I haven't had much sitting down time for writing stuff, but really quickly (I hope) I have a moment and wanted to relate some things.

First, my smart, smart little daughter (who is five years old now) and I were playing a little computer game the other day. In it, the main character (PuttPutt, if the name means anything for you) loses several items through a time portal, and is told by his wacky scientist friend (who created the time portal) that the time portal cannot be closed until all items have been returned to their present time.

After a series of age-appropriate obstacles, PuttPutt is able to retrieve all of his items, returns to his own time, and the time portal is closed for good. However, in the course of his travels, PuttPutt acquires an oil can from the Old West that he used for various things. The oil can travels with him to the present, even unto the closing of the portal; and Joanna had the presence of mind to ask why the oil can did not need to be returned to *its* time as well. Personally, I had never given it any thought -the emphasis of the game, after all, was to return the four *original* items lost, and not any that had been acquired along the way. But her question was valid, and I told her so. What a smart girl!

On another matter, little Michael (coming up on twenty months old) is becoming a gadget junkie. We went to New Year's Eve party at a friend's house (which was a beautiful home, by the way!), and Michael was getting into all of the electronic gear he could find. First, we got him away from the upstairs computer, then from the downstairs computer, and then from the phone. But when he walked out of the bathroom holding their bathroom scale - with digital display - I just shook my head and laughed!!

I keep getting the sensation that there was something else that I was going to write, but nothing else is actually bubbling to the surface , so I suppose it will wait for another time. Bye!

Here I am, FINALLY updating my blog again. Think of this as a "Truth in Advertising" testimony (it does, after all, tell you "NOToftenupdated" right there in the title...).

Not that I have anything of earth-shaking importance to say right now. Over the past ten months or so, I have thought about adding a blog entry now and then; and then I would think, "This isn't really important enough to break the silence, is it? I haven't even written about the move or the new house or anything like that." And another potential blog would burn out upon entry into the blogosphere.

So, time passed. And it seemed as if entries would need to be even more spectacular and amazing to merit publication... Well, I finally realized that nothing would ever be as grandiose as it "needed" to be. The only thing for it was to jump in and let the first shock reverberate as it will.

So here it is. Wah-hoo. A new entry. A fresh start. Another day.

Have you noticed how there seem to be two camps of bloggers? There are those who write (and write and write and write...) all their own material, and then there are those who want to send you to some link or other. I'm not saying anything about either one; just making an observation. And of course, there is the rare breed who does both....

I'm a hum-drum writer type, for the most part. I thought momentarily about being a linker, but then I thought about all the trouble it would be to go through all the other stuff out there to find just the right one to link to, the one that expresses just who I am at that moment. I'd rather write; it seems easier to me.

Okay, I have broken the silence, but it's late and I don't want to write too long because I'm tired (I get that way when it gets late; has that ever happened to you? I also get goofy - oh, wait, no.... that's just me anyway).... Hopefully, this will begin a new era in "Kathy blogging." Zippity-doo-dah!!! Good night.