Facebook question

I've set up a Facebook account finally, mostly because of various nieces who post there, so it's a way to keep in touch. But I'm trying to figure out how many casual friends/acquaintences I should add. For instance, it just suggested someone who I do know, and while I am quite happy to chat with her if we happen to be at the same party, I don't particularly want to follow her daily life. Do I add her or not? See what I mean?

Are there filters like friends filters on LJ?

Patting my back

I know full well that I should do backups regularly. I even figured out how to burn backups onto DVDs. But it was a hassle and the idea of accumulating stacks of superceded DVDs was unappealing, not to mention wasteful. Once I heard about Time Machine, I knew I wanted to upgrade to Leopard. And so I did, but then I needed a drive. magscanner said he had a drive I could use, but he had to deal with the stuff stored on it first. Eventually he did, then it sat on my desk, waiting for me to find time to deal with it. After the holidays, I promised myself. At Macworld on Thursday, I listened to a 'maintaining your Mac' talk which convinced me I needed a second backup drive as well, so I found an at-show deal on a very cute little Rocstor 5CX that's just a little bigger than a box of playing cards! I've now made a backup on one drive to store off-site and set up Time Machine with the other. Go me!

I should probably tweak the Time Machine set up, make exceptions for some files or folders, etc. Haven't researched/thought my way through that part yet. I didn't empty the trash before I started, so there's a pile of junk that really didn't need to be backed up. Maybe I'll even start over after figuring some of this out. But hey, it's a great start!

Backups and Facebook, two of my 'do it after the holidays' items I can check off my list.

beans and houses

Following on to my triumph of finally backing up my computer, I took advantage of the balmy weather to harvest some of the beans I had left on the vines and clean up said vines. I now have a large bowl of dried beans and a large bowl of shelly beans (i.e., they're still on the green & moist side). I'm seeing a shelly bean corn chowder in our near future. I got through about 2/3 of the bean vines that were still out there, but as magscanner  and I were hauling a batch of vines to the curb for green waste pickup, a car pulled up and the people began excitedly telling us that our house looked exactly like theirs! We had heard there was a look-alike in their neighborhood, but hadn't come across it ourselves. Much fun and comparing of notes ensued (you can read more in magscanner 's post, but the light was failing by the time we finished, so I need to finish the bean harvest tomorrow.

Nonetheless, another postponed task has been started and should get completed tomorrow. I'm spraining my arm with all this back patting, you know.