Check out this new layout!

I've been toying around with the layout on my blog to try and find something that's pretty simple to navigate but still has a lot of info.  I looked at some other blogs and saw things like "to-do lists" and "what's on my kindle" and "what's on my iPod."  Well, there are almost 30 books on my Kindle because most of them are free and there are thousands of songs on my iPod, so I just put the books I'm currently reading on my Kindle on the list and won't worry about the iPod thing.

So, almost everyone in this house got sick the last few days.  We believe it was the local cuisine.  Before one of our concerts, since there was a very small window of time, they gave us some pre-made sandwiches.  Most of the people who ate them had an upset stomach that night or the next couple days.  Of course, I had a fever before I ate it, so I'm getting by.  Don't eat the local food!  That's the moral of the story.


I was thinking this morning that my French has gotten good enough that I may see if there are any nearby Rotary clubs that I could visit.  Well, I just got finished searching and I can't find any, sadly.  I didn't really expect much on this little island, but one could hope.


I have started reviewing my Italian grammar again.  I'm also trying to think of most of my phrases in both French and Italian.  Come to find out, our Italian tenor is actually from southern Italy, so he uses a different dialect and isn't very useful for practicing speaking because he doesn't understand anything I, or anyone else who speaks Italian here, says.  Alas....


So, one solution I've found for people getting e-mails about my blog postings is to subscribe via Google Reader.  If you have a Gmail account, log in and look at the top of the screen and you'll see "Reader" and click on that.  If you've never used Google reader it should walk you through pretty easily.  But all you have to do is click on "Add a Subscription" and then just copy and paste my blog address (googlyelmo.blogspot.com) into that blank, click add, and you're done!  That should take care of it.  I think you may still have to check Google Reader, or have Buzz turned on.  Let me know if it works for anyone!