Thing 2

Getting everything set up and creating the avatar was very frustrating to me but now that is it done hopefully I will get the hang of everything pretty soon.  As far as coming up with my avatar, I just took and step by step and messed around with all the features until I got comfortable with everything.  I guess my avatar looks somewhat like myself but there are differences.  It took me a while to get my posting name and name of my blog and they ended up not being what I prefer but it's ok as long as they are done and I can remember them.