New blog address

Time for another change. After Trish spent many hours helping me get my blog started, Mark informed me that he was unable to receive my blog in China. It could be that he lives in rural China, or it could be that the China government internet monitors have shut down many message boards and blocked Twitter and Flickr. They wanted to silence social networking around the time of the 20th anniversary of the bloody Tienanmen Square last week. They were rounding up dissidents and shipping them out of town (one adventure I do not want to participate in). So in order to avoid potential problems, my son Matt decided I would do better on a different site. Remember that I can do my little computer programs but if I run into problems I am helpless without my kids around. So on Saturday night I watched Matt set up my new site which was quite fun to see him navigate so quickly from screen to screen. I am sending my new address www.littlejoanie.com and hope that you will follow me on my new journey to China. Just when I thought I knew all there was to blogging now I have to stretch my brain to learn more. Mark was able to bring up this site so I think I should be good to go.

Lunch with Trish

Today I drove down to Mountain View Hospital in Payson to have lunch with Trish. She is doing a four week internship for her pharmacy degree so since I am out of school we decided to have lunch together . For hospital cafeteria food I must say it was pretty good. It has been wonderful having her live at home with me the last few weeks. I decided to try this out and see if I could do it before Trish gets home. She will be so proud of her mother.

Here I go again on my own.

After many requests to start a blog I have given in to the peer pressure. My beautiful and talented daughter Patricia is helping me set this up. I will have to do a few practices posts before getting to China where I will be on my own since Patricia will not be there at my beck and call as she is now. Already I am enjoying this!! More to come later.