King Kitty, Calling cards, and Settings

I've been away awhile, enjoying the rain, disappointed that there hasn't been much beef or chicken lately, and creating quite a ruckus on the home front. My owner has found a new dinner, Trader Joe's has a salad in a bag that comes complete with lettuce, mandarin oranges, slivered almonds and salad dressing. No chicken, no beef! Quite a disappointment to me so I left a calling card for my owner...it was quite funny really...the comforter had to be washed but of course not in the washing machine...but my owner thought it might fit this time because there was no time to go to the laundry mat...of course 10 minutes into the wash cycle, the smell of burning rubber, my owner figured it out..doesn't fit...wring it out, put it on clotheline to dry enough to bag up to take to laundry mat on weekend....well once flung onto the clotheline...clotheline broke...big heap on ground...hee hee...guess I'll be getting some more chicken and beef...or maybe not quite yet. All doors leading to beds and comfy places to sleep have been closed off...I am banished to the sofa with a measly throw blanket. Guess I'll have to get those cute eyes of mine working...like the cat on Shrek...it works every time. My owner, I think, has figured out the settings to respond to blog :)

Blog use

A lovely rainy evening, just perfect to perch on my owner's lap, get lots of pet pets and scratchy scratches and ponder blogs. Maybe the library could ask kids and tweens to write down their favorite computer games on a large post-it board as they come into the Children's room. To see if their game is the "most awesome one out there", they could check the Kids and Tweens blog to see how their game compared to others and to add their own comments. Maybe there would even be a drawing for a fun-filled game day at the library, complete with xbox 360 and wii. Well back to other more pressing matters, what shall we have for dinner tomorrow night? Chicken and rice is pretty good and easy...just brown chicken, set aside. In large bowl, mix poultry seasoning, 1 cup of milk, 2 1/2 cups water, 1 cup jasmine rice, salt and pepper.Mix well and pour into baking dish. Set browned chicken on top, cover, bake at 350 for about 1 1/2 hours. Chicken is really good. Measurements & ingredients may not be exact to the recipe from the Taste of Home Cookbook: Timeless Recipes from Trusted Home Cooks.

Weeks One and Two

King Kitty and my ownee have decided to take part in the Library 2.0 Challenge so that we can expand our minds and technical skills to keep up with the omnivores of technology, especially the kids, teens and young adults of the library world and beyond.

Setting up a blog is very easy...so easy I think my ownee should set up several....one for each of my nine lives. It would be very easy to become a blogger and if we find some interesting blogs, we might even become regular bloggers. Of course documenting my nine lives should keep my ownee a blogger for some time.

Of course, perhaps there is a way to use this technology to provide new, different or even the same library information and services (yet repackaged in new and improved bell and whistle technology) to the children and teens. I am a 17 years young kitty and my ownee is falling way behind the technology curve. She still doesn't text message or have a virtual pet...except me...hopefully when I go to kitty heaven, I will then become her virtual pet. In the meantime, I am missing out on my daily pet pets from the kids because they are too busy playing games on the computer. Sure my ownee can type, use a cell phone, fax a letter, e-mail, and create a webpage but she is so behind the times with the new, cool tricks of the trade such as blogs, wikis, setting up meetings and even uploading pictures to the web. Perhaps these new tools and tricks will help my ownee work smarter, learn more about the kids and teens in the community and what they find useful, find fast and fabulous carnivorous recipes for my dinner, get my lovely feline face into the spotlight of the worldwide web, archive my lovely personality for decades to come, and along the way, discover some new and different tools that would be applicable for the library, specifically for the children and young adults of the community.

To make use of a blog for the library, my ownee needs to learn more about the users of this technology, specifically the kids and teens, how they use it, is there relevance for it in the library, and how can we capitalize on it.

King Kitty and Ownee January 21, 2008

Hello and let me introduce you to myself. I am King Kitty. I am 17 years young, have lovely long tabby cat fur, green eyes, and my favorite past-time is to sleep and eat, much like my ownee. Today we were up at 3:17 a.m., or should I say one of us was up and moving about? My ownee was busy sleeping until one of my louder meows got the attention I deserved. Still didn't get breakfast but did get a quick pet. Guess I'll have to wait til 5:00 a.m. before I get breakfast....sure hope not much later than that and I hope it is real food, not canned. I am a carnivore through and through so prefer beef, chicken or fish, unlike my ownee.

Well enough about me. Today was a big day! My ownee has signed us up for a gmail account. It was quite the "cat's meow", if I say so myself. It was very simple to do. We also signed up for a blog, starring me...King Kitty. Maybe my ownee will even post my picture one of these days.

A blog is a great way to post and archive fabulous and all important information such as a day in the life of moi or more frivolous information about my ownee.