I recently joined the existing shit load of people on Facebook.
Immediately after I created my account added only my sisters as friends, ALL of my family was befriending me. I felt like the pork chop tied around the neck of the ugly kid to get the dog to play with him.
The reason why I joined Facebook was to promote my self-publishing efforts I'm doing through the Amazon Kindle Self Publishing service.
It's really a nasty bit of mobbing by everyone on there.
You can't post any read only comments/updates.
This means EVERYONE can post to your comment...
I've had brothers post "cute" dumbass replies, and my own mom replying to a post... "why doesn't my little boy call?"
WTF posts like that?
If you want...
SHIT.
What a FUBAR system. I'm really close to just cutting the whole fucking thing off. Except that I want to promote my books/stories.
It's not easy being cheesy... or was it being green?
Recently though, I noticed one of my nieces posting about mental health troubles...
I know what that's like to go through. It appears that it's all brand new to her.
I suggested that she watch the videos from BipolarStateOfBeing on YouTube. Not the newest ones, but the original ones from 5+ years ago. They helped me the most.
Originally I thought about letting her know about this blog... but I really don't want this to get around to my brothers, sisters, parents, etc. then back around to my family here. Especially back to Ellie.
I suppose when/if I die, then Ellie will know about this blog, and so will the Misses. Until then, I'll just keep doing what I do.
It's healthy to journal your life, and even if this is just one side of my life, it's OK.
At least, my family gets to eventually see this part of my life, if they do at all.
Friday, December 9, 2016
While you were away, we changed the keys to the locks, and repainted your bedroom neon green!
It's been many moons and Google/Blogger went and changed all their UI on here.
I don't think it's too bad, but it's a change I wasn't expecting.
It looks and feels more like a Fisher Price toy.
Honestly, I don't know why everyone has to add more and more icons, instead of menus with words. Are people getting that stupid that they can't READ?
"Back in the days" when I started with computers I had DOS, which on its own was a bit of a learning process... HOWEVER, the applications, except for a few, all had what were called, "MENUS". They were all written in "English", which meant you had to read the screen to figure out what to do. Maybe I'm too simple minded, that adding more graphics and less words to the screen is stupid. Okay, it really is stupid to take away the menus... especially the shortcut references! Microsoft has been doing this for years and now I'm even more frustrated, because I don't want to take my hands from the keyboard to do something. This really applies to adding new keyboard shortcuts for features I use a lot more. (Mostly bullets and numbered lists.)
Oh well... it seems like the best way to do anything for people out there is to just make it stupid proof.
I'm a bit miffed now, and this diatribe won't lead to any sort of update to my life...
I guess I'll write another entry after I publish this one...
I don't think it's too bad, but it's a change I wasn't expecting.
It looks and feels more like a Fisher Price toy.
Honestly, I don't know why everyone has to add more and more icons, instead of menus with words. Are people getting that stupid that they can't READ?
"Back in the days" when I started with computers I had DOS, which on its own was a bit of a learning process... HOWEVER, the applications, except for a few, all had what were called, "MENUS". They were all written in "English", which meant you had to read the screen to figure out what to do. Maybe I'm too simple minded, that adding more graphics and less words to the screen is stupid. Okay, it really is stupid to take away the menus... especially the shortcut references! Microsoft has been doing this for years and now I'm even more frustrated, because I don't want to take my hands from the keyboard to do something. This really applies to adding new keyboard shortcuts for features I use a lot more. (Mostly bullets and numbered lists.)
Oh well... it seems like the best way to do anything for people out there is to just make it stupid proof.
I'm a bit miffed now, and this diatribe won't lead to any sort of update to my life...
I guess I'll write another entry after I publish this one...