At Last!!!! I'm Back!!!

 So it seems this worked. Please comment on any formatting or spelling of size or other issues. Trying to make things readable without being to large! I'm so happy to be "fixed".

This, my friends, is a test of the emergency broadcast system.  A test of future plans to deal with the mess that is my technology if you will. I also wanted to let you all know where I’ve been and what’s kept me away.

 A large part of the absence is the technology issue mentioned below-and hopefully properly explained. But I’ve also reached that time when I wanted to seriously rather than casually evaluate time spent, and interest, and writing topics and to just decide if the blog should continue. How it should continue, assuming the below tech issues are resolved. I’m not comfortable just writing when I feel like it-I feel the need of some kind of schedule. And I want a little more direction if you will. Just writing about my day or week is also not my style. Obviously, assuming this test works for me. I’m here again to stay. To start with, I plan to blog on whatever moves me one day a week. At the end of the week I’ll have a blog in the money/frugal/sustainability type sphere, and somewhere in between if nothing else a photo only blog. Hopefully you will like what happens.

Now, let me share with you my woes. You see for years, I did not have a laptop. I used a tablet with an attached keyboard case (a large fire) and a phone. As often happens over time, the keyboard case died and I decided at least for now not to replace it but to use my fire just as a reader and keep it flat.  I can still get another one down the road but they are like sixty bucks and I figured I didn’t need one since my kids got me my own laptop (thank you kids). Unfortunately, when said kids set up the laptop for me, they created a brand new gmail address for the laptop in my name. Which shouldn’t be a problem, right?

Except. Blogger is under another gmail address, and no matter what I do (and I have done everything possible), it will not allow me to switch so I can access the blog on the tablet.   In every single other application or website, I can choose between the new one and the old one (including my drive and youtube and photos and all kinds of things). Blogger, being blogger, will not let me do that. It simply doesn’t change to my old gmail address under any circumstances. Which leaves me with two options. The first is typing on my phone (nope) and the second is typing this missive in google docs, reopening it on the tablet where I am the old gmail address and then copying and pasting. We’ll know if this works when I’m done here, and how much effort that takes. I’m assuming once I get everything down, that I will love typing on the laptop and editing and it will be easy to just copy and paste and add photos.  Again, we’ll see. If not, I won’t be getting a keyboard for the tablet until mid January at earliest so we’ll see what other solution we’ve got. This could be fun.

Assuming this works, believe me when I say I have plenty to share. Health news and experiences, fun stuff about my apartment community, new groups I have joined, stuff I have been making and rescuing and piles of works in progress that I have photographed as well as some finishes. Just to start with.

And of course we have to talk about that new one (virus I mean) just like the old one. What was that TV line about “just when you think it’s safe to go out of the house?”