The 2010 CA calendar compiled by goldarngirl features wallpapers by cindilu2 and 2010 months with timelines looking back to important Clay Train events of the past six years.

2010 Clay Aiken Calendar

Designer: goldarngirl; Graphic artist: cindilu2 .

Tunes into 2010, Looks Back, Too

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Calendar Features Art, Timeline

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Since DIRECTV and I were reunited with a brand new receiver a week ago, I have become a part-time Clay Aiken fan, music teacher-musician, movie buff ... and blogger. Not surprisingly, much-needed housecleaning didn't even make the list.

One of the coolest creations in Clay Cyberspace this weekend is a printable 2010 calendar that combines wallpapers by cindilu2, as displayed in a slide show at the Carolina site, with events from the past six years notated each month.

To view the calendar's artwork, click on this slide show link and select fading, gallery, or full screen version.

Compiled by goldarngirl, the calendar credits the Clay Aiken Kids and Finding Clay Aiken websites as timeline sources and dancermom2 for proofreading assistance.

Download this Sendspace file, unzip, and print a 2010 calendar that recalls special Clay Train events from the past six years.

Sunday, Nov. 15, is the deadline to order the 2010 Clay Aiken Calendar compiled by Rosa Shurtz and featuring photos by toni7babe. For more info about this National Inclusion Project fundraiser, see the Oct. 31 Carolina blog entry.

New DVR in Perpetual Motion

To one whose DVR unit croaked a week ago with 10% available space (90% filled to capacity with new films along with some old favorites), rebuilding a movie repertoire has been a slow, arduous task.

Within a few days, I was thrilled to locate and program a few "must haves": August Rush, The Great Debaters, Hitch, The Paper, Death at a Funeral, etc.

This weekend I viewed for the first time recent blockbusters Milk and Slumdog Millionaire . Both are in the repeat column as the restoration continues night and day. The orange recording light is on most of the time, and the receiver has hit 50% capacity.

Had it not been for my friend Chris, who helps me with everything from computer problems to yard work, I probably would not even have the TV running now.

Friend Makes Set-Up Simple

The good folks at DIRECTV promised I would have no trouble setting up the new receiver. New DVR on top the old, remove connections from one and insert them in the other sounded easy enough. However, I have lived in this skin long enough to know my mechanical shortcomings.

Chris agreed to drop by before afternoon lessons; and, sure enough, even he had to speak with technical support. Because I don't have HD, one or two of the satellites would not load. I left my friend programming the new DVR while I started violin lessons.

Somewhere between Handel's "Gavotte" and the fiddle tunes, he finished and slipped out the den door . A really great guy to know!

This blog is also posted at Carolina On My Mind with a slideshow and clickable graphics. Thank you for your kind remarks in the OFC and Internet Clay blogs.

Have a wonderful weekend, Clay Nation!

• Caro