I'm Not The Only One.

There is a widget on my left sidebar showing a list of blogs I used to follow and read on a regular basis. The abandonment of my blog coincides loosely with the shutting down of Google Reader. Damn you, big tech! I clicked through a lot of those links recently and found at least half (if not more) are either abandoned like mine, completely gone, or turned into more of a business model - good for those people! But that was never for me.

The ones that surprise me the most are the blogs that have been entirely deleted. I mean - people wrote things, memorialized a moment in time, if you will. Several moments in time. And then for whatever reason were comfortable with wiping everything out. Not sure I could do that, regardless of whether or not anyone ever reads a thing I write, ever again. Seems almost like deleting a piece of your past, somehow.

At some point I will need to update that list, but if I'm honest - I don't read blogs anymore. Instagram caught my eye and people liked looking at pics of my cats (hey, something for everyone!) and blogs, candidly, started to take up too much time. So maybe I will just remove the ones that aren't current anymore, me thinks it will be a very short list by the time I am done.

We don't read as much as we used to and it's sad, our attention spans have gotten too short. Not sure what that means going forward but I'm not giving up cursive writing!!

Suffering

I am horribly dependent on my computer. Attached would not even begin to cover it. The last couple of days I have been getting errors of impending doom, a few blue screen of death errors and today, well, I am posting from my daughter's computer. Hi Dani! She is not home.


Today apparently I have no bootable devices. Sigh-h-h. So, if I am not visiting or commenting or even posting as much as usual, that would be why.


Oh and then - right after my laptop took a dump I went into the kitchen to throw something in the garbage and saw these black splotches on the floor. I had to get my glasses to see the splotches were ants. Freaking ants! Not very bright ants either. This house is on a slab and when we get a lot of rain like we did last night the ants decide that INSIDE is where they need to get out of the rain. So there was a trail of ants from the side door to in front of the garbage cabinet. They were all milling around a crumb or 2 not 3 feet away from cat food left over from kitty breakfast. ??? Fighting over crumbs while a veritable ant feast sat a few feet away.


The ants picked a bad time to mess with me. They are all very dead, the kitty food is in the garbage and my computer sits abandoned. Sounds like a really good time to take a nap.


Hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day without any ants or dead boot devices!