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Hello all you grand people.   I recently asked how people felt about the colors I use on the different paragraphs on things I post.   And I enjoyed all the feedback I got, learned some things, and realized something about why I do the coloring.   

First is the fact that when I write my own thoughts before the subject post or like this, I use bold and the color blue.   Why do I do that?   Because I love the color blue and the bold helps me read it.    As I thought about why I do that I figured out that the coloring started because of my trouble reading the articles on the screen.   I have better vison the last couple years as my eye doctor figured out that I needed prisms in my glasses, but my vision still is not great.    I use 34 inch screens and rarely use my phone for anything I can do on the computers.   That is why I did not know that the phone / tablet WordPress app changed how the posts looked.  I started the coloring of paragraphs because the theme I was using had a light grey for the main type and I struggled to read it, so I changed the colors.   Then I found that when I would read an article I wanted to share I would get more out of each paragraph as I went through the article and colored each different paragraph with different colors.  The information made more of an impression as I went over it again to add the colors.   

As I read the replies it was Barry’s reply that gave me the key I needed.  See I want people to read / watch what I share but I also realize that my many interests are not shared by everyone else weird as that may seem, and people will read different posts based on their own interests or opinions on subjects.   Barry pointed out that those that don’t like the colored versions of my posts can read them in both the WP reader and the WP app on phones and tablets.  I did check and if you use a browser to open my blog you still get the colors.   That also helped me decide.   

I have decided to keep using colors in my posts.  Not only do they help me to read the posts and some people liked them such as Jill and Ali, but as I mentioned those that don’t like the colors have ways to read the posts without them.   But most importantly, as those who responded reminded me, it is my blog and it is an expression of my own creativity not just on content but how the content is displayed.  I like the colors.   I like the one queer news blog I go to that when you highlight the text the paragraphs change colors similar to when I do it.  I think it sets my blog apart from a sea of other ones.   

I really want to thank everyone that replied to my questions on both colors and other things on my blog.  If no one read it, I doubt I would put so much work into it.   Really I can read and watch stuff a lot faster if I was not trying to share so much of it, but I really enjoy the sharing of things.   Got to run, I have a saved bunch of stories to read and maybe post.   Best wishes and Hugs to all.   Scottie

OT but important.   Some people for their own reasons struggle with the idea of hugs at the end of my posts and comments.   Please understand these are not sexual hugs but emotional virtual hugs to express support and caring for others.   It is like the family hugs at holiday get together.   Those who know me understand that growing up I rarely received non-sexual positive touch and as an adult I realize how it affected me and much I missed out on not having it.   After I became an adult and got used to being touched nicely and non-sexually, I realized how positive, how great it made me feel.    I really enjoy the touch on the arm, the pat on the back, the simple nice contact with others who don’t require or demand something from me.  I think there is a reason many cultures have these kinds of contact between people socially.   That said if it upsets you when I reply to your comments by ending with these types of hugs, please let me know.   I will try to remember and not to use the virtual hugs, but instead simply give best wishes.   I may sometimes goof and still give hugs but please forgive that it is not a deliberate attempt to disregard your feelings.  People and their feelings are important to me.    Best wishes / Hugs

 

Hello Wonderful people.   For those like Nan who keep telling me to step back from the news and the blog, today you got your way.   During the night last night (that would have been Thursday night to Friday morning) as I laid awake from before 2 AM I thought about the plans Ron had to go to 6 stores to get the soda I love and drink all day.

Side point I got used to drinking non-caffeine diet soda and Ron demanded it not have aspartame in it.   He found an RC cola named Diet Rite that had Splenda instead and for years he bought me that.   Then it got really hard to get, so he also looked into other store brands, and he found that Publix store brand caffeine free diet soda also had no aspartame and to me it tasted just like the RC diet rite soda.  See I cannot stand most diet sodas, they have a horrible after taste to them, take a sip and after it goes past the tongue and you swallow it comes back with a huge bitter taste.  I won’t drink them.  

But just like the RC Diet Rite the Public soda has suddenly become hard to get.   We are not sure why as all the other public soda is on the shelves.   Because it has become so hard to get, anytime people find it they take all of it on the shelves.   I don’t blame them as I do the same thing.  It has to be something to production of just that one kind, maybe it is made by the same company that makes the RC cola.  I am sure it is not just the universe watching which soda I like then tightening the supply to drive me crazier than normal.  

New day got up seriously late at 8 AM.   

Let me finish with my day yesterday.   I decided I would go with Ron to the stores.   That took until noon.   When we got home neither of us diabetics had eaten and since we bought hamburger, I made up some tacos.  I love tacos and like anything I cook I dash it up with my own additives.  Family seems to love it.    Then we went for a nap.  Only I did not get up until five o’clock.   I started to do some computer stuff but then the subject of supper came up.  Ron said he did not want to cook and reminded me he had asked me to make a tomato red sauce for spaghetti and other pastas for a few days.  So I did.   I have a thing about tomato red sauce, I feel it doesn’t have to taste the same every time.  In fact I don’t want it to.   This time I did not want a sweet basil taste so I went very light on the basil, a tad heavier on the oregano, lighter on the garlic even though we all love garlic here, sage as I did not want sausage in the sauce, more of the secondary seasonings.   I wanted a very smooth sauce so I used less hamburger and cooked it in the tomato base and chopped the vegetables very fine, making a very smooth light sauce.   I did not put in tomato paste which I normally do as we like a thicker sauce normally and it adds a deeper tomato flavor.  I added black pepper but no salt, again slight changes that make a large taste difference.   Then I let it cool and put the entire pot in the refrigerator for the night.  Then Ron made homemade meatballs but while I normally cook them in the tomato sauce instead this time I had him bake them first to drain any oils off so I wouldn’t need any tomato paste.   By the time I was done it was very late for me and I had taken extra medications all day to keep going all day.   That is why I slept so late.   

 Ron loved having me engaged in tasks with him instead of being on the computers reading / watching news and dealing with my blog.   However again it put me another day behind on comments.  And I might need to sleep a lot today for all the extra activity and extra medications.   Going out with Ron to the stores was a way to break the rut I had gotten into about not leaving the house.  Like the tomato red sauce life it best when it is not always the same.   It needs to have different flavors by changing up the amounts of each ingredient.    Hugs

 

I think I asked this question before but I can not find the post to see the comments.  Sorry I am buried with things I need to do, you should see my white board there is very little white space left.   

My question is about the paragraphs and my changing their colors to make them stand out.    I started that because the old theme was so pale it was hard for me to read.   I see this done on other blogs and I like the look, so I do it for most posts.   What do you think, does the colors make it easier to read or harder?   Should I continue to do it or just leave the quoted parts the color they are?  This time I will remember to check this for comments.   Thanks.   Hugs

This is what I am trying to understand and fix.   The other day it said What are you wearing.    I dumped and cleaned both computers, I turned on two step verification and instead of fixing the issue I managed to lock out a 1TB hard drive and lose the recovery partition on the main blogging computer’s SSD.  So far I am losing the war here with this.   I have wrote to WordPress to see what they can find out for me.    Hugs

 

I am interested in the viewers’ opinion of the categories I use to sort posts.   I got into a big mess with my first blog where I had such a long list of categories / subjects I was frustrated having to go through such an awfully extensive list of categories.    When I started this blog at first I was not going to have categories and then decided to bunch them up to make the list of choices short.   But that has led to categories that have two or more different subjects such as Animals / Children / Food being used for only one of those subjects leading people to wonder where the other two are in the post.    Is this confusing for you the wonderful readers of the posts?   Would it be better to expand the categories to single issues / subjects or just stop using them at all?  Let me know.   Hugs

Hello Everyone.   7 days ago I made a joyful post about my system being back up in a temporary place using the kitchen table.  But when I got to the comments on that post I noticed that only one of the four pictures I tried to put in the post went in.   Yes I need to start checking posts after I publish the post.  So I took a video of the setup to show everyone.   Yes I was speaking but the words are not important, the important thing is the visual of the setup.   Best wishes and hugs.

OT:  An update on how sick I was.   I was really ill with a high fever, but I took Tylenol and it kept the fever down and it broke late last night.  But today I have a baseball sized swelling under my arm in my arm pit.   It is a swollen lymph node and it is irritatingly painful.  I am not so much bothered by it but it freaked Ron out.   He did not realize how sick I was yesterday.    Hugs