Wandering Heart

The other day my wife confronted me –

            “Who is it?”

            “What are you talking about? Who’s who?”

            “I've seen the texts and the conversations on the computer. What’s her name?”

“Her name's Diigo…”

Yeah, I’m digging Diigo. It’s not only helping me organize my Master’s and School worlds but also the rest of my life. My wife and I finally bought a house (we had been living with her parents since we sold our condo last July) and you can see that reflected in my Diigo library. You can also get a glimpse into my semi-neurotic obsession with trying to reduce the environmental toxins in our lives and especially things that off-gas (other than myself).

One thing that I finally figured out that was making me crazy was how to get the little blue "d" button to appear in the upper right hand corner of the browser:

I must have done it accidentally the first time, and it looks like it may only be available for Chrome but it turns out that it's called the Web Highlighter on Chrome and I like it much better than the Diigolet. For one thing I can close the browser bar and free up some additional space on the screen. It’s also more compact and once selected gives me access to all the Diigo functionality I need. But my favorite thing is that it tells me if I have already bookmarked something by adding a small red bookmark at the top of the button. The Diigolet gives you no indication that you have saved the page so I end up wasting a lot of time re-saving or going back and forth to see if I have saved an item.

In the shameless self promotion department – Before I had kids I used to be the kind of person that groaned internally, and sometimes externally, when people would start talking about their kids or take pictures out. Now if they wanted to talk pets count me in. Vets, wet vs. dry food, idiosyncrasies, poo poo, funny stories, you name it I was game. Of course that all changed when I had kids. Like a reformed smoker speaking out against smoking, I have become the most annoying person in the room.

I've shared a little bit with my cohort-mates throughout the program that when my oldest was born he had some very serious medical issues to deal with. At first we didn't know if he was going to make it as he had a very hard time breathing due to a congenital airway obstruction. He ended up needing a tracheostomy and the doctors weren't sure if he would someday have a diminished voice or even be able to talk at all. Long story short, we were exceedingly fortunate and he had reconstructive surgery a couple of summers ago and is doing great (and very loud!). Today was a big day for him and an exciting yet bittersweet one for us.