The title pretty much sums it up. I am finding that I have about 20 minutes to wrtie (give or take) in a day if all goes well.
I had hoped to write everyday here but well…life. It’s a good thing I didn’t pick a name like jimdaily.com or something of the like.
Perhaps now that I have quit twitter I will have a bit more time but we shall see.
The big time sinks seems to be job and family, but they’re not going anywhere anytime soon so I will just have to deal I guess.
So far most of my posts have been small and I hope to change that over time and start writing about some real topics but for now 20 minutes is about all I have.
At this point, where absolutely nobody is reading this drivel it doesn’t really matter much at all but when the time comes where I might actually see an audience it would be nice to find the time to write more.
I rarely used it. I used it a bit when I first found out about it during 2007
and 2008 but not enough to actually make a dent. I had a few “friends” but
nobody misses me.
Elon.
see number 2
Seems things are a litte screwy over at Twitter and seeing as how I wasn’t using it much anyway
this seems like a good time to pack it in and I am for sure not paying8 bucks for a checkmark
I also find all this social media a timesink that as a busy dad with all the repsonsibilities of
everyday life I find it absolutley mind boggling that anybody has any time to tweet let alone tie
their shoes. But maybe I am just really bad at time management.
I don’t have my tinfoil hat at the ready just yet but I am becoming more and more uncomfortable of signing up to a “platform”
only for the platform to change (ie: blue check marks) or worse disappear or made obsolete. Remember
myspace? Things change.
I have signed up to use a Mastadon as I like the idea of this better. I don’t fully grasp
the federated bit, but perhaps that will come. I just signed up a few days ago and haven’t had much time to investigate.
I’m not all that social anyway but it looks a lot… nicer? I dunno.
A few years back I quit facebook and I don’t miss it a bit so I doubt I will miss twitter at all as well.
I wonder how this works? Can I use this to write and all links when compared to getting some writing done. I wonder what would happen if I could get some writing done would be great.
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If this is the case then I can get by with this I guess, but it could be better.
I have ascended. Being a dad - an older dad at that - requires some skills and one of them is to not give a shit about fashion
It’s all about comfort. I’m over the brands and logos. Heck, even the colors don’t matter much any more for me. I think the
pandemic might have been the reason for me losing all intersest in looking good because we were home all the time so the only
people you saw was loved ones and they were supposed to love you no matter how you looked
And here I am: with crocs and socks. Not only do I have them on, but they are tie dye crocs
And you know what? They are great! I should have done this sooner. How long have we had crocs now? 20 years now? I managed to
dodge the crocs trend until now so I figured that’s not bad! I was not an early adopter of these and yet here I am with these
things pretty much glued to my feet!
These things are awesome. I always thought they were pretty ugly and I still do - but the only thing that’s changed is that
I don’t care any more. :)
Due to the overwhelming weather we’ve been having
lately I decided it would be a good day to take her for a walk on the river, and it was:
It was an absolutely gorgeous day to take her for a stroll and get some of that 4 year old energy
burned off. Besides, it is supposed to snow by this time tomorrow. Today, it’s a record high
for the weather and then tomorrow we are supposed to go back to more seasonal climes.
Anyway, the walk: I would guess it’s about a half mile round trip. We walk a 1/4 mile each way to small bridge
where there’s useually somebody with a fishing rod but today there was nobody and we almost had the
entire trail to ourselves.
Along the walk we saw a dog jump in the river for a swim, we through more small rocks into the water
than I care to count and we happpened on some logs that had been cut as obviously they had fallen
over the winter on the trail and this trail is maintained so somebody had moved the logs to the side
of the trail and this was a whole topic of conversation because she’s four and there’s questions
to be answered.
Also, I’m getting a bit better at this parenting thing and had enough forethought to pack snacks
so while we were tossing rocks we also were tossing chex mix into our mouths as well.
Then on the way home I gave her an apple to chew on for the ride home.
This was not the post I had in mind to write today but I just wanted to note how freaking hot it was in Buffalo today.
Read that again: It was HOT in Buffalo. In April. Those 3 words don’t usually go together like this but after the blizzard of ‘22
we needed today. And it looks like it was for only today because in 3 days time the forecast is for snow again which is just mother nature fucking with us at this point.
It’s like the weather is bi-polar: “I’m Hot!” “No, wait. nevermind”.
The kids were out on bikes, and old classic cars were getting their first wash of the season and other signs of summer happened today. It was a pleasant change to get a taste of what I hope to be the summer to come.
I sold a few computers today. I had these two HP elitedesk Mini desktop computers that were sitting unused so I might as well turn them into a bit of cash. I ended up selling them for $30 each so it’s not like I am getting rich off of this sale but it’s
stuff out of the house and it keeps the wife happy.
Also, I might put the funds towards another cheap mini pc if I can find a deal on one. I am thinking about gettin this one as I find that I use my laptop chromebook tethered to my to my desk 99 percent of the time and this might get me to use the chromebook as a laptop more if I don’t have a bunch of cables hanging from it
When the wee one starts wailing and screaming when she doesn’t get what she wants, I do the thing you’re not supposed to do: cave and give it to her any way. Because: Daddy’s Girl.
Tonight, I can proudly state that I did not cave. I stood my ground and eventually I won. Not the war, but the day’s battle at least.
The meltdown started as it always does: at bedtime. And boy did it start. She was happily playing and I geve her all the ususal warning signs that things were winding down but that wasn’t enough apparantly andhe screaming began and she wouldn’t stop. I managed after a relatively short period of tinme to get her to snuggle with me as I find that that’s about the only thing that works for us to get her to cool her jets.
Once she settled down we thought we had it sorted, and I went downstairs to write a completely differen pos than what But then against my advice, she got out of bed and found me, becuase usally I am a sucker for a pretty face.
This time she wanted to be read a story. I told her that ship had sailed and no bedtime story for girls that misbehave. She lost it it. It was a good half hour of pure tantrum. Eventually she realized that after I put her back in the bed for the 100th time that tonight I meant business and there is no effing story. It’s a simple rule: no rewards for bad behaviour.
She begged and pleaded but I held my ground and there was no bedtime story tonight for little girls that have tantrums.
She just needs to go the fuck to bed. It’s all better with a good night’s sleep. For all of us.
Thankfully, the weather is getting warmer here in the Greater Buffalo area. I have survived blizzards and ice storms this year and I am glad to be over it now.
We’re not quite at short sleeve weather, but close. It’s supposed to hit 70 degrees later this week which will be fantastic after the winter we have had.
We played outside after dinner tonight and although it was a little cool and cloudy it was a blast to be outside with the family again.
It’s official.Our dog is crazy. The thing that most drives me crazy has to be the issue it has with the sliding glass door at the back of the house. This dog will not come in!
I have tried everything. I have tried to use some dog treats to waving around some cheese and nothing. One of the more annoying things about this is that it seems to be random. Some timees she will wander right in as if she has no problems at all.
But mostly, it’s a nightmare.
You can call her from the back yard and she’s pretty good at coming and she will bound up the steps to the door threshold and then stop. And after that, there’s nothing you can do to get her to come in. At times there’s been 3 grown adults all waving ahd encouraging the dog to just come inside already.
She will do one of two things:
She will stand there and think that this is a game and you’re supposed to grab her and play
She will act afraid of us and shiver and shake like we are going to harm her.
The only thing I have found to work sometimes is to grab her by the collar if I’m lucky as she’s usally too fast for me to get her. Or, I can pretend to put on my shoes and then she might come in. I’ve also tried closing the door on her in hopes that when I open it again, she will come in. That never works despite how much I can hope.
I’m hoping that over time this will dissipate and as she gets older she will not want to be outside as much as she does now.
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