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  • Changing Times

    Changing Times

    Times are indeed changing and so has my blog theme. I went with the newest from WordPress and it is clean. See you thought I was going to talk about the election. I will in the future….

    I am possibly moving away from WordPress. I don’t like all the fireworks going on around it right now and don’t like how everything good cost money. Don’t get me wrong I don’t mind spending some money. In fact recently I moved to hosted Mastodon with Masto.host (by the way if you need a good Mastodon hosting service it is really great and the owner is probably the best I have ever interacted with.)!

    WordPress costs a lot of money if you want nicer themes, Jetpack and other features add to the cost. It is especially challenging too. I am trying to learn it, but I have questions. There is no one to ask, and I have not found any good sources. AI has been helpful but not always and for everything.

    My shared hosting contract is up next year and I have been thinking of going back to Blogspot but it has not had any updates for a very long time and Google likes to kill stuff. I have thought about moving to Micro.blog or paying for Write.as I just opened a free account there to see how it was. I have also been thinking of saving some money up and paying someone to make exactly what I want.

    You may have notice I just changed the name to just me. My family (mother and father) have decided they don’t want a webpage.

    That’s it for now. If you have any suggestions about what I should move to or where, just let me know.

  • Need to do better

    I need to do better at blogging. Sometimes I forget or think no one wants to hear about this anyway. Even though it does make me feel better when I type/write things.

    An update since Hurricane Idalia. We came through relatively unscathed and it appears that we just might not have a major storm hit us this year. Which is always good news. I bought a Disney World annual pass and have gone once so far. I need to go about 7 more times to break even and get more than what I paid for.

    Disney World was fun though hot and humid. I posted a couple of things on my Mastodon server if you want to check those out.

    Lastly, I was thinking of upgrading my phone this year. I moved away from Pixel for a few reasons. One that Pixel 6 Pro got too hot and the modem and wireless were not a great experience on that phone. I would drop calls or just not connect a lot. I wanted to throw that phone out a window so many times. I also didn’t like that Google kills almost everything I love and use with them or let it stagnate (i.e. Blogger). I just can’t trust that they won’t kill the Pixel. I mean there is history. They killed the Nexus line of phones. So I went with the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and loved the phone. It used to be not great at battery life barely getting me through a day and it is still almost quite like that but I am ending the day with slightly more battery than I had been for a couple of updates. Speaking of updates they have been pretty fast this year with the updates. I am looking forward to seeing what the S24 Ultra will hold and if it is much better than the S22 Ultra if not I can wait.

    Well that is all for now. Hope everyone is doing great.

  • Hurricane Idalia

    Well, Hurricane Idalia has come and is still hanging around (at least the effects). Hopefully, in a day or two it will be completely gone. We fair much better than we did with Hurricane Ian last year. Hope everyone is staying dry, as we are continually trying to do.

  • I start my last two days at my job before my retirement on Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 6PM. I am looking forward to it.
    I also have been studying for an exam I am going to be taking next week with my new career. Lets hope I pass, this will determine a lot.
    On the DVD front I watched Ghost Rider the other day and I give it 3.5 stars.
    Other news this month. I lost a good friend. Why? I have no idea. I wish her well.
    Well blog more in the next few days. Take care to all.