Christmas Letter

It's almost time for our annual late Christmas Letter.  It goes to press this week, but we don't have room enough (or cash enough) for all of the photos we wanted to include, so we created a website with photos for you to check out: curtisandclark.blogspot.com.

Enjoy.

De-friending your facebook "Friends"

So if you read my last post (immediately below this), you'll find that perhaps the ideal number of close friends a person could have is five.

I joined the evil facebook on a friend's recommendation, and I suddenly had 50+ "friends" and numerous requests for "friend"-ship from people whose daily goings-on I really don't want or need to know.

So I un-friended a lot of people and managed to get my circle down to 20.  I'm sure it's a little evil.  I'm sure some people will be facebook "mad" now that I'm no longer their facebook "friend," but seriously how do people manage a group of 700 "friends"?  I'm certain I don't know.

I un-friended every woman I was "friends" with.  That was easy.  Besides, I'm "friends" and actual friends with all their husbands, making our friendship unnecessary.  I even un-friended my sister-in-law and my sister-in-law-to-be.  I un-friended people I went to high school and college with whom I don't see, won't see, and wouldn't stop by and visit if I were in their city.  I also un-friended every person who sent me a facebook "cat."  This, I believe, will now be my personal rule: send me a cat, I de-friend you.

Anyway, my circle of friends is now 20.  It will take some soul searching for me to narrow the list some more, but I'm sure I'll need it as I continue to get requests and still try and keep my group down to a reasonable, manageable size.