Road trip!

In an early effort to deal with my dismay at still not knowing my employment future, I am planning free and local road trips. I have a burning desire for the quirky, the unusual, the slice of life that we humans cut out for ourselves in these here woods and cities. Here's what I'll be using:

Roadside America: a searchable site of quirk. Like Boston's ether statue, or the site of the molasses flood.

Find-A-Grave: Speaks for itself - good to look up the creators of the quirkiness, and find those final resting places.

Roadfood: Everyone's gotta eat - and what better way to experience the lay of the land than with the food found therein?

I also suspect lighthouses and mental asylums will rank high on the list of must-sees. Let's hope Maille has inherited her mother's need for travel!

Why Facebook is For Old Fogies

from TIME magazine..

1. Facebook is about finding people you've lost track of.

2. We're no longer bitter about high school.

3. We never get drunk at parties and get photographed holding beer bottles in suggestive positions.

4. Facebook isn't just a social network; it's a business network.

5. We're lazy. We have jobs and children and houses and substance-abuse problems to deal with. At our age, we don't want to do anything. What we want is to hear about other people doing things and then judge them for it.

6. We're old enough that pictures from grade school or summer camp look nothing like us. These days, the only way to identify us is with Facebook tags.

7. We have children. There is very little that old people enjoy more than forcing others to pay attention to pictures of their children. Facebook is the most efficient engine ever devised for this.

8. We're too old to remember e-mail addresses. You have to understand: we have spent decades drinking diet soda out of aluminum cans. That stuff catches up with you. We can't remember friends' e-mail addresses. We can barely remember their names.

9. We don't understand Twitter. Literally. It makes no sense to us.

10. We're not cool, and we don't care. There was a time when it was cool to be on Facebook. That time has passed. Facebook now has 150 million members, and its fastest-growing demographic is 30 and up. At this point, it's way cooler not to be on Facebook. We've ruined it for good, just like we ruined Twilight and skateboarding. So git! And while you're at it, you damn kids better get off our lawn too.