I've been on Facebook for a couple of years now...almost since the very beginning. I pretty much hated it from the start...being a solitary old curmudgeon means you try to avoid new social entanglements, not seek them out...and FB was just a wee bit too personal for me.

I have to admit that I have finally given it a fair shake and I'm hooked. Maybe it's because of the vast majority of formerly computer-illiterate folks from my past who are finally catching on to the use of the PC in their real lives, or maybe it's just because I can spend only a few minutes at a time online and FB makes it count.

I have been getting in touch with friends, colleagues, and family members that I lost touch with years and years ago. I'm able to share my thoughts, tastes and ideas with the world in just a few snippets at a time. And almost every website makes it way easy to share links via FB these days, so it's a snap to use.

Even my wife, Carol has been using it (after I set her up with a page, of course)!

What's missing? Most of my dA friends!

That's right...in the online world, you folks have become the only people I actually go out of my way to keep in touch with, and I don't even know most of your names! Some of you probably don't even have FaceBook pages yet, so even if I do know your name I still can't find you. That makes it hard for me to share my wit, wisdom, bad puns, cool photos, and other smart-ass remarks...and you know how bad I am about having to update more than one site at a time (that's why my journal here has been so sparse lately),

So....

I'm going to make it easy for you to find me! Just come see me at [link] and add me to your friend list. Be sure to include a message with your dA handle in it so I know it's you though! You'd be surprised how many requests I get from "lonely midwestern housewife looking for a friend and wearing only the smallest of bikinis to show you how serious I am about it all" and I generally delete them before my PC can catch an STD (that's a Serial-port Transmitted Disease, you know).

See ya there!