My wife has a work event tonight so the boy and I will be on our own for dinner and entertainment. I guess we’ll have to get pizza and watch movies. Bummer.
I’m messing around with cross-posting options for Micro.blog, Wordpress, Medium, Twitter, etc. Apologies for the clutter.
Trying Something New at Micro.blog
By now many people who care are either outraged or happy Elon Musk is (probably) buying Twitter. There’s also some people who land in the middle.
Those people are concerned about what might happen but not enough to leave Twitter in protest. Instead, preferring to stay and get into some “good trouble.” For the moment, I’m in that camp.
But even if I do stay on Twitter, I’m also exploring other options. That brings me to Micro.blog.
It’s like Twitter in some ways but different in others. To really know what I’m talking about, you should probably just check it out for yourself. If you want to follow me over there, I’m @ChrisU
I also bring this up because I’m going to let Micro.blog start cross-posting to this blog. It’s a test to see if it’s more useful than annoying. I guess we’ll see.
(Update: Well, I guess I’m a bit dumb. Turns out I can post to Micro.blog from here but not, as yet, the other way around. So yeah, you won’t be seeing anything from Micro.blog on here until they work out how to do it. As you were.)
So, (don’t) expect frequent short posts on here in addition to the longer ones that appear, well, not as often as I’d like. I know, I know. I’m working on it.
That’s it for now. Try to be kind to each other. We need it now more than ever.
Finally figured out what I was doing wrong trying to manage Screentime on my son’s iPad. It took way too long to find the solution. To think people used to pay me to know this stuff.
Happy to see it’s Thursday. That means Friday is right around the corner. It’s nice to be able to count on something these days.
According to science I have “minor” sleep apnea and should probably be using a Cpap machine. No better day to find this out than May the 4th.
A friend suggested I take a personality assesment. I did and accoring to the assesment I’m a Protagonist Personality ENFJ-A. I guess? Maybe.
There’s a new episode of my podcast @TheFlickcast out today. Find it on all the usual platforms. Also, here’s all the links if that makes it easier: linktr.ee/TheFlickc…
My dog decided that 4:30AM was the perfect time to wake up, bark and growl loudly and lunge at the windows trying to attack the sprinklers going off next door. Good times.
Yes, I still maintain a personal blog at chrisullrich.net. In fact, it’s been going “strong” since 2004. Here’s my latest post: chrisullrich.net/2022/04/2…
Hello @help I can’t seem to get what I post here to also post on the bird site. Any suggestions or assistance appreciated.
2022 Continues to Be Okay I Guess
I didn’t mean to leave you hanging this long. My apologies. In my last post I said I’d come down with “something” that may or may not have been COVID.
Long story short, I don’t know if it was COVID but it only lasted a week or so and I feel fine now. I did end up finding a way to get tested, though. The kid’s school has a deal with some testing sites and he and I went to one, waited three hours, and got a swab shoved into our nostrils so far it came out our ears.
No, not really. It just felt like it. Of course, I went first to show him it was no big deal. He was very brave, especially after the first nostril. We got ice cream after, as you do.
We both tested negative, so who knows? He did end up up getting sick too and lost his sense of taste and smell for a couple days, which seemed like COVID to me. But again, he tested negative so we’ll never really know I guess.
We’re both fully vaxxed, by the way. If we did have COVID, I’ll assume that’s why we didn’t have more serious symptoms. I’m must glad it wasn’t more serious no matter the reason.
Since then, we’ve avoided any more sickness at the house and Summer is a month away. Fingers crossed we make it without further incident. The kid continues to wear a mask at school, even though it’s not “mandatory” anymore.
Removing the mask mandate was yet another fucking stupid decision on the part of our government, but I’lll try to keep my rants to a minimum this week. No promises, though.
Let’s just say I’m still not impressed with the way our governments, Federal, State and local, have handled the pandemic. We’re just lucky it wasn’t much worse. Of course, tell that to the families and friends of all the people who’ve died from COVID. They’re probably not too impressed either.
And as if we didn’t have enough problems, it looks like man-child Elon Musk is buying Twitter. I’m sure he’ll make it a much better place to socialize. Yeah, no doubt in my mind whatsoever. Yeah . . .
In unrelated news I’ve started to explore alternatives to Twitter. So far, I’ve landed at Micro.blog. I’m @ChrisU on there, just like on Twitter, so I should be easy to find. You may want to check it out.
I’m also making The Flickcast podcast every week with my pal Joe Dilworth. It’s going great and still fun, so I plan to continue doing it until people tell me to fuck off. So far, so good.
Finally, I’ve started drawing and painting again. I was inspired by my friend Dave Caolo, some books I saw on Urban Sketching and the Urban Sketching World website. Basically, you go to a place (city street, cool building, wherever) and sketch/draw it with pen and ink and then add some color with watercolor paint.
It’s really been fun, even though I’m not very good at it (and that’s being kind). Still, art of any kind is wonderful. It’s also great therapy and allows you to free your mind and not think about horrible shit all the time. Not that I do that.
I only think about horrible shit the appropriate amount of time.
Okay. I’ll try not to make the time between posts so long from now on. I know you all miss me when I’m gone too long.
Oh, that’s one of my drawings at the top of this post. It’s a photo of it from my sketchbook. Yes, I have a sketchbook. I’m an artist now, don’t you know.
It’s not the worst I’ve done and I don’t hate it, so that’s something. I’ll keep at it.
Okay. Gotta go. Until next time, be kind to each other.
Speaking of my podcast. It’s called The Flickcast and there’s a new episode today. Why not check it out? Available on all podcast platforms. Or, find liks here: linktr.ee/TheFlickcast