Friday Funday: Spring Cleanup? Already?!

While the calendar does say March, we realize it's technically too early to truly be talking about Spring, without potentially bringing on one last freak blast of Winter.

We're so sick of Winter this year, however, that we're willing to take the risk.

With the above freezing temps in both of our main locations, and and little bit of springtime weather in the air, we've decided to do some cleanup today, answer a couple e-mail questions from our readers, and pass along something we think you should see, before we all officially head slowly and steadily into the season of spring.

First, the questions.

We've been asked recently, more than once, where you, our readers, can see the previously released Daily Felltoon cartoons, after they slide off the Daily Felltoon page - or away from the pages of media sources like NPR - and the main page of PaulFellCartoons.com.

Once a Daily Felltoon cartoon slides off the main page of PaulFellCartoons.com, it goes into the monthly archive, in the "Editorial Cartoons" section, under "Artizans Toons." Each cartoon there is grouped by month, and has its own URL. You can find your favorite cartoon, copy and paste the link, and send it to anyone.

Along that same line of thinking, we've also been asked recently if we're still looking at adding a tool to each cartoon, which would allow you to click on it, and post your favorite cartoon in Facebook or Twitter or other social networking programs.

The short answer to that second question is, yes - we're still planning on that. Our web guru has been getting settled into his new job recently - and now his job is moving locations. Thus he hasn't exactly had a lot of extra time to add more functions to the website. Still, the groundwork has already been laid for adding a sharing tool to each cartoon, and we'll be seeing if Shawn has time to add that function before summer arrives.

Finally, something we think that more people should see.

An animation from a company known as Cognitive Media was passed around by a few people we know a few weeks ago. It features the voiceover work of acclaimed journalist, author and political activist, Barbara Ehrenreich. It's an animated piece, based on a presentation given by Ehrenreich for The RSA, in January 2010, about optimism and unemployment - and the limits of optimism on the economy and unemployment. Frankly, we think you should just watch the animation yourself, whether you have gainful employment right now or not, and see what you can learn from the video.

We're aware that things appear to be getting better for a growing number of Americans - the economy, the jobless rate, the weather, and more.

We just hope you don't mistake a false day of improvement - in the weather or otherwise - for a wholesale instant change. Things are getting better for most people, slowly and patiently, just like the changing of the seasons.

The best way to enjoy the new improvements in the world is to clean up your own life now, so when things really do blossom, you'll be able to have the time to enjoy them.