Avatars

Avatars ... hmm. Hadn't seen the likes of them since cataloging a religion title back in, oh, say, 1978. Please know that this was before I went to Library School. (SEE ... I told you ... she's older than dirt!) But I felt no compelling need to add an avatar to my Yahoo! account, nor did I see myself as a social networking misfit for being without one. Truthfully, I might never have ever considered doing this, were it not one of The Things.

So, after spending much more time than I wanted to trying to fashion myself as a Simpsons character ... only to lose it because of some bug in the beta browswer on our home computer ... I "fetched" this adorable little faerie dog from Iconator.com. Hey, it works. Cute as a button and he/she/it can be my personal representative anytime. The hardest part was getting the image to correctly insert into this post. But, I confess, I'm not done with avatars yet. That "Yearbook Yourself" link bears some looking into, and I'll introduce myself to Mashable soon. And now it's time for some low-tech activity. It's Saturday, my husband's done mowing, and the driveway needs sweeping. After all the hours spent in screen time at our jobs and in our leisure, we do recognize that there's life outside the Internet.