In no particular order

Reasons why it has been quiet around here:

1. I haven’t had anything to say. That’s a good reason. Rare, but true.

2. The lad came home and brought his whirlwind with him. It is so good to have him back.
a) he is definitely in love.
b) 1 hr. phone call with her last night. He’s going to burn through his cell phone minutes in a week!

He informed me yesterday that he chose not to sign on to the newest drama production. Why? Because it will interfere with his Miss Ashley phone time. I must thank (or congratulate) this girl at the earliest opportunity!

3. I’ve been doing other things. Fer instance… Rainlender. Call me surprised. I’ve had this thing on my computer for...oh...months. I’ve never really paid much attention to it for one reason or another. But over the weekend I started poking around under the hood. Oh, it’s a robustly featured desktop calendar. I believe it can also be coordinated with Outlook. With alarms and reminders. It’s a tiny application that takes up few resources and doesn’t appear to conflict with anything. I’ve had no difficulty with it for lo these many months just sitting there being a calendar.

However, over the weekend, as I said, I started poking around to see what it could do. Here is a current screen shot (pop-up image) of what it looks like on my desktop. The items displayed are a To Do List, an event list of what’s scheduled for the next 7 days, and 4 months of calendars (how many you want to display is totally up to you). The thing is skinnable with umpty zillion skins available—links to skin sites provided at the Rainlender site. Skin shopping (free) is half the fun.

But, utility wise, it’s pretty slick. Events can be color coded. The calendar skins are pretty full featured, but if you’ve had experience coding web sites, it’s easy to start hacking the skins to customize them. Which, of course, I did—to add more event colors. Well, actually, the calendar skin in the screen shot is a total hack, but that’s just me having fun.

Anyway, it’s the best little (free) calendar/to do list/events list program that I’ve come across so far. Way better than ones you have pay for, in my opinion.