Blogging, Posts, Life

 Once a month I check all of the statistics on my blogs.  I commented that last time I did this I was seeing for the first time there were more I-Phone readers than computer readers!  It surprised me greatly.  I see people playing all of the time on their smart phones but my phone I fear is still a phone.  Yeah, it makes calls and takes texts from my oldest grand-daughter.

This past month I-Phone has surged way above computer based systems.  Well, it is flattering that people want to follow using their phones, it is sad the days of the PC seem to be numbered.  Any chance that real computers will make a resurgence?  Nah ... the PC mentality is a disease.

Anyway, for the past month, also for the first time, the number of US readers has passed by foreign readership.  And for the first time ever, no Swiss readers at all!  I do not know why.  Strange.  And the Russians seem to still just love my father's memories (Albert Arthur Plattner).

And the most popular post of all time, remains unchallenged. When I wrote it I never could have suspected that it would have such an attraction to people.  It is just stories about friends whom were able to find love against all odds.
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I am slowly resurrecting my old art blog, so slow, so painful!  Not to be a braggart, but I have been sort of surprised at how good some of those old paintings look.  Yeah, they all need work but when I think of what I just saw at the Washington State Fair in their painting division, well, yeah, they needed a bit of work as well!  And many of them are "masters".  No, not comparing myself, I have much to re-learn, learn and accomplish, but it seems a decade ago I was on the right road.   Now if only I had not allowed life to run over the top of me!
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I continue to work on the rewrite of my recipe site.  Between trying to redo the recipes to be more diabetic friendly, I have had to rewrite the posts because something in MicroSquish land changed Word to create XML instead of HTML.  I know HTML, XML is just painful to maintenance.  Sigh.  So, it is going slowly on that one.
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Almost all of the posts for this week were written a week or more ago as I am headed off to Oregon on Thursday, through Monday.  This might be fun or it might be confrontational, just the same as a similar trip in 2013, I am not comfortable with this trip at all.  And like that trip, perhaps this might be just be a groaner and of no value at all.  Oh well, we will see, taking plenty of nitro with me ...
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I am sitting here in a normal pair of shoes.  No big deal you think, but it is a first since 2013!  No, the foot still has far to go but the swelling is down so far that my right foot will finally squeeze into a XXX deep and high oversize shoe!  It feels weird and I do not like it, I want to have my brace back on!  But, I am cleaning the brace: I have the insert air-drying and will be Lysol spraying the boot itself.  So, a day or two of limping around in a shoe.

This cleaning is for the trip coming up.  Be nice to have a brace without food splattered all over it!  LOL
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Well, I have tons to do!
Ciao!