Young starlings gather on a neighbour’s TV aerial
Two days ago, I wrote a post, left it and never resumed it until it was past midnight, thus missing a day. Again.
Yesterday, on posting it, I found I had a new badge – for a palindrome post. It was 434 words long. Is this really something worth celebrating? Would it not be better to improve the system rather than develop a fatuous reward system?
As I struggle to keep up with the “improvements” and find the money to pay for them, do I really need to be treated like a child too?
I had another a few days ago – “Got carried Away” – for writing a comment longer than the post. It was either a six word story or a picture with a short caption. They weren’t specific regarding which post it was (it could have been either) , but either way, it doesn’t take much effort to exceed the length of the post and even if it was worth mentioning, it’s not a significant number of words.
Dunnock on the fence – a study in brown
After writing the words above (using my new, efficient and quiet keyboard) I went to read up on the so-called “achievements”. I found a way of switching them off, or thought I ddi, but, as usual, couldn’t manage the instructions. Then, as you will already know if you are reading in order, I decided to finish a draft from 2018. I was amazed to find I have 75 drafts as I was sure I kept clearing them. Obviously I kept some. I will be culling the rest soon as most of them are going nowhere. Some, in fact, are just titles that I decided to save, but have never used.
It looks like those “achievement” badges have got under my skin and made me do something. Curse you WP!
As for the keyboard, I took it out of the box, removed the plastic bag, thought of waste, and plugged it in.
Female blackbird – nature lies to us again – it’s brown!
Did it all go well?
No, of course not.
Am I going to tell you what happened? Yes . . .
. . . in my next thrilling installment.
Photos are Julia molesting topiary – she can never resist it – and some brown bird photos. Life can’t be all about woodpeckers.
And again . . .
I don’t get any ‘achievements ‘at all! You are making feel short-changed even if they are fatuous.
I’m going to have another go at cutting them off as I’m feeling far to drawn towards them
Sounds like you are making progress going through the backlog.
It’s getting there.
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I sympathize! Nothing ever goes right for me with computers. I thank my lucky stars that I live with a computer guy. Just this morning, he helped me with a problem I couldn’t figure out on my own .
Love those brown birds, too.
Cute picture of Julia!
🙂 Snow gauge and IT consultant is good, but if only he’d got a proper job like repairing water heaters . . . 🙂
The blackbird isn’t a native in Australia. Here they are very much an urban bird and when we moved from the ‘bush’ to the city I was convinced that there were two different species – a blackbird and a brown bird. But I am quite fond of them.
They are pleasant company in the garden, despite their tendency to look like different species.
Good to learn about the keyboard. My new one is OK too. Julia is a good poser
She is a good photographer and a good model. I tend to look fat and grumpy when photographed. Probably because I am fat and grumpy . . .