A whole day stretched out in front of me this morning . . .
I had pretty much the same thing yesterday too, and that didn’t really work out that well. I seem to have done a few things, but nothing that makes me feel good.
Today I go up, read WP, did comments etc, had breakfast, read and wrote some trivia before making lunch (Julia is at the tearoom this afternoon so we eat early), watched TV, drifted into a nap, dreamed about a gang of monkeys taking over the world, woke in the middle of a nature programme and decided to use the small hoover. It is currently charging as it was flat. Washed up and now, waiting for a charge in the hoover, I am typing trivia and thinking “I really must get a keyboard where the “t” works.”. It’s irritating going back to insert all the missing letters.
The original blog post was slightly more bitter than the one you see here but I decided to lighten the mood. It’s alarming how short a factual account of my day can be, and how simple it seems in hindsight.
I’m currently trying to access my comments, but I can’t. This is just another example of how WP are perpetually tinkering and perpetually making life harder. I’m seriously thinking of going back to a free blog rather than paying for irritatingly fault filled services. I would miss the photo storage but I don’t take many photos these days so probably wouldn’t miss it. People often worry about losing all their words, but to be honest, I probably wouldn’t. To a large extent, my blog is just disposable words. Any pride I have in the blog is in my ability to keep it going for so long and the fact I have attracted a dozen other bloggers of distinction to become regular readers.
I pressed the blue bell and nothing happened. I tried again. I refreshed the page and a shadowy version came down, then disappeared. Repeat. And again. Eventually I got them. Why does it take three attempts to access something that used to be there reliably for the first ten years I used it. Why do I have to press more buttons to read other blogs than I used to? Why do they now blank out the side panels when I am writing, I can write with things down the side. Probably “an improvement” I didn’t need in the first place.
Then I had trouble with the photos . . .
Why, why, why, why, why?
I agree with you about WP making things more involved/harder. As I have been dipping in and out of blogging over the past few years, each time I return I find something else has changed and it takes me some time to work out how to deal with it. This is not conducive to regular posting as I get very frustrated.
I always find that you have something relevant to say; in this post as in all your posts. You are too self effacing. You are a fund of knowledge about all sorts of things that always interest me. I have a dear husband who regularly lists all the cars he has ever owned and all the houses he has ever lived in. He will tell me how a nuclear power station works. I need something else to learn about!
To be fair, nuclear power plant knowledge is quite useful in Suffolk. You know about church architecture and flowers. We are waiting to hear from you . . . 🙂
Ooh! I’m working myself up to it – incrementally.
That’s how I did it. If you have a Wordless Wednesday and a Silent Saturday you are already part of the way there. Do a photo of a religious building on the first weekday (Monastic Monday), a couple of lines for Thought on Thursday, then Friday Flowers and you have already posted five times . . .
Just an example. 🙂
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Not such a Trivial Pursuit as the game
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I agree about companies working hard to make accessible programmes more inaccessible as they go along. WP is very bad for this, but they are far from the only ones.
To a large extent, all words are disposable. I sometimes feel sorry for the journalists who have made great efforts to produce those supplements that come with your papers with titles like ‘Science in Education Today’. In our house they often end up lining our kitchen compost bowl without having been read at all. At least our blogs aren’t wasting paper.
Yes, that’s the good thing about blogs – kind to trees. When I was an aspiring novelist with a typewriter it was tough on trees . . .
It might be one of the plug-ins causing the problem, or possibly cookies or JavaScript. Usually I find the simpler the tool, the better it works. Fewer pieces to break or be incompatible with browsers, etc.
Your words are not replaceable, and what you have to say is interesting!
Simple = Better. I can relate to that.
Thank you for your kind words, but honestly, if I wiped out the entire blog I could start writing it all again tomorrow. It’s not exactly literature. 🙂
I think a gang of monkeys would be a big improvement over what we have now in the U.S. As for blogging…it seems to me that any time we can spread connection and understanding is a win, no matter how small the audience. For example, a blogging friend in Sweden considers me her neighbor because of our similar climate. Now, I know our blogs are not going to bring about world peace, but they are bright sparks in a dark world.
I’m happy that a dozen people find me interesting enough to pass by regularly. 🙂
are words really disposable? but yes…I share your frustration with wordlress
In my case they are disposable, as WP just proved when it disposed of my original answer. 🙂
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Yours, posing important questions of modern manners and being written by a literary stylist who goes to classes, are, of course, worthy of preservation. 🙂 Where I merely joke about a future PhD student mining my work, they really will mine yours for data on life in the early 21st century.
well I am an astute chronicler of social hypocrisy
“an astute chronicler of social hypocrisy” that will look good in your author’s bio. Mine just gives a list of dead end jobs and ends “and wishes he had tried harder at school.” 🙂
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When you are famous I will be able to tell everyone I know a member of the NY literary scene. Keep working. 🙂
I’m on it
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