Before I finish up the Farmington visitor guide, I thought I’d take a little diversion.

In 1984 I knew only of a googol as a very large number once used in a gag in the Peanuts comic strip (I believe Schoeder told Lucy the odds of them getting married are a googol to one).  In 2008 we have the search engine Google, which I decided to utilize to find some blogs about day to day life in the city.  Granted, most bloggers probably don’t talk about their hometowns much, and some do but don’t actually identify what town they’re in, and I understand the need to do that in some cases.

I tried wordpress first, but the results I found for Farmington and New Mexico were rather sparse, and I only found entries and no actual blogs about living in the actual city.  So, off to Google’s blog search.

Early results by relevance weren’t looking good.  The library had some nice info-blogs, but nothing that really caught my notice.  Then came a blog froma job site that was looking for a nurse.  After clicking through a few more pages that just seemed to mention Farmington as a city to drive through, I went to the main Google search and did a search for “Farmington”, “New Mexico” and “blog”.  I found my own blog on page two of the search, so I’m thinking that this will be a lot tougher than I thought.

On a lark, I checked YouTube for something, and I found the city’s promotional video that appears on the Farmington web site.  While not reminding me of anything of my time there, it does give a glimpse of some of the things I’ve been writing about recently.  Well, mostly.  If you make it to the end, you’ll see the video is from 2001.