A Bone To Pick

Ok, something happened to me today and I have to get this off my chest. Sometimes, I feel like I just can't win in my struggle to get a few things done each day besides answer e-mail, read blogs and occasionally post an entry to my own blog. Alright, I do a few other things besides those above - I do babysit my 3-year-old granddaughter and her brother - now almost 8 months old - and yes, I do cook most of the meals here too. A little time maybe to read, knit or sew beyond those things and the tv - well, that is pretty much it!

But this morning, while reading through the blogs I ALWAYS try to check on, someone there had the nerve, the unmitigated audacity and GALL to send me to look at someone else's website before answering a question on her site. Brother!

As if I don't have enough reading of blogs to do in the first place ya know? Here she is telling me to go read this site and tell her my thoughts about an article posted there after I did that.

Well, being the dutiful little blogger (I use the term "little" very, very lightly there), off I went to the directed website. And I read the article, which was indeed very interesting. And then, I read an other entry, and another and yet another and well, by now, you see the plight I am in, I am sure.

And to add insult to injury, this happened to me with not just one of my favorite bloggers but with two of them who sent me off to read and I darned near never returned then!

Now, I have extra work to do in a couple of ways. First, I have to go find my bookmarks for the two new sites they shipped me off to check and then, add them to my list of favorite blogs, but every day, this will now extend how much time I will have to expend before I am able to get around to posting some really wonderful words in a semi-literate fashion here, for you, my faithful readers to peruse!

So, if I run later and later each day in getting to writing at least one posting here, don't blame me because it is all their fault. I won't tell you which bloggers of which sites are the guilty parties either. You'll have to check each of them - same as I did - to find that out!

Aren't you glad you aren't waiting for me to cook supper for you now too - everyday!???

Check This Out!

Good Sunday Morning to everyone! And, after reading an e-mail response I got from a guy trying to help me understand more about my blog and problems I have been having with it, I think maybe I can say too "It's a beautiful day here in Pennsylvania!"

I've been trying for the past couple of days to put something on my blog - a header over the links I have there - and all to no avail! Everything I did, came out wrong.

So, I e-mailed this gentleman (Peter) who had helped me a few weeks back - early on in my blogging experience anyway - and asked him if he could help me and if it could be done using really simple, easy-to-understand English (not lots of computerese talk) for this blogger dummie!

What I got back from him was indeed really easy - I think - to understand. And, I have posted on my links site too, the blogsite of his with his explanation and solution - complete with screen shots plus as easy as one can possibly make it instructions to use! I'm still not 100% sure I resolved my problem but you can see I do have a header above my links that says "Blogs I Like To Read" now, so I maybe at least got half the battle won!

Anyway, Peter (my quasi-instructor here) informed me that several of his friends and acquaintances, etc., had been prodding him about the idea of putting his instructions together into perhaps an e-book type of thing - really true blogging for dummies instructions - and if all the things he could sandwich into a book like that, under the various headings for those of us who are computer challenged from time to time (or all the time!), were posted in an easy-to-follow format like what he has in this link, do you think it would be something helpful for you, that you might access when you hit on a problem, have a question about blogging, etc?

Check it out and let me know your thoughts on this!

And, here's hoping his suggestions to me really do hold water too!