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Friday, September 2, 2016

Troubles with Blogger

I don't know what Google is doing with Blogger, but it's a mess.  They have made it difficult to go back and edit a post once you've published it .  Yesterday it created 3 separate blog entries when I tried to edit.   Another thing it's doing to me is that any comments left on my blog come to me in my preferred email program.  Well now, it is not only sending comments to aol but also to my gmail account.   Whenever things go way wrong on my computer I blame it on the developers changing things to suit folks who do everything on their smart phones.  I think they want to phase out us oldies who don't want to change.  If they ever make it so that I can't publish my blog or write & answer my email, then there is no reason for me to even bother with a computer.   What I don't understand is why they want to make it so you can do everything with one device.  That doesn't work for all people but it makes no difference to those making the decisions.    Sure, you can take a good photo with an iPhone, but it won't be as good as one taken with a real camera, special lenses, etc., and the know-how to use them.

Well, now that I have that complaint out of the way, I need to come up with some good news.  Frankly I can't think of anything superlative to write about.

I was telling Jeannie about my troubles with the Waterpik and getting water everywhere, and I mentioned that I had wondered why I didn't remember the kids getting into water fights with it.  She replied, "Oh, Steven and I had a major water fight - we got water everywhere including out in the hallway!"  They must have cleaned it up before I found out, and here I was thinking that if anyone would have done such a thing it would have been Mike (the oldest).   It turned out to be my two middle kids!   Sometimes it is interesting to ask your grown kids about things they did as children.  They tend to come clean and be pretty honest about things they got away with, but it makes the parent wonder how they could have been so dumb as to miss it entirely!   The irony of it is that they probably are completely blind as to what their own kids are getting up to!  That is one of the payoffs of being a grandparent, and you have to root for the kids even if you can't say anything out loud!

Last night we worked out at the gym.  Today my muscles are a little sore, but my upper arms look pretty good for an old lady!  I just can't understand why it doesn't translate to being able to lift heavy things more easily.  I have to say though that I don't knock myself out about it.   No matter what I do I will still have saggy skin in places, and I've long ago given up on the idea that I can turn back the clock.

I stopped at the AAA office to get a couple of maps for one of my kids, and got the BC/AB (Canada) maps and tourbook.  The tourbook includes all the western  provinces plus Alaska!   I haven't had a chance to do anything except give the map a cursory glance, so the dreaming hasn't really started yet.   Any possible trip is still so far off and with the uncertainty of my vision by then, I just have to be patient and let things happen, or not.  

I keep forgetting this is a holiday weekend, not that I'll do anything much different than what I normally do.   I stopped grilling outdoors a long time back and can't say that I miss it.  There is nothing like a well-grilled hamburger, but I get one now and then when my kids get together for a cook-out.   I had hoped to get a short camping trip in this fall but so far no plans have materialized.   It was so much fun camping when I had a 4-legged friend to go with me.

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  1. Some of the stories my kids have told me I wish they didn't. Good grief the things for kids can get into.
    I don't have any plans for this weekend it's still to hot.

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    1. I thought I was pretty good at figuring out what my kids were up to, but I realize now I didn't have a clue! I think my daughter wants to go to Costco this etweekend, but other than that I thought I might go over to (former) Mather AFB and walk around their trails. I would like to see where they are building homes for the vets who have no place to live, but that part is probably closed off for now. I'm glad if they can get it all together. No veteran should be living on the streets in America, although I think many of them make that choice because they don't want to feel penned in.

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  2. "Sometimes it is interesting to ask your grown kids about things..."

    That caused a giggle when I remembered my dad turning to my mother and saying, "No wonder that old SOB hated our guts!" We were in Oklahoma at the lake property for 4th of July sitting around the picnic table talking about things, all of us, had done as kids. One of us brought up feeding the neighbor's dog toads. The dog loved them! Then we would point out to the new kid on the block there was a dog foaming at the mouth. They would run screaming home; telling their parents. The parent would step out on the porch look at the dog, slobbering and shaking his head, and call the cops. Well, the dog just happened to belong to the local chief of police. So he would have to go explain to the new people on the block what was going on with his dog. We were an ornery pair!

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    1. That is a good one, and I'm still laughing out loud. Thanks - I needed that!

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  3. I just edited, wrote, scrambled and unscrambled my latest blog with no trouble at all. Interesting.

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  4. I have thought along those same lines many times over the past few years about the way Google and others have been changing things to suit the 'instant this and instant that' generation. And I still strongly stand behind my thoughts of years ago about 'newer is not always better'!!!!

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    1. You are right about that, and in fact, newer is often not as good. A perfect example is in the category of cameras, which you know plenty about.

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  5. I often have to corect errors after I post and it, so far, as always worked fine. Once in blogeer go to the post listing page. Each post has options listed from share, edit, delete. Select edit and the post will come in in the edit box. Make the changes and then click the update icon and that should do it. It always works for me.

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