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The momentum of dragging feet is not very fast.

1/23/2014

 
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I've a confession to make: I missplaced my momentum and can't seem to remember where I put it.

I've written about momentum before. It's a thing that is hard to find and easy to lose, perhpas because life is so full of distractions.  Or perhaps, I'm just dragging my feet...
But let me first tell you this. Every story has a finish point. This does not mean that the story is perfect. Far from it. However, some stories are just what they are. Tinkering with them won't change that. Meat Head the Worst Dog in the World is one of those stories. And it's ready as it's ever going to be, has been for months. 
I made the decision a while back because of the kind of book Meat Head is and because I'm writing such different stuff now to publish it under a different Pen Name. But I haven't felt sure about that because... I don't know. Anyway, I've decided now to K.I.S.S. it. (Keep it simple stupid.) 
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So, less is more but I'm still dragging my feet. Perhaps I need to see a pediatrist?

Weebly woes: I hate to love Weebly but I like to eat my cake too

1/16/2014

 
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I was going to write about something completely different. I even downloaded a photo and set about uploading it because Weebly lacks the ability to important an image from a link. I'd really like that feature.

Anyway, I found myself once again uninstalling and reinstalling Flash. If I exclude Weebly from the equation, I can't think of any other website or service that requires an "updated" version of Flash so often.
My irritation is two fold. Since Weebly updated their site, I have had to update flash every time I wanted to upload a photo. This is true for all the computers I use. That's the first fold. The second fold is their help department  also known as the let-us-tell-you-why-it's-you're-fault-guys. For whatever reason Weebly ignores trouble reports. Oddly enough, my last blog yapping about the woes of Weebly bugs resulted in a lot less bugs.

So, here's why I love Weebly. When it works, it's great. Here's what I love and hate about Weebly. If users (like me) blog about the troubles we have with the service, the corporate powers that be take notice and the issues get fixed. However, I dislike blogging about Weebly Woes.

Finally, because I like to eat my cake too, can someone fix the auto save bug that makes it hard to edit blog titles? Maybe delay the auto save feature a second or something? I don't know.

Thanks!

Updates:
1/31/2014- Still having photo upload issues. Uninstalled/ reinstalled flash for the millionth time, cleared browser cash, and logged back into Weebly. Finally able upload a photo. Needless to say, this is a pain in the *. 

2/09/2014- The  bug with editing titles seems to have been fixed.  However, I still can't upload photos without reinstalling flash.  Fix it Weebly, I beg of you.

3/6/2014- I have un-installed and reinstalled flash halve a dozen times since I last posted about this issue. I finally emailed Weebly who has responded by confirming that Weebly doesn't work on Explorer. What? I use Firefox but I've had this issue on Chrome as well as other browsers. Anyway, so far their solution is: Weebly is not the problem, though perhaps using Chrome will solve the problem after I uninstall  and reinstall the browser. Yes, their solution to my problem with having to uninstall/ reinstall flash is to uninstall/reinstall Chrome.

5/6/2014
The uploaded was working pretty good-- I've only reinstalled flash five times since I posted about this issue in March and seems to be primarily limited to Sexy Computer. Big Bertha hasn't had any problems since I purchased her three weeks ago after giving up on the
<s>{work computer}</s> dinosaur. Can't really blame Weebly for the up-loader not working on that. A lot of things didn't work right on that computer. However, for the last two weeks I've been having up-loader failure on the desktop. I ignored it, worked around it, and finely sent an SOS. To be fair the SOS started with, I'm probably wasting my breath but....

Weebly responded with a copy and pasted message about Bit Defender. I stopped reading after, "
Unfortunately, if the issue persists, you'll need to contact BitDefender's support for assistance."  (I wonder if customer support  is replaced with robots would  the responses will be less robotic?) Three days later I got a chance to rank the helpfulness of this message.  I replied like this: Bad

Anyway the head of support offered to help. "Help included the following:  we have millions of happy user; We offered to help you more at the end of our copy and pasted solution. ( I stopped reading the "solution" that didn't apply. My bad.) You didn't explain the issue clearly enough. (Or perhaps, support didn't read my issue , opting instead for copy and paste); You haven't contacted us about this issue since March. (Clue gun: When customers stop trying to get help, that means they feel like asking for it is pointless.)

8/11 2014

I have no major complaints against Weebly at this time. Photos are loading on every computer except my work computer. I like their new feature which allows users to drop photos into text, but I dislike that I can only drop one photo into a test box and thus must create multiple text boxes to get the picture text affect. There used to be a feature that allowed you to create columns. Now they have a "smart column feature" and I think it's "intelligence" is one reason you can only drop one photo into a text box. It creates a new column when you try to drop a second picture.  Titles still auto-save any minute change. This makes editing the titles a bit like whack-a-mole. Often I just delete the title and retype a new one. However, it's better than it was so... small steps, I guess. 

Weebly does eventually fix the bugs. However, I think that bug fixes take longer than they should because they don't listen to average users.

Emotional Blackmail: loving other people's children

1/10/2014

 
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 My former roommate's boys were great kids and I miss them. My good friend Burt asked me what I was going to do... whether I would go back to visit or call. I told him I didn't know.
This conversation happened a few weeks back and I still don't know.  But I miss the boys. They occupied my every Saturday for nearly a year.

I'm not keen to intereact with Mr. Wilson. I know he manipulated me-- people always manipulate eachother, even friends, but often their motivation is transparent. I don't know is the extent to which he was pulling my strings. Somehow it felt like he wasn't and he was all at the same time.  I still haven't reconciled the man he projected himself to be with the man I came to know.. I simply don't know  and in the end I loved children to whom I have no family ties.

Here's the thruth about loving other people's children:  parents are giant children. But when they get angry, instead of slinging stones, they can and often do, toss around emtional blackmail. Mr. Wilson didn't exactly do this, but it didn't exactly not happen either. While my sistuation was muddy, sometimes the situation is black and white.

Dear friend,

If you side with my ex, I will turn the kids against you.


I don't have any difinitive answer on this. I've just been missing the boys. 
If you have ever loved another person's children,  then you understand how hard it can be when the friendship ends.

Gold Rush Alaska: smell it and weep

1/5/2014

 
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One of my secrete pleasures is Gold Rush Alaska, minus all the talk show specials. (Where the producers bore us.)

If you watch this show, one thing becomes clear. Gold mining ain't easy.
Gold mining is often asociated with getting rich fast. Writing is also often associated with this as well. The average Joe, Jane and Dick think that writers in general are rich.... that writing a book in and of itself is a way to get rich quick.

I think the real reason I like Gold Rush is not gold, but how hard the people work. There's also a gamblers element to the work, something I think every writer can understand. We are all estentially rolling the dice, playing for a chance at the big time.

However, reaching the big time rarely comes without struggle. And whether it e mining for gold or writng stories, tears will be shed. Perhaps the most interesting part about it is, is not the pursuit of riches, but the pursuit of a dream.

Gold miners don't quit their job because they struck it rich. In fact they reinvest almost all their earnings back into mining. Why?

I think it's the because the pursuit is more rewarding than the destination. In other words, life's about the journey. Remember smell those freaking roses... or diseal fumes, horse manure, or old glue bound books. Smell it and weep because it's rarely about the money. 
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    Mariel R. is an ESL teacher, horse trainer, writer, editor, sporadic blogger,  and lover of beer. She lives in South Korea with two house cats, three horses, a German Shepherd and three barn cats .

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