I kind of hate this, except for the parts I like? Let’s see if we can fix them.
Hold off on comments for the time being; I’ll let you know once I’m done futzing and then you can tell me I’ve wrecked everything if you want to.
Category: Blogwanking
A puzzlement
It has been pointed out to me that, since October 22nd, when you click through to read an individual post off of the front page, the text all becomes black and it is very hard to read against the dark background. I cannot for the life of me figure out what has caused this change, nor can I see anywhere where I even have the option to change the font color in this theme absent changing the colors of virtually everything, much less make a change that only effects clickthrough pages or direct links rather than the front page.
Anybody have any idea what might be going on?
(ETA: I’m convinced that despite the black color going back to the 22nd, this phenomenon only started within the last couple of days. I look at posts through direct links all the time, and I didn’t see this until reading the comment about it this morning.)
Just a quick thought
I think at this point it’s safe to say that I have rid myself of Twitter. The blog is still cross posting there and I check in once a day but I’m not posting there any longer.
What, do you think, will it take to be quit of TikTok?
God damn it
I just almost went three days without posting, and I don’t remember the last time that happened. I was about to say “…without serious illness being involved,” but I genuinely don’t remember the last time I missed three straight days. No real reason; I’ve been busy with various things (lots of housecleaning and rearranging going on, and I’m getting the office ready for my new desk, which ought to be here in a couple of weeks) and we’ve had family over for the last couple of nights, but … damn, I meant to post today, at least.
Oops?
Whoops
The day kind of got away from me– I got home from the comic shop, drank a big glass of eggnog, and took a nap, and I’ve been faffing around on the PS5 all night– so expect two posts tomorrow. I’ll do both of my book posts for the year. In the meantime, I’m still playing through God of War: Ragnarök over on The YouTubes, and you haven’t subscribed yet, so go take care of that.
Station Identification, Nov. 5 2022
This used to be a whole thing that I did every week, and I got out of the habit several years ago, when it stopped being as important to me that everyone who follows me here also follows me everywhere else. However, I figure that what with the entire social media universe in complete upheaval at the moment, it’s probably useful to start doing it again at least occasionally.
Note that my Linktree has convenient links to literally every single one of these places if you’d like to just click on that and save yourself trouble, but I’m going to go through everything anyway.
- The big one is my blog, infinitefreetime.com, and you’re already here unless you’re looking at this through some sort of RSS thing, and I don’t even know if you can do that. The blog turns 10 next year, I own it, and while I go through periods of more and less frequent posting, I’m not going anywhere, and coming here will be the most reliable place to find me for the foreseeable future.
- Second most-active is my YouTube gaming channel, lutherplaysgames.com. I almost shut this down once and then decided against it, and right now I’m back to having fun with it. It’s also the account that I’m most interested in growing, so if you aren’t subscribed you really should go click on it. You’ve got a YouTube account already even if you’re not using it so you may as well subscribe to me. 🙂
- I still have ten thousand followers on Twitter and still post there regularly, although that follower count has dropped by a few hundred this week due to Shenanigans. Be aware that my Twitter is considerably more profane and more political than my presence here, if that’s something that might bother you, although I also do a lot of book discovery over there. I will genuinely miss Twitter if it dies.
- I don’t post on TikTok as often as I used to but I’m still reasonably active over there and it’s still a huge Goddamn time sink.
- Everyone should follow me on Goodreads even though I don’t use the social features there at all. Just, like, do it. I have 712 friends over there and they all found me. I don’t know anywhere near 712 people.
- I just started a Discord server today, just for the hell of it. There’s really nothing there at the moment but that link will allow anyone to join if they want, assuming I set it up correctly.
- OKAY THIS ONE I’M SERIOUS ABOUT: I just started playing with Duolingo recently and while it’s not quite a social media network, if you’re using it I’d love some more friends. Right now I’m doing Spanish, Japanese, Arabic and Welsh simultaneously and I’m enjoying the hell out of myself.
- I have also started accounts on Mastodon and Tribel, and right now I don’t know a Goddamn thing about either of them and Tribel in particular looks like it’s going to be something I quickly walk away from, but those seem to be the two most common destinations for Twitter refugees at the moment so I’m giving them a shot. If you’re over there, hit me up.
So. Yeah. Follow me! On all the things! And if there are other places I should be checking out, let me know!
In which I think not
Missing a day once in a while is no big deal, even if I don’t do it very often. But I refuse to be busy enough to miss two days in a row, even if the post for that second day is a ridiculous two-sentence half-assed excuse for a blog post.
This one is three sentences.
In which I should have guessed
…never give them two posts on a Saturday. It inevitably leads to a Sunday in which I’m either too busy or too stressed out to write anything. Today was “too busy,” I think; I actually got a fair amount of stuff done around the house, so that was good, but none of it involved, like, words.
Go give somebody a hug; I’ve got to go over my kid’s homework with him.
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