Troubles with Plinky

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blogs, computers, postaday2013, prompts, writing

Plinky.com has been my go to for prompts since early on in 2011, I know that they are affiliated in some way with WordPress because many of their prompts show up sooner or later on WordPress in their Daily Post. Having a go to for ideas is pretty great when you want to maintain posting something on a daily basis and you find yourself stuck or short on inspiration. It is precisely for that reason, that I try really hard to not complain or criticize the prompters. They help me so the least that I can do is take their help without complaint. 🙂

However, over the past two days, I have had nothing but trouble with Plinky. It started the day before yesterday, I tried to log in with my Plinky account to answer the prompt and cross post it over to WordPress and for the second time now, they lost my account. I had to re-register, I know that my account had been either erased or permanently lost because I was able to, once again, register using my email, my user name and the password. The next trouble that I had was I answered the prompt, it prompted you to take the third line from a song and make it your post. I took the time to past a link to a music video, write a whole bunch a words surrounding the third line of a song, clicked on the answer button and nothing, it went off into cyberspace without getting attached to anything or anywhere. This morning, I tried to answer the prompt on Plinky thinking that yesterday was a fluke, and it still didn’t work. I wrote a post related to patriotism, since the prompt was “are you patriotic and what does patriotism mean to you?”. Perhaps it was the universe telling me that my thoughts were too dark, I basically was saying that shouldn’t patriotism be more about how we, as a nation treat each other and shouldn’t we be in this together? I also mentioned that I find it hard to accept that there are some who only associate patriotism with the military and being the best. I expressed it much better than that, but like I said, it got lost. I got frustrated losing my two posts, I wrote them as I normally do, relying on the stream of words that flow out of my head, I liked how it came out, so to lose it was annoying. I know that I could rewrite it, but I can’t remember exactly how I wrote it, I know that I liked it, but the stream is lost to me and it is frustrating. Silly I know, but I wanted to share my frustrations with the internet today.

Daily prompt : Life after blogging

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blogging, computers, internet, postaday2013, writing

Your life without a computer: what does it look like?

My life without computers would look very much like the way it did before computers came into my life. Essentially I would resume my pen pal correspondence to stay in touch with my WordPress friends, just because the computer has gone away doesn’t mean that my friendships drift away into the ether. I have made important friendships and they are valuable to me so I would never mind resuming the ancient art of letter writing, lol.

Before the computers shut down I would make sure to have printed out the complete 450 pages of my unfinished novel in progress “The Chic Bootlegger” so that I can resume either writing it in long hand or typing it on our old typewriter. I don’t need a computer to finish it, I just need my imagination, my fingers and the discipline to sit down long enough to type the remaining story of Madeleine and her adventures.

The only thing that would sadden me about the loss of computers and the internet would be the loss of my political blog “A Progressive’s Thoughts”. I read and comment on a daily basis at the Huffington Post and I cross post it to my blog and I often get immediate reactions, both negative and positive to my political opinions, it is very addicting. The immediacy of other’s opinions in response to mine is unlike anything that I have ever known and it would be hard for me to give it up. I would have to work really hard to get the same reaction the old fashioned way. I suppose that it could be done, the question is do I have the intestinal fortitude to be able to do it? Well thankfully, at least I don’t have to worry about being forced to try, as far as I know the internet will continue to be with us for a long time into the future.

Youtube and cute puppies

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blogging, computers, cute, postaday2013, puppies, videos, wasting time

My hubby and I have spent a rare relaxing Sunday together entirely upstairs, reading and writing. The babies are either away at school or working. Jack has divided his time either wrestling with my iPad trying to inch his way onto my lap or wiggling his way onto my hubby’s lap. Either way Jack got his way, some kind of personal contact and that is all he wants, a leg, an arm or a hand and he is happy.

I was flipping through the Huffington Post and went to see what the Comedy section was offering and there they were, two articles featuring cute animal videos.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/winston-the-tap-dancing-bulldog_n_2924885.html
This is the one that I clicked on and Winston is the cutest bulldog, tap dancing away to his heart’s content. The Youtube website is great because it shows, on the right hand side, clips of similar videos so my hubby clicked on a bulldog puppy video and that completely that grabbed Jack’s attention, the bulldog puppy was barking, growling and then whimpering, just like a baby clamoring for attention and trying out all the sounds to see which one will get him what he wants, attention. Jack kept cocking his head back and forth trying to figure out how to get to the puppy, he even went around the iPad to see where the puppy was lurking. Jack was being just as entertaining as the puppies in those videos.

We watched the marathon of the Viking series that had been produced by the History channel. We both liked it but I was put off by the senseless violence that the Vikings bestowed upon a poor community of pious monks on the English coast when they posed no threat to the Vikings who came to their lands to plunder for gold and other riches. I understood that the Viking culture was one based on raiding other communities, but the other communities were armed and defended themselves, here the monks were defenseless and to see them slaughtered by the Vikings was awful. I am not sure how accurate the producers are with the history but it does make for drama. This is the same channel that has produced The Bible which has been very successful with its viewership, I have watched three episodes and they make for good storytelling.

Later on we are going to watch Once Upon a Time, a modern fairy tale replete with every single Disney character that you can think of, from Snow White to Captain Hook to Pinocchio, this series is one that I really like a lot.

Gadgets on anyone’s mind?

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computers, gadgets, postaday2012

Are there any tech gadgets you’re eyeing?

May 21, 2012

Gadgets on My Mind

Technology Adoption

There aren’t any tech gadgets that interest me in the least. Today of all days, I have had a difficult time with my computer so this is not the day to ask me about technology, I’m mad at my computer.

Frustration beyond belief

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computers, deep breathing, frustration, hourglass, postaday2012, technology, unresponsive

Today was not a day for writing on my computer. This morning my computer was cooperating while I was going through my mail and other interests which was, in retrospect a gift, because as soon as I had finished doing all of my important items, my computer turned temperamental to the nth degree. My computer went all crazy diva on me like nobody’s business. She could have been a computer real housewife on the Bravo network. I had plans for my blog this morning, I had envisioned trying something new, adding a music clip to my Plinky post that I cross post onto WordPress, I was very excited about trying something new and learning more about the tools available for me to make my posts more interesting and unique to me. But no, my computer diva basically snapped her circuits and said “oh no you are not”. I had commented recently on a friend’s blog who was also encountering computer issues that when mine gives me trouble, I do a lot of deep breathing and many, many walks up and down the stairs as I wait for the horrendous hourglass to go away. I also get that annoying little window informing me that there is an unresponsive script and I could either let it continue or stop it. I always elect to stop the pesky script, but what goes on in that big box I wonder, I always hear things whirring away in the box which holds the hard drive. After what seemed to be innumerable unresponsive script alerts, I broke down and shut down the diva. Frustration was still coursing through my veins and what better remedy but physical labor, taking care of my plants. I transplanted both of my hibiscus to new pots and put them outside in the front. My bougainvillea also got put outside in the back near the pool, soon to be opened this Wednesday. I would have used my new toy, the manual mower, but it kept raining intermittently so I’m hoping to get to it either tomorrow or Wednesday. I am waiting to start the diva back up, I’m happily typing away on my IPad so I don’t want to ruin my mood as of yet. There is always time for frustration later, I’m relaxing reading and writing on the couch. Life is good, plants were taken care of, the dogs were walked quite a bit and I’m still writing.