Who's that under the Home Depot Hat?

Yes, it's me under the bucket. In December 2007, a few of the older boys and their dads from our scout troop spent four days at Peggy O'brien Cabin in the heart of the High Peaks Region of the Adirondacks. Reaching the cabin entailed a 3.5 mile trek on snowshoes, carrying all our food, provisions, and personal gear in backpacks. I was totally wiped out from the hike to the cabin and had just returned from fetching water from a stream and almost falling into the ICY water - so hiding my head in a bucket seemed pretty reasonable at the time. Tumbling into Bear Creek on the way out (snowshoes and all!) was definitely not cool! But that's another story.

What was absolutely cool is that I think I had that photo from the snowshoe hike in Google or somewhere. When I created Orangeburg Pipe, I added it as my profile picture. The Blogger software picked up on the orange-ness and by some mysterious default, set the blog colors to reflect it...

Summer School - Internet for Beginners

Each Thursday morning this summer, I'll provide a little one-to-one Internet Basics on our Public Access computers. This will be summer casual, relaxed help in getting started on the Internet - what it is and does, how to set up an email account, what's Google anyway?

Here are some links that we will explore:

From About.com, many useful links to get the Internet New User started: http://netforbeginners.about.com/
Basics:
http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/internet101/u/inetbasics.htm)