The running list of domain names:

beccasbordinghouse.net

travelswithartemis.net

boatsjeepsandrockets.net

itchyfeets.net (itchyfeet is taken)

allmybagsarepacked.net

maidenbecca.net

wearingsandals.net

lostinabook.net

windinmyface.net

3lawssafe.net

comesailaway.org

scifigirl.net

longcurlyhair.net

windinmysails.net

windatmyback.net

spaceorbust.com

apachesmom.com

airbabebecca.com

oldpilesofrock.com

beccastreks.com

booka.com

headinthestars.com

beccanaut.com

beccainspace.com

beccainorbit.com

beccaspace.com

worldofbecca.com

aerobecca.com

airbecca.com

flybecca.com

daringadventure.org

notayak.net

ettuBecca.net

beccack.net

innubibus.net (in the clouds)

postfactum.net (after the fact)

Keep sending suggestions and votes!There will be a prize I promise! I would really like something short, and preferably only one or two words. Something easy to remember and spell and that looks good.

I had a terrible stair-climbing work out last night with Jen. I started all energized and gung-ho, but I rapidly became so sick and dizzy that I had to stop. Jen hit a wall at about the same time I did. I pretty much felt crappy all evening after that. Blame it on my recent experience as typhoid-mary or something.

Any suggestions on women explorers in the northeastern U.S. from the 1500s - 1800s? Talk about narrow parameters...



This was an interesting article compariing Laura Bush and Theresa Heinz Kerry. Not that the comparisons were all that novel, but because apparently the reporter (and Laura Bush) must have recently visited Bucks County. They refer to an event at the Sheraton (formerly The Royce where my brother had his famous indoor-pool-in-December birthday party when he was 8), the one reasonably large hotel in the entire area. And then they quote people from Southhampton, Yardley (where my grandparents lived), and Langhorne (which was my old postal code in Holland). Of course, they are all big pro-Bush people, imagine that! (In other words, I'm not at all surprised.) And then I learned a new word, apparently that area is an "exurb", meaning a rural area that has become a suburb because of its proximity to the city -- described with its cookie-cutter hotel ballrooms, in cookie-cutter phrases, in cookie-cutter suburbs. I'll leave my relatives that still live in that place to judge the accuracy of that description... Personally I used to think it was cookie-cutter until I experienced the planned communities and model homes of Houston. Now, I think it has a little bit more personality than that! But that may just be hometown loyalty.