last night my clothes dryer almost died.......while it still tumbles clothes properly, it no longer heats them to dry as it used to. i'm sure fixing it involves spending time with the repairperson, grumbling and spending money - things with which we have no desire to engage in....... does this relate to the ds blog, you ask?
well, here's the segueway. in my household of 4 people my clothes dryer is rather indispensible. it gets me to thinking about things on my computer or on websites that i can't live without any longer.... here's a random list:
>email - how can we communicate with anyone far away or even close without the convenience of email now? the world feels so much smaller - dare i say closer - with email as a vehicle. my example is our Japanese exchange student. she returned home and promptly emailed us. instead of having to wait a week or so for the mail, we now know she's tired but home safely.
>sharing pictures. this has been a great option to share with far away relatives and i appreciate the ability to do so. i might even go out on a limb this holiday season and create a slide show to email to loved ones instead of the old-fashioned USPS/postage stamp method. (p.s. this is supposed to be a more "green" thing to do, too)
>finding things! the other night my daughter needed graph paper......but none was found in the house. she had two options - wait for her brother to come home or hand draw graph paper :) a mini-watt went off in my head and a few minutes later, i was printing graph paper from a website - wow!
>recipes ---- this probably goes into the category of "sharing" as many things can be shared on the internet, for good and bad. but one of the things i like to do is to read recipes. i am now finding great websites and can put together words like "chocolate" and "chicken" to find all manner of exciting experiments for my family to try!
>being a closet Apple user, i love their desktop function where your program icons reside toward the bottom of the page. no matter how many windows i have open, i can always go to the bottom of my screen and pull up the application i want. nifty.
what internet/website things are indispensible to you?
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