Thing #1

Thing #1 did not bode well for me, a person who has never desired to either blog or create an avatar. Creating the blog went ok, but the avatar not so much. I was in the middle of creating my avatar - since the female avatars are all way too pretty I designed one with a red union suit and with the head entirely covered with a scuba mask and sunglasses. Yes, I did save it! Then on one of my clicks, an error message appeared saying the Yahoo avatar page was not available. I tried again, and again, went away, came back, went away, came back. Then I tried the ancient version of Internet Explorer on my computer (normally I use Firefox) and got in fine. But Explorer insisted that I had not yet created an avatar! Tried Firefox again - still the error message. Back to Explorer, created new avatar from scratch.

I suppose Yahoo thought my jump-suited scuba diver totally hideous, thus my problem.

People do this for fun?