Random 3 for September 1, 2024 – Seasons, cars, blogging format

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It’s a holiday weekend so it’s short today.

Yikes, it’s September! – Just like that summer is gone. It will go down as not a favorite. Excessive heat with a house project that moved us up to the overly hot upstairs bedroom made for a cranky Kate.

Book me a room at the dotty farm! – I’m not a car person. I drive a red RAV4. I could pick it out by its shape, but I usually head for the red car. On one of my Starbucks runs I came out and walked to a red car. I noticed a big white scratch on the front driver’s fender. I went up to it and felt it to see if it was something on top of the paint or a big gash digging into the paint. While I’m fondling the car, I noticed a person sitting in it. It was not my car. I explained myself and she laughed. I went to my car which was 3 slots over and did not have a big gash on the fender. I must pay better attention. I’ve already gotten in a car that wasn’t mine. How did I know? The music CDs were not something I’d listen to. (This was back when we popped a CD in the slot. My car no longer has that option.)

For bloggers – Did you notice WordPress is fooling around with format again. For a while on the top bar I would see “Reader” in English. Next to it were two circles with a line connecting them. I had no idea what it meant. When I hovered the Reader section lit up so I assumed it was “glasses” for reader. Fast forward a week. The English word is gone. It’s just the glasses icon and they moved it to the other side. Those prepubescent techies need to stop fooling around.

So how was your week?

 

48 thoughts on “Random 3 for September 1, 2024 – Seasons, cars, blogging format”

  1. I’m catching up on my blog reading and would like to say YES to your question about blogging on WP. What is with the shifting around of icons, use of different icons, and most significantly not letting me leave comments on blogs I follow in Reader? Think of these as rhetorical questions, but really how difficult is it to just leave things alone?

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    • The notifications icon has been moved around several times in the past few months. It’s back on upper right where it’s easiest to use. I blame it on prepubescent techies having fun with us resistant oldies.

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  3. Hee, hee…I had to chuckle about the Starbucks car story. Too funny. Yes, I’ve noticed WP is messing with things in a bunch of ways. Since I got a iWatch, I get notifications on it and when I click to make a comment, it bounces over so I now have to scroll down to the comment area. Grrr. So miuchg for the mobile app functioning. It used to take me directly to the comment. Sigh.

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  4. I hate when they miss with the interface like that. It took me forever to find the stupid Reader. I finally clicked on the glasses not because it meant anything to me (duh), but because I was desperate! Here’s to a fellow red car owner. It is indeed wonderful to not to have to look for it! – Marty

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  7. Funny story about you and your SUV. Great that the first pick did not belong to you. I would have felt lucky in all kinds of ways that the big white scratch was not mine! All the constant messing with the WP editor and their other tweaking wore me out and was the biggest reason I parked my blog. It became more frustrating than fun. Wishing you and the Sassy Cats a lovely second day of September.

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  9. I have a white SUV and have walked up to so many white cars I’ve lost county. It’s always embarrassing so I’ve started parking near a cart corral. It helps most times. 🙂 Yes – WordPress for Seniors where stuff doesn’t keep moving and changing. 🙂

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    • I try to pick a parking spot that I will find. Our local Costco is the worst. Part of it is angled and I lose my bearings so I started to park along the edge where I know I can find a parking spot and my car afterward.

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  10. That’s funny. My husband laughed at me yesterday for reaching for the door handle of the wrong car. All white suv’s look alike to me and there are a million of them! Not my fault. I’m glad for fall! Ugh, they really need to leave well enough alone, here.

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    • WordPress seems to marketing to the people that monetize their blogs and I get that. I don’t understand moving the icons around. It seems like every week there is something new and sometimes it takes me a while to figure it out.

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  11. That’s a hoot with the car – I can see that happening. My car is called “gold” and there are a lot of cars that color and body shape out there, although not that many 2009 Buick LaCrosses … I got to 13,000 miles today and my car will be 15 years old in a couple of weeks. I did not get the moving of Reader from one side to the other, nor the glasses icon. I don’t like the new way of scheduling posts either – ugh. Part of what tripped me up last Friday along with the new laptop – double ugh!

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    • I haven’t tried scheduling in a while so I didn’t fall across that. I received an email from someone asking to be deleted from the email notification. I didn’t know how to do that but I kicked around the admin part. I think I did it but I’m not sure.

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      • Hmm – I’m surprised there isn’t a way to just unsubscribe from a WP blog, like any other thing you unsubscribe from. I wish they’d quit fiddling around with things. I’d still be on my Windows 7 computer (which I like better than Windows 10) except for WP and Firefox no longer does updates, so it was freezing up all the time.

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  14. WOW…sign me up for the WordPress for Seniors too if that ever happens. Everyone wants us to think that the world is for the young but we young-at-hearters beg to differ. Make things easier for EVERYONE not harder! Good grief. Anyway, WordPress is always allowing the techies there to experiment and sometimes that’s good and almost always I ignore ALL of it if possible. Funny about fondling the wrong red car. Good that the woman in the car smiled at you. LOL

    Hugs, Pam

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  15. I love the car story, Weren’t ya glad that scratch wasn’t yours?

    As for WordPress, I’ve given up trying to figure out when they suddenly get ambitious. I’m from the old…if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.

    Summer was like the Reader’s Digest version. Can’t get over tomorrow’s Labor Day, fall in the wings.

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    • Reader’s Digest version for sure. Seems like more things are getting like that. Yes, I was starting to get annoyed with myself because I couldn’t remember getting it. It was clearly something she had done rather than a sideswipe.

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  16. “Fondling” the wrong car sounds like something I would definitely do. In my defense, there are many dark grey jeeps in our neighbourhood that look exactly like ours. 😀

    I still haven’t forgiven WordPress for making so many comments default to ‘anonymous.’ I truly want to know who is commenting. 😀

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  17. Techies love their icons, don’t they? It takes me longer to figure out the icon than it would to read “reader.” Same with some emojis. What I thought was a grey movie camera emoji turned out to be two people hugging once. We are moving from an alphabet to hieroglyphics!

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  18. I’m with you about the annoying habits of WordPress techies moving things around a lot. Maybe we need a Word Press for seniors who don’t much care for changes in their technology.

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