... Have you been to Canada? I wanna go to Canada. I can drive there. They're right next door (LOL). Canada has this Ice Hotel they create every single year and after seeing my girlfriends vacationing there I wanna go in the worst way.

Is it eye candy envy? Maybe... but for business purposes I shall sacrifice my alleged travel eye candy envy and say it is in the name of Localism posts for the Outside Blog Minion Report and will work my photography gig to make it so (LMAO). Yeah... I'm thinking I like that idea. I need to write about interesting places to visit in Canada (LOL). It is official: I shall be working on my eye candy coffee book when I eventually go, so there (LMAO). Besides, the shorties need a real vacation and since I am a notorious snow bunny what the hey - lets do Canada... (ROTFLMAO). I will only work 8 hours a day, then take off to play with the wee people, who may or may not be working for M&Ms. ;-)

Before I we eventually explore Canada I have to visit DC. Wanna see the Smithsonian? I know I do. A jog past the White House would be nice as well. I like architecturally interesting buildings and I am thinking I need a monster turtle run post to get that series up and running again. It's been a while... I still do 'em because I am addicted but I just haven't been posting the material. That's gotta change. Mikey wants these pictures off his computer (LOL). Rumor has it looking at thirty buildings before you get two shots of the kids is not exactly his idea of what should be in one's digital photo album when you whip that puppy out to post an update of the kids on Facebook. :-)

BTW, whatcha' doing? Right now, I am cooking up something with the group Fraishe Air in mind. I was thinking a tour from NY to SC in pictures would be mad cool. I owe you guys a Albany post, three SC posts and am busting my bahookies to get some new music done for the Localism jammie I just cooked up for that awesome building in Salters, SC...

For the final set of questions: I have over 4GBs of REBarCamp RDU film and photographs. Filled up two SD cards and the memory on my Nikon. Shall be making more YouTubes and posting some of the "How To Monetize Your Bog" digital seminar handouts. Seems the few people I burned CDs for didn't keep their mouth shut and now I got a bunch of whiny I-want-one-too/why-didn't-you-tell-me-you-had-more-giveaways crazy lady e-mails. Fine... will share on-line what I didn't have time to toss up on the projector.

Time to get to work. Will be lurking off and on and I am on the prowl for a good blog to jack tonight.

Wordy C will be answering more of your e-mails later so go get comfy and stay tuned. This may get very interesting because some of these puppies are off the hook. Seems I made quite an impression on a few of you at REBarCamp.

I am not sure of the exact moment I went from being "a" Google Whore to becoming "THE" Google Whore before the seminar started, but I thank you for the compliment and shall accept the moniker bestowed upon me by my readers and peers, plus update my G-Ho-Diary with the NC draft I didn't get to post while I was there. Sorry... was too busy having fun doing a squirrel rescue with SarahGray Lam and Patricia Caldwell. Yeah... got film and eye candy on that too (LMAO). What a fun story have we three got to tell you guys. Seriously (ROTFL). The Adventures of a Google Whore will continue as soon as I finish sorting through a couple of hundred photographs with the wee people for my G-Ho-Diary (LOL). ;-)

So much to blog about, so little time (LOL). Nothing like an eye candy break in your outside office to make exploring the East coast fun. If you have people living in your computer that you love, fun becomes MAD FUN! Oh boy, have I got stories to tell you guys when I settle in (LMAO). ;-)

Ever been on I-85 leaving NC to enter VA? What beautiful views... Here's a example from the NB I-85 side a few miles into VA. I have a lot more shots to share so the ride home may get very interesting. Got Rainers to meet, food to eat, FUN STUFF to show and talk about (LOL). What? You didn't hear the news? It appears I went from being "a" Google Whore to being "THE" Google Whore (ROTFLMAO). How fun is that? Very! (LOL). Enroute to Margaret Rome. We're plotting and planning to tag team at Triple Play (and possibly Inman as well). Yay! ;-)

Gotta run... Wonder what I'll show you off I-95 later... Stay tuned... :-)

The ActiveRain Club Chaos NC Sleepover

I was not kidnapped, held hostage, made to do things that I did not want to do... Instead, I stayed of my own free will (don't tell my husband - LOL) because for sure hanging out in The Southern Part Of Heaven IS HEAVEN!!! (LMAO)

Tune in for the movie. It's all on tape (Hahahahahaaaaaaaa!). Psssst... if I tell you what we really did I'd have to kill ya' (LOL). Just kidding. Was training them on how to make movies and music with the programs I use and they taught me how to cook chicken in a really tasty way. Food porn? You betcha! (LOL). I love my job as the Jr Ambassador from NY. Work can be mad fun, especially when you are editing excerpts to share. I have a lot of film and photographs (LOL). ;-)

BTW, several YouTubes are in progress and we will be reviewing REBarCamp RDU in a little while...

Time to hit the road. Will be blogging live from I-95 on my way home from NC. Looking forward to seeing my wee people and the hubby. Next stop: MD. :-)

I have been cracking up all day and having a wonderful time showing off your web pages, Life With Wee People, ActiveRain and holding attendees to my seminars hostage until they signed up for their free ActiveRain accounts (LMAO). They couldn't follow along with class without being a member because we clicked and visited quite a few of your blogs today.

We have new bay-bays to welcome to the Network. Here are a few photographs and a video excerpt from one of my classes. The first one was standing room only so they moved me to a larger conference room with comfy chairs. I had lots of give aways and we played the Wordy C version of Truth or Dare. Yes... there is film (LOL). ;-)

Club Chaos Is Going Live At REBarCamp RDU

Are you ready? Are you sure? We're Going Live in 5 at REBarCamp RDU (LOL). Elenor Throne, Heather O, Jeremy Blanton, Ann Allen, Suzie Blackmon, SarahGray Lam, Carol Smith and a host of other bay-bays are on location enjoying the social media revolution.

Wordy C will be making an appearance as a thought leader. How to monetize your blog and writing transparently are the topics. Will be highlighting the dynamics of socialization when we jack a blog. ;-)

Margaret Rome was kind enough to donate autographed copies of her book and we will be playing truth or dare to give them away during the writing transparency class.

Stay tune for more eye candy later... The bay-bays will be tag teaming with me to update you guys later. If you have anything you'd like to say to the NC attendees feel free to comment here. I will be showcasing your blogs to 300+ people. We are streaming live on-line so this may get very interesting. :-)

Wordy C is going on another Active Rain Road Trip

Thursday night is our Beer 4 Bloggers social media get together which will be held at the RallyPoint Sports Bar. There will be a national contest going on over there with the potential of winning $5000 so show up bay-bays! I expect to see lots of video cameras. You guys know how much I like eye candy and video sweets is a must. ;-)

Friday, November 6th is camp day! Be there at 8:30. Can you say all day event with 25 sessions? I'm high-jacking two of 'em and will be teaching (1) How to Write Transparently and (2) How to Monetize Your Blog. I may even be doing Confessions of a Google Whore during the interim while chatting about the Outside Blog Minion Report, Life With Wee People, Club Chaos, ActiveRain, Localism and our Jango Music project. Can't get any more or less transparent than that, eh? (LMAO)

Yup. Next page of Diary of a Google Whore will be live from North Carolina (LOL). ;-)

I'm getting ready to roll down I-95 to make some music, give Margaret Rome her Garmin back (after we have dinner - LOL) and do two classes in REBarCamp in NC.

Before I go, I have some business I need done. I don't want to waste time and do not believe my client should be waiting for me to return to get this done so if you are down to do a survey in Brooklyn, Kings County NY shoot me an e-mail. Gotta get back to the underwriter ASAP.

I will be making the call by lunch time. If you guys know someone you think is good, please feel free to endorse them so I can add them to my database. Spread the word, people. Wordy C needs a professional right now. :-)

Our iTunes project is doing well. So is our MP3 launch at Amazon.com which happens to have the wee people tickled pink because they love shopping on-line for movies there (LOL). We're getting some Internet Radio play and will eventually migrate to the college stations. I think the shorties wont know what to do with themselves when it eventually hits regular radio.

DJ Minions, eh? Gotta love kids... I wonder what we will cook up next... Working on a full album with a bit of help from some very talented friends (when my kids are not making off with the equipment - LMAO). So far it's been mad fun. Will try to return to my podcasting now that Noah and Stephen are both sleeping soundly (LOL). Hubby is playing World of Warcraft and I am answering what appears to be our first bit of fan mail. 

Nice... ;-)

 Life With Wee People: Minioncast? Where's My Podcast Files? Seriously...

One minute I'm setting up for a skype par-tay so I can spoof with Karen and Candice and give them a sneak preview of some music spam. The next minute my pending date with my gal pals is kicked to the curb because the wee people decide it's time to record silly songs in coded gibberish (LOL). I opened protective baggies and untied wiring for this? A short people broadcast in wee people foreign language?

I was originally thinking: (1) I cracked open the water proof case (which has really tight latches and is tough to open) so (2) I can record more digital tracks and (3) catch up on my blog posts by talking instead of typing. I then modified my thinking: Awwww... Aren't they cute? Let them have a couple of minutes and I'll erase what they are doing and get back to work after I go get my snack-age so I can settle in for some fun. Hmm... Being enterprising little men they erased my dumb a$$ first (LOL).

Psssst... Can you say stupid, stupid mommy? Wassup with the moron pills you been popping lately? Yo! You know they earned their term of endearment so what the heck were you thinking? Little minions should never be left alone with electronics. Especially if you have a three year old addicted to their ritual sacrifice(LMAO).

I bet they were thinking we should erase this to make room for our stuff, after all: (1) It's Noah's turn, (2) It's Stephen's turn, (3) It's Noah's turn, (4) It's Noah's turn, (5) It's Noah's turn, (6) It's Stephen and Noah's turn, (7) What the... hey, lady, get back... Go to bed Mommy, (8) Don't touch it... shhhhhh... (9) Noooooo Mommy... (10) NOOOoooOOOOoooOOOoo! (11) It's Noah's turn, (12) It's Stephen's turn...

See where this is going? Can't podcast. Can't blog. Can't check the e-mail... Having all sorts of withdrawal thoughts and wondering why one hour of their time feels like three of mine (LOL).  

Will Wordy C ever get her podcast done with Candice? Who knows... Right now I'm wiping the scribble off the wall to the right compliments of Stephen the Blur Minion and watching my miniature technogeeks get freaky with the mics (LMAO). I bet Karen and Bloggy-Anna would love them if they got up close and personal with 'em. We are all such a bunch of Curious Georges in my house. Watching them create and manipulate wave files is fun.

Why are they still wake? Hmm... Why are kids ever still wake? (LOL) No school tomorrow. We're voting. Oh well... Mr Autistic and Mr PDD-NOS are having mad fun so I guess their easily amused mother will let 'em keep the mixer dancing with audio output lights... Never know... Their giggles may make for stellar ringtones down the road (LOL). :-)

Will I ever post a Minioncast? Hmm... Wouldn't that be interesting? Maybe... Maybe not. Depends upon the conversation and how shrill Stephen decides to voice his Daffy Duck syndrome of screaming MINE!!! (LOL)

Am I teasing and keeping you guessing?

Abso-freaking-lutely (LOL). ;-)  

Life With Wee People: From Pre-School to Kindergarten... Or Is It A to Z ? (LOL)

Stephen the Blur Minion is having a very big day. It's Halloween and shorty has tasted every type of candy Big Daddy Minion brought into the house. The birthday party starts at four but I kinda don't want to interrupt his nap on the table. Seems he fell out after wrecking the bedroom while watching "Open Season." They play that movie at least three times a day. Noah has it scripted (LOL).

Normal mothers would never let their three year olds sleep on the table... but I'm not normal. I only pick him up if he falls asleep on the floor or laundry bag (LOL). "The Table" happens to be one of his fave spots. Ain't messing with him when he's in his happy place. Ever deal with a cranky PDD-NOS kid? You wouldn't mess with him either if you knew what I knew about Baby Taz (LMAO). ;-)

Nap time is sacred... :-) Will wake the little minion up to dress him as a ninja later. Mikey wants Ninja Eye Candy (LOL). This should get very interesting. Will be blogging live from a Halloween Birthday Party later. Never saw that one coming (LOL). Sad thing is I really wanna stay on my keyboards (LMAO). Oh well... kids gotta socialize, eh?

Update: Pulling out the Jap uniform (LOL). Less than four hundred people around the entire world own one of these. ;-)

Diary Of A Google Whore... 10-31-2009

The cool thing about running in the rain to clear your head is that once it is clear you have plenty of room to fill it with sensations and impressions. Sometimes it is the Etymology of the word "Whore" or "Prostitute" that catches your attention while you jog by the bus stop and notice shenanigans going on in a parked car (ROTFL). According to Wikipedia: ‘To prostitute is derived from a composition of two Latin words: (preposition) pro and (verb) statuere. A literal translation therefore would be: ‘to expose’, ‘to place up front’. Hmm... when you take the sex slant out of it, being a very narrow and specific type of innocuous whore may actually be quite useful (LOL). 

We all know what Google is so I shall not waste time defining it. But what is a "Google Whore?" Hmm... Some might say a Google Whore is a person (like me) hell bent on Google Domination that advocates using Google to get what you want (LMAO). Think about it: (1) We are writers. (2) We all want exposure. (3) We market ourselves and companies, soliciting strangers who are seeking something we may be able to give them when they search for professional products and services...

Question: Don't we all want our websites to show up on page one of stellar search engines? I know I do. My search engine of choice happens to be Google (LOL).

With all things in life the virtual road you choose will determine your final page rank destination. Being addicted to Google Juice, I blog in the Rain and happily advocate pimping Outside Blogs because my three outside blogs feed my insatiable Google Domination cravings. I like being one of the three Queens of Chaos and love the fact that if you were to Google "Club Chaos" my bay-bays in ClubChaosAgents.com and the ActiveRain Group: Club Chaos are rocking cyberspace with their link love. You will discover both sites are happily entrenched on page one of Google within the top 15 slots. How cool is that? Very. Bet you wish you were a Google Whore (LOL).

Of course, the connotation suggests there is a dark side to Google Whoredom. Why don't we go to the Urban Dictionary to find out more information about the digital divide's "oldest profession" and sometimes biggest competitive complaint (LOL). In the meantime, I'm going to go back to making more music spam and creating original content so I can solicit the public for intellectual and nonsensical discourse while I pimp my blogs (LMAO). I might even sell some real estate while I am at it... :-)

If you need help setting up your outside blogs, shoot me an e-mail. With a quirky mentor like me you will never write the same again. Not if you join the Google Domination agenda at Club Chaos (LMAO). Wanna have some fun? Stop sitting on the fence and go get an Outside Blog. You can't be discovered if you are not being indexed by the search engines. Seriously...  ;-)

Which has me completely distracted (LOL). Being a smart Rainer, I asked two smarter Rainers to rep the hubby. :-)

I believe in hiring professionals and getting the hell out of their way once I retain 'em and ask for help. When we are done it is going to be a mad fun blog post. The whole team is from Club Chaos, so, need I say more? (LOL)

Our mortgage broker is a Rainer too, but he barely blogs so I'm mentoring him. He's already working on multiple AR referrals from me and I can't imagine using someone else for my family's project because Dude can close in less than two weeks if you give him what the underwriter needs. I have a need for speed 'cause I wanna impress the hubby. I'm trying to get him to get his license so the RE bet is on (LMAO).

Will Wordy C win it? How can I not with Rainers like you guys at my disposal (ROTFL). :-)

Wanna see what happens if you put a bunch of fun Rainers on a project from multiple states? Hmm... I bet you do. Stay tuned... I will be invading a couple of states to collect some interesting closing escrow eye candy (LOL). Mikey's first social media closing is going to be a real hoot.

I wonder what mine will be like when I get around to it... Yup. Investing the Donald Trump way (LOL). Hope my offer doesn't get the shotgun treatment (LMAO).

In the meantime I have to finish Karen's music spam before my e-mail blows up. Yeah, I know, it's been a couple of days. How dare I work and interfere with my blogging schedule (LOL). Promises, promises... gotta keep the promises. Especially when the projects are mad fun and silly (LOL).

Time to go to work. Will be lurking... ;-)

You can stop the text assault now and don't even think of touching my e-mail (LOL). Will write a serious post. Promise. I have too much nice eye candy not to. Working on the photo montage and will share some serious information about the committees I found interesting. Did I mention I brought a lot of material back with me? Hmm... oversight on my part if I didn't because I did. Seriously...  I did. Got the skinny on a lot of interesting stuff and I will do a series of  Localism posts in a few... Gotta deliver a fax to Queens Village  before I settle in to serial blogging. I need a brick and mortar signature. Running out the door into the rain again (LOL). ;-)

Live From The New York State Capitol, Albany NY

This is the park directly across the street from the Capitol, Education and Legislative Buildings. There are some really neat monuments in there (and a grave) which I shall show you guys later (LOL).

While wandering about the facade of the educational building I noticed you get a really cool view of the Capitol (on your left) and the Legislative buildings (on the right). I enjoyed getting up close and personal regarding how people start with an idea, bring it to a lawmaker, then suffer through the journey the inner circle describes as the legislative process only to discover a good and bad idea have equal opportunity to be made into laws (LMAO).

Did I get an interesting education today? Yup. Shall be blogging about it very shortly. It really is a very cool and useful process. The problem lies in the fact that not enough of us are getting involved. We appear to be reactive rather than proactive. Lawmakers love proactive constituents... Hmm... I may have to make a new set of friends up here (LOL). BTW, AR makes an excellent think tank. Lots of great minds with good ideas to share. How could I not? (LOL)

I took 187 photographs during my visit so sorting through them all my take a while. Wanna see the inside of the Assembly/State Building? They have cool hearing rooms, art, lots of marble everywhere (except the ladies room - bummer - no cool bathroom shot - LOL).

Was driving 171.6 miles worth it? Abso-friggin-lutely. I am sooooo doing this again (LOL). On the hunt for food. Will get back to blogging live from Albany in a couple of hours. Still making friends, trading business cards and bragging about my bay-bays (LOL). ;-)

Looking forward to poking around upstate. Leaving in 15 minutes. This should be very interesting. Too bad it's raining. Then again, diffused lighting can make for some very interesting pictures. Hopefully it will clear up by 10 and traffic isn't too bad. We shall see... 

In the meantime, got your e-mails and shall answer them once I get settled in. Wordy C answering e-mail is always fun for me (even when I'm cranky - LOL).

Why am I cranky? Was stuck in the elevator with my neighbor, no one answered the alarm going off and my cell phone kept dropping the signal (too much metal). Finally got through to the hubby and a neighbor. Hubby thought I was kidding and took his time while the neighbor hunted down maintenance. Hmm...

Maintenance kept bouncing the elevator up and down until it finally landed on a floor where the door would open. :-)

All's well that ends well. Too bad it messed up my schedule and sunny disposition (LOL). Yes, there is irony in that statement (LMAO). See you guys later... ;-)

2PM UPDATE: I have a lot of eye candy and am playing in a thunderstorm. Blogging live from Albany is going to be fun  (LOL).