Well it's been awhile. And perhaps we could all share a laugh at my expense. I lost my old blog. However a very good friend who is your neighbourhood retired I.T. guy helped me research a new place, with a new name so I could continue my online therapy. That was three weeks ago. And in those three weeks I have sat here in front of my computer only to discover the one thing my Mac and I have in common........ Blank screen and a blank mind.
I have never felt so blocked. My I. T. guy is away at the moment. We will be seeing him soon and there are a host of things he can assist in making this whole thing a little more normal. For instance, When I was going through the whole composition menu, I typed the title first. Nothing wrong with that, but then I noticed under the title line was a "Bold" button. So I thought "what the heck" and clicked on Bold. For the life of me I a can't turn it off. I have my iPad beside me and have googled how to turn it off. The tutorials include somewhere in the vicinity of eight million items. I am sure the answer as to how this pesky bold print disappears is in there. I am a little dyslexic, and a whole lot A.D.H.D. which makes such research without the ability to refine..... well..... I may as well be trying to climb Everest. In fact I have a better shot at the latter.
I then decided to uncenter my photo. ( On one of those annoying sidebars, it is a photo I took one morning in Spain just as the sun was rising and I was about to walk a beautiful 20km day. That could have been a good story.) I thought I would move the photo to the right side and start my story down the left flank. My I.T. guy showed me how to do that along with notes he had typed out for me. I tried that about a half an hour ago. You would not believe some of the visuals I got from typing left, centre, right, standard, gobbly goop, gobble goop, mushigooshgoosh.
Carol came running down the stairs to see what the vulgar language was all about. Her anger turned to concern by that time as she found an aging man blubbering over a keyboard. As she gently asked what was wrong, all I could get out was "I want my blackberry!" She put her hand on my shoulder in a soft and caring voice said "Awe honey. You couldn't do a thing with your Blackberry either." It's true. All I wanted when I got my Blackberry was my old flip phone. But time and Steve, and Bill wait for no-one.
Now I am a visual learner and while I was being instructed by my my good friend Alberta Bob who is a very good teacher, things were making sense. But that was three weeks ago, and I would have been far better equipped had I only been able to write something then. It just wasn't there. I was just home from the Camino. I had already shared my experiences with you, my online therapists. The political climate and intense unhappiness and anger that is pretty well global these days doesn't bring out the best in, well, anybody. I don't want to contribute to that ugliness that surrounds us. I just couldn't come up with anything.
But I am going to try....hard. I'm off to America in a few days. My wife has bought me a key board for my iPad, and I will be seeing my I.T. guy. I will have time to get back or be better than my normal. On a new blog site that doesn't have pretty colourful back grounds but does have spell check. Pretty good trade, nes pas? And maybe the next time you tune into asianseesit, the print will be normal sized so you won't think I am yelling at everyone.
Who knows? This may turn into a good thing. It may also be that those of you who have moved on with me will spend the next decade or so reading a blog written in bold type without print down the left flank of a photo. But hey! That may just be As Ian Sees It.
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