How can it be that I’ve been with WordPress.com for twenty years? Now, I haven’t posted here for twenty straight years. I was posting elsewhere like Tumblr and Google’s Blogger platform among others. To everyone who has visited here, read my posts, interacted with me, and shared their stories I thank you. This is a great community. Blogging is very much alive in the hearts and minds of those who believe in its power to tell a better story and share more.
Keep on Blogging Good People!
This Saturday morning required pancakes, sausage and Tim Hortons coffee. It was a great way to start the day. Have a great day good people.
The world is in such turmoil right now. Political upheaval, wars and rumors of wars, money woes and so much more. I believe in being up on things going on and sharing it with you. My heart and soul feels everything and I want to share what is going on in my head. I know this is my blog and I have the right to post whatever I want.
However, I need to figure out some balance between the bad and the good. The Artemis II voyage to the moon was something awesome and positive. However, the unnecessary war with Iran is a longer-term reality. Life is like that these days. Everything is going on all at once so it seems.
I don’t want you my blogging audience to think I am always negative, no one wants that. So I might start posting weird stuff that makes my weird heart happy. Some of it won’t make sense, but hopefully it will let you know that this blog is still about where I chronicle and curate the sacred, serious, and silly things in my life.
I hope that makes sense. What do you think? Feedback welcome.
Apple launched a new series of MacBooks recently called Neo. They are powered by the same chips that power iPhones. I think the company is producing so many new things that something you bought last year seems obsolete. That planned obsolescence cannot be good for the environment because of the e-waste it produces. We are also aware of Windows 11 making many systems obsolete too.
I am glad to do my part to keep older machines going as long as possible. Thanks to Linux working on perfectly good machines it can make a difference. It’s also fun and cool to keep an older system going with a little creativity such as more memory and SSDs. To the Linux community lets keep making our favorite distros better and easier for new users to come on board so they can save some time and money.
I recommend ZorinOS, Fedora or Linux Mint for anyone wanting to get into the Linux game. They are powerful operating systems that is easy on older systems. They are also full of features that will help you get things done such as web browsing, word processing, graphics, podcasts, email, music, gaming and more.
Two good people I know passed away recently. Mark who was a high school classmate and Jaye who was a fellow parishioner at church both passed away within the last couple of days. I liked both of them, and it saddens me that they are no longer with us. Jaye fought a 15-year battle with cancer and Mark had health issues of his own. Both men were good people. I am better for have known them and had them in my life. May their memories be a blessing. Godspeed good sirs.
Blessed are those who mourn.
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