Here is an image of my husband and me at a river in San Miguel, El Salvador. We were at a rustic house in the country, the one where there was no bathroom and not even an outhouse. We walked through a field to this river, where we encountered a family splashing in the water. The women were doing their laundry by hand and the children were bathing in their underwear.

I'm working through these images slowly. I'm back to work in the USA and only have a short time each night to work on making my web slide show that I've planned.

I switched ISP's last week, and now, for the first time at home, I have broadband - the one that uses your telephone line; the first semblance of high speed internet. I used to have Ricochet, a satellite connection that sometimes worked at 425kbs. The service was so intermittent that I called it "Ricoshit". Well, they stopped serving my area, so I was obliged to upgrade!

Now I can enjoy streaming radio while writing a blog post. Phew, I was waiting for that for a year. Really. I listen to Pandora.com at work where I'm spoiled by constant access to high speed internet, and have come to love the ability to tell my radio station what I like and don't like. Here's my Pandora profile.

I am still assimilating my experiences in El Salvador. I filled up my notebook with short stories, first impressions, quick notes, and trip logs. Suddenly I have family on my husband's side who know me for the first time in eleven years of marriage. Will life slip back to normal? Will life be enhanced? It's up to me!

I love being connected to people on the internet. Besides having this Zaadz/Gaia account, I sort of keep up with posting to my blogger blog, I just started a Facebook account and love it, I've been using Linkagogo for years to host all my bookmarks. Many more people use more services than I do. For them, there are specialized web apps cropping up that cater to the socially overwhelmed! Dosh Dosh introduced me to Friendfeed.

Talk about overwhelmed, Matt Cutts of Google talks about being socially exhausted. He can't keep up with all the twitter requests. He's now gotta hire somebody to approve and deny all his friend requests. Why? Because he represents Google, and everybody who's anybody in the internet world wants top ranking in Google, so they try to get "in" with him.

So here I am, arranging my iGoogle homepage with all the RSS feeds I care to read. RSS keeps me organized, on task, and in touch with what I want to know.

Yesterday I was driving home from work and engaging in my usual mental chatter. I was thinking about how even though I'd like to say I don't judge people, I do judge people. I was thinking, "I'm not a therapist. I am often too harsh in dealing with people, and I end up judging them based on their actions."

At this point, I came to a stoplight and the car next to me on my right honked. I turned my head to see if I was the target, but that car's driver was waving at somebody to her right. She pulled forward and revealed to me a man dressed in a kangaroo outfit wearing bright red boxing gloves, standing in a parking lot of a nearby liquor store. He was banging his gloves together and jumping like a boxer.

"No way!" I grabbed my cameraphone and did my best to get a photo. It didn't turn out because the kangaroo was too far away. I concluded that the universe will give you an "I second that" message when you are tuned in. I've never seen this character before, yet I saw him just as I was thinking about being too harsh with people. This was my clue to release my judgements and let whatever "is" be okay.