It’s funny how the universe works sometimes. I took a one night class with “the Craig” of www.craigslist.org last month. (He’s kinda famous in these parts.) The class was about “Building Online Communities”. It gave me a chance to ponder things like weblogs, discussion forums, geography, everyday experts…and (of course) cowboy boots. I guess I was more prepared than I thought when those evil spam spewin’ spider thangs showed up and made themselves at home on my ol’ faithful bulletin board. I guess I had a headstart on figurin’ out what a new board might offer above and beyond a spam-free posting zone. This morning I dismantled my old bulletin board…no new posts. I took off the posting form and change the file permissions to read only. It left me a little sad….I’m not sure why… it probably won’t last long. I was workin’ on the new board yesterday…and I could see at the bottom of my screen that Tex Robin was online. I tried out that new “instant message feature” and sent him a private message…then he bounced one back. It wasn’t much more than a “howdy”, but it made me feel a little more connected somehow.

Take a peek at the new & improved “Cowboy Boot Web Page Bulletin Board“…I’m still tinkering with it, but go ahead and give it a try.

It’s hard to type cgi script with yer fingers crossed.

Did you see the posting on “Quick Topic Discussion Board“? …the one for 500 used boots…cowboy boots by the pound?! Now that’s somethin’ you don’t see everyday.

Last night I went to a “nu vaudeville” show… Karen Quest was there doin’ rope tricks. It was swell. I didn’t think you could twirl a 50 foot rope in a theatre that small. It was very suspense-full. By the end of her act, I somehow ended up on stage as part of a “cow bell” orchestra…ya shoulda been there.