I hate the word “blog”
So I will just write my personal thoughts, an online diary, whatever, but it is not a fucking “blog.” Blog. Sounds like walking in muddy shoes. Ugh.
I have my website set up now. It was as challenge. Sometimes progress moves from simpler to more complicated. Most of the time, I think. But when one is not following the trends, one tends to get lost after leaving and coming back. I am “one.”
WordPress got more fundamentally screwed up after I quit fooling with websites. When I returned a few days ago I tried writing my own site like I used to. I worked all day and just got it more and more screwed up. Eventually I deleted the entire WordPress site and started over. The second time around a little box asked me if I’d like AI help. Hmm. Don’t remember seeing that the first time. I said, “hell yeah, sparky, let’s go.”
It took only an hour or so to go from nothing to something. The something I got was a very nice looking website, the design of which I had nothing to do with. Sparky, aka AI girl (Has to be a girl, right?), did me proud. And saved my ass. I did not have the time to waste re-learning WordPress.
If you’re not a web developer or anything like that maybe all I just wrote makes no sense to you. Sorry. Had to get it out. Now I’ll move on.
Thanks to AI girl I started with a nice complete website. All I had to do was tweak it and change a few pictures. I had to delete a bunch of crap, too, since AI girl made up a website as if I was a corporate mogul. There was a listing of my “products,” bios for my “staff,” and a place for testimonials. All that went away. But I still kept some good parts. What do you think? Is AI girl good or what?
I confess that I relied upon AI girl to help tweak some of the writing, too. Not this blog (what sane AI girl would write like I do?) but the blurbs on the site here and there. Very handy she is. But she only goes so far. I turned to my old learnin’ to add things I needed like the infographic carousel and video players and shit like that. It’s all about finished now. So, again, what do you think?
My past is mostly dead. It died on a bed in a hospital four years ago. That’s a story for another time, but essentially when I left that hospital so incapacitated I had to be cleaned like a baby my life kind’of reset. So I am building this website as a four-year-old in some ways. I’m still trying to figure out where I’m going and where I’ll be tomorrow. Bare with me, ‘k?
I said that to say this: I’ve created this website to explore my “new” life and, of course, to put all my work dealing with the election in one place. At the moment my world is wrapped up in the election, though without a car and living in a Trumpian hell hole the only thing I can do is trundle around online and maybe inspire a few folks. Hope so.
For now I’m off to do something productive, maybe, or just goof off some more. Either way, I’m done with this bit of writing. So long and fare well. And come back soon.
Ted Gresham, September 6, 2024