I am trying a new blogging App called iA Writer. It is a general writing App that can publish articles to different formats including WordPress. The WordPress publishing feature is a bit cumbersome. The App publishes a Draft of your article to WordPress. Then, it makes you login to the article in the WordPress Editor to review and publish to your blog. Not quite as efficient as publishing to your blog directly, but it does…
By far the majority of today’s computer users are on Windows OS or macOS. Both of those operating systems have their strengths. I am a Mac guy, always have been. There is an alternative to all of this. If you are not happy with Windows OS spying on you or the locked down nature of macOS, you can always try the Linux OS. In the last 10 years or so, the Linux Desktop has come…
Trust is a very sensitive topic. We absolutely rely on it, but it is very easy to lose trust in people and institutions. And, it is very difficult to regain trust when it is lost. As a Police Officer of 30 years, trust is at the heart of the job. You develop a healthy distrust of the general public. Yes, many folks are just regular, good people. But, you still have to trust what they…
If you own a home, you will become somewhat adept at home maintenance. It is great if someone can afford home repair people for everything, but who can actually do that, not many of us.1 I am not saying I am the greatest repair person, but eventually you get some stuff right. There are always YouTube videos! One of the things I do at our house is painting. I would not attempt to paint the…
As previously mentioned, there are several things that I like to do with a computer that involve software you do not find on the Linux OS. One of those things is blogging. There is just no Desktop blogging software on Linux. The macOS, on the other hand, has several excellent blogging Apps. The ones that I use the most are Ulysses and MarsEdit for posting to my WordPress blogs. You can find many others in…
When I first moved to Colorado, I could not understand why the roads were so bad. After living out here through a Winter, I realized why that was. The roads are being plowed all the time because of the snow. They also have this sandy stuff applied to help with traction in ice conditions. Add to that the freeze / thaw cycle, you have roads that take a real beating. There is a lot of…
This is just my take from my personal experience over the last 78 years. Your experience may be different. I have had a handful of close friends over the years. Most of the close ones have come after I became a Christian in 1978. That is when I was given the opportunity for a close relationship with THE man, Jesus Christ. By the way, when I say a handful, I mean you can count them…
As previously mentioned, we have ¾ of an acre to take care of at home. I cannot name the times that I have been frustrated using gas powered yard equipment. It won’t start, or it just needs to have the carburetor rebuilt. It is always something. Over the last few years, I have gradually switched my yard equipment over to battery operated machines. I started using the EGO line which is really great. They have…
Even though I returned to using Macintosh computers recently, I still dabble in the Linux OS. It is fun to play around with Linux, but it just does not have the Apps I need for my daily workflow. At least for now. One of those Apps is email. The choices for email Apps on Linux are pretty lean. There is Thunderbird and a couple of others, pretty much all old school designs. They work, but…
Even though it is just Carol and I, we still find a great deal of benefit to maintaining an old Honda Accord. We could get by with one car, but having a second car is the equivalent of increased freedom, sort of. Inevitably, one of us wants to go do something when the other one has a Doctors appointment or something that just cannot be cancelled or rescheduled. Having that second car is very helpful…
