Now that I’ve recovered somewhat….

I should probably do a catch-up entry. I actually was a little shocked to see it’s only been three years since the Death of OD – it feels like a lifetime ago. And I’ve been on Prosebox all this time, although I don’t often write. To be fair, I had become a very infrequent writer in the last couple of years of OD too. I’ve been vowing for years to start writing consistently again, like I used to, and I’ve been failing for years. SO, maybe this is a reboot in more ways than one!

I’m still trying to figure out how all this works. I LOOOOVE the option to put a picture on each entry. Being so photo-oriented, that is just the best thing ever.  Ummm…why can’t I … Oh, there goes the italics.  I’m writing on an iPad, having switched from a laptop to an iPad Pro about a year ago after having yet another crappy heavy annoying laptop die way before its time, and having already fallen in love with my iPad mini. And just for the record, I’m even more in love with this one- it’s the smaller one, 9.something inches, so it’s very portable and also does everything I need my computer to do. But sometimes, like now, the touch screen isn’t as useful as the keyboard and I couldn’t get the italics off. I also bought a fantastic little keyboard pretty recently which I am using right now to type at roughly the speed o  f light, because I’m not a fast touch-screen typist and I can’t imagine trying to do an entry that takes more than a few lines by typing on the touchscreen. LOL, I can do italics on the keyboard; I don’t have to use the touchscreen. DUH.

Yep. Learning curve.

So. For any old friends that I haven’t “seen” since OD vanished, I’m still living in the frigid NC mountains, I’m still working at the university, I’m still married to Baker B and we still have our adorable cats, Eddie and Cayce.  We still live in the same horrifically decrepit house, in a student-infested neighborhood, despite our efforts to move. At this point it makes much more sense to just stay here because Baker B insists he is retiring in four years and I’m retiring in six years and we’re moving to Asheville (we’re actually moving to England but he hasn’t quite accepted that’s what’s really going to happen yet. He looooves England too but thinks we’ll just stay in Asheville and take trips to England. Foolish Baker B.) Anyhow, it would not make sense to move now. However, we do need to do some massive work to this house (for example, replace the nasty horrible carpet that needed replacing when we moved in TWENTY YEARS AGO).  There’s fodder for later entries.

Ok, I’m going to see if I can post pictures other than the great big one at the beginning of the entry. Which on this entry is very random and is the SuperMoon from last night. I am quite excited because I’ve finally, FINALLY figured out how to take a decent picture of the moon. (Set the camera to F 5.6, and the ISO to 800 and the… other thing… to 1/4000 or so. I always use my manual settings, and have a SLR, but still don’t understand what I’m setting anything on. I fiddle with it till it works, but since the moon never worked I finally googled how to do it).

Well. These are awfully small photos. I’m sure there’s a way to make them bigger, but I’m running out of time and the energy required to mess with them. Can you post from Flickr?? Flickr has become quite a bitch in recent years, but you can post from it on PB if you know the code to use, which is not at all the code Flickr says to use. I’ll experiment more later.