I have been addicted to facebook for a while now. It started slowly…for a while I even refused to get an account. But then, someone finally convinced me to join and I’ve been in a downhill spiral ever since.

At the beginning of this year, I was introduced to an application on FaceBook called MouseHunt. It has since become my latest online addiction. The premise is relatively simple. You start out with a simple mouse trap and a few pieces of cheese and start hunting in a town called Gnawnia. From there, each mouse you catch earns you gold and points which you then use to buy more cheese and better traps. It took me a couple of days to get into it. It’s a passive game…you can only start a hunt once every 15 minutes. And the system will take you back to check your traps roughly once every hour.

The thing is…the mice in the game aren’t just ordinary mice. There are varying breeds: the plain simple brown, white and grey mice; and the more advanced - pirate, zombie, gold, silver, ninja, dwarf…and many more. Some give you more gold than others…some give more points than others. Each have their weakness in traps and cheese and so there’s a little strategy in determining which trap and bait to use. A good bit of the game, however, is just plain luck.

So, needless to say I’m surprised at how ridiculously happy I get when I return to check my trap and discover that I’ve caught a new kind of mouse for the first time. Or that the mouse has dropped some good loot when I caught it. It’s silly how much I am enjoying this simple game. If you’re on facebook and want a game that doesn’t require you to be at your computer constantly to be playing, you should check this out.

So, I decide to once again become active on my website only to discover that my current web host has made some changes that make my site a bit buggy. Ugh. And, for you coders out there: Yes, I did check to make sure the problem wasn’t mine. Many people are complaining about this and have been for several months and the provider hasn’t really done anything to solve the issue. Add to that the fact that they won’t give me my error logs make it a reason to start shopping.

So this post is just an alert: If anyone notices any bugs or gets any “Error 500″ messages, I apologize…I can’t really do anything about them. Just try reloading the page and it should go away. In the meantime, I’m looking for a good internet host. If anyone has any suggestions, leave me a comment. I’m not really excited about the transfer process, but it looks like that’s the only sure way to get better service.

We just had our first snow of the Winter 2008-2009 season.  It’s funny…When I moved up hear a year ago, I thought that this part of Virginia would get at least one (probably two) good snows a year.  But in reality, I’m finding that’s not the case.   After I moved here last January we had two snows, I think.  And each of those snows accumulated to no more than 2 inches.  Some of you may think I’m crazy, but I love snow! So, the track record so far has been a bit disappointing.

Yesterday was an odd day for me.  I knew they were predicting snow, but when I got ready to leave for work, there was nothing really…it was just an extremely light sleet.  So, I headed out.  By the time I got to work, however, it was snowing fairly steadily.  (I love the way snow looks when it’s falling!)  I had been at work 20 minutes or so when I looked out of the window and saw that there was already an inch of snow accumulated in the parking lot.  Now, this Alabama girl doesn’t have a clue how to drive in the snow, so I started getting nervous.  45 minutes after I arrived, I decided I’d rather be stuck at home than stuck at work…so I got in my car and headed back home to telecommute the rest of the day.  Thankfully, the major roads weren’t bad, but in my neighborhood, I was plowing through the few inches of freshly fallen snow.  But by going very slowly, I made it home safe and sound. :)  If my deck railings are any indication, we had 2.5 to 3 inches of snow total here in my neighborhood.

The story today is ice.  So, once again I’m telecommuting.  I’ll drive in snow, but I’m way too much of a chicken to drive on ice.  And the depressing thing about the ice is that it means I can’t get out and build a snowman like I’ve been longing to do ever since I moved to Virginia.  Oh well! There’s always next time.  I’m just hoping this isn’t the only snow of the season.