I've subscribed to YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/WiccanTexan

thoughts in between cleaning for Esbat...

61° and sunny; should be nice this weekend and through part of next week. All the windows are open to air out the house after last week's rainy/cold spell.

Changed format of my Witches' Meetup after having a WOW! debut of my Wiccan one. It's been getting too generically social and less witchcraft-focused, and my focused-topic Wiccan Meetup did so very well that I applied it to this last Witches' one. What a difference! I'm psyched now for the next month.

It's also helped me realize that I need to loosen up for coven meetings. Sometimes I get too much into "priestess mode" and therefore my talk is stilted. The ones I've just relaxed for went much better. So, I'll take the Meetup lessons to heart in terms of how to keep people focused and interested, and me less involved in personae and more in presentation.

Otherwise, I hope everyone is doing well!

Texas declines to sign on MySpace agreement

clipped from www.ksat.com A MySpace agreement announced Monday outlining steps it will take to protect children from online sexual predators and bullies was signed onto by every state but Texas. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a letter to MySpace's chief executive officer that he was not endorsing the agreement because it takes no action to verify people's ages. "We do not believe that MySpace.com -- or any other social-networking site -- can adequately protect minors" without an age-verification system, Abbott said. "We are concerned that our signing the joint statement would be misperceived as an endorsement of the inadequate safety measures." Abbott, who has made a crackdown on child predators a leading issue for his office, said the steps announced by MySpace are "remedial measures" that "constitute a starting point rather than a point of conclusion." However, he praised MySpace for its willingness to work with his Cyber Crimes Unit.