I just have to write a little something about this.
If my article title offends anyone, I apologize ahead of time, before I go on.
Yes, I am an ASSHOLE! But, I’m not a perfect one.
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Blog Maintenance – I know it hurts but Bury those Dead Posts.
I know, your Blog count is really high and you actually smile a little when you see that counter go up every time you release a new Post.
But, you can be your own enemy when it comes to people following you.
Over time we write articles that are pertinent to those times and you get some readers who give you good comments as well as some new followers. But, when you look back many of these posts will have become dated.
I was just Thinking? – Where have the Verbal Combatants gone?
I know! It’s a strange question, but I was just wondering.
For most of my life, i could pick an argument whenever I wanted.
People had opinions!
Now, for some reason our society has been turned into what was once called a collection of “milk-toasts”. These days, supposed “intelligent” people avoid confrontation and dodge disagreements.
A red face and flying saliva from a distorted mouth is no longer a sign that a person has strong feelings about a subject. Rather it’s looked on as being crude and impolite. And, sad to say, someone will probably mention their mental health.
Where did the need for passionate feelings go? Continue reading
I’m just Having a Great Day, that’s all!
I just thought I would let everyone know.
I’m having a good day, today.
You know how it is, some days you get up and you (or your body?) just isn’t in sync with the world.
Something might ache a little more than normal, or your brain is a mili-second out of sync with the physical universe, and you keep tripping over things, or dropping things, or whatever. Continue reading
Write on HubPages, make money like a good web parasite
That’s what i said; be a good web parasite.
I write a lot of my articles on HubPages and I recently had my 5-year anniversary writing on the HP site.
During that time, I have learned a lot of interesting things about writing informational articles that make money. Not a lot of money, but a decent enough money to keep me involved and creating.
Click on the link below to se my latest HubPages article about how to make money sitting on your ‘duff” at hime.
How to make money on HubPages being a web parasite.
by Don Bobbitt, 2014
Copyright Don Bobbitt, 2014, All Rights reserved.
I Was Just Thinking! How big must your Cajones be?
That’s right Exactly How Big must your cajones be for you to run for political office?
I’m just wondering, you understand. I am not interested in the job myself. But these people have gotten themselves voted into such plush jobs that for them to use their perks must take a pretty large set. Continue reading
Thanks for all the Fish!
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| A Sunset on the planet called Earth before it was destroyed. |
I don’t know if you are my age or not, but back in the Sixties, there was a great, camp, book that everyone, who considered themselves Cool, had to read. It was originally a radio show, but quickly turned into a book called “The HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy”.
Even though it was a purely comedic work, I, along with so many others my age, read it, related to so much from it, and had many discussions on it’s “hidden” meanings, how it applied to our world then, and even more. It was a Camp hit of that time.
And, if you haven’t read it, it is still entertaining, even today.
Because I had read it so many times, and it was so entrenched into my mind, throughout my adult life, I would, occasionally, throw out one of the many ambiguous quotes from the book, in meetings, and such, just to see how many people caught what I had said.
Often, my comments would be met with laughs or at least a smile, and a few times, even a few responding comments, that only a fellow 60’s “Hippie” type person would understand.
Of course, over time, as we aged, and our working peers became younger, the responses and finally even the smiles disappeared, all to be replaced with questioning looks.
But, I really didn’t care, and with my particular and often peculiar personality (or so I have been told), I continued, at the appropriate moment, of course, to sling one of my generational lines into conversations, Just for the Hell of it usually.
Anyway, one of my favorites was. “Good Bye and thanks for the Fish!”
I won’t go into a lot of details about it here.
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| Leave MY Fish Alone! |
Suffice it to say that it was a critical line from one of the most important characters in the book, and from the story itself, it was an important statement to all of the people of Earth.
If you don’t understand, but I have piqued your interest, then read the book.
If you were able to pull the statement from the cobwebs of your mind, and are sitting there, smiling, then maybe there is hope for us Retirees, yet.
Hope that we can wake up and see the changes being wrought in our world, and try to stop or at least change it for the better and for us as Baby Boomers, before it is too late.
You, and I, need to recognize the two-faced guys for who they are and we need to burst from our lethargic positions, remove their crowns and reject the insanity that we have allowed them to spout.
And, if nothing else, we need to see that our own, personal, “Boomer” insanity is made a higher priority in the order of the cosmos that we presently live in.
We can find the great computer “Deep Thought” quite easily. I mean, it’s just sitting there, in plain sight, so that is no longer the problem.
With access and a little control over Deep Thought, we, the Seniors of the world, can band together and present a unified front to the wicked Mouse distorted chaos that reigns as truth, in government, and especially, in DC, today.
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| I have found MY Towel! |
As long as we make sure that we have our towels with us, we can march together, even if only via email and phone calls, and scare the President of the Galaxy into a new consideration of the real “Question”.
That is, once we have explained to him and his fellow Mice in Washington that even though the answer is 42, he needs to understand the real question, and not some nonsensical financial suppositions that are touted by mere power hungry Congressmen.
So, Retirees, Seniors, Baby Boomers, old Hippies, and all of the concerned people of the world, lets unite, and pose the real and honest great question to the Cosmos.
We need to ask them; “Why are you eating All of Our Fish?”.
IF we can get them to leave out Fish alone, then maybe we can find a way to grow our Fish, and have not only, enough for ourselves, but maybe, if we use our towels of truth effectively, we can even generate more to share with others like the X-Gens, and Y-Gens, etc.
But, we do need to move now, and tell them; “You can Keep Your Thanks, and we will Keep our Fish!”
Along with; “And, if you don’t listen to us, we will have your own, personal little secret planet of corruption and self-involvement ……….. destroyed!” We know who to call, and the price is relatively cheap, considering all else in the Cosmos!
As an aged, silver haired Boomer, who has found his towel in my old attic chest that I call memories, I am now awake to these happenings, and you need to join me as I say;
“I want my Fish left alone!?”
Don Bobbitt
Tea Party members of Congress and Repubs taking oaths?
Tea Party members of Congress and Repubs taking oaths?
Click the link above to rad my article on this ridiculous state of affairs when OUR Elected Officials in Congress decide to forego our reasons for electing them and decide to form into their own Gestapo!
Don Bobbitt
Basic Economics – SS & Medicare changes
US! The Boomers! Do as we Say!
Are You ready for an iPad?
Your email and controlling access to you.
OK, You probably already have at least one email address, and you know how to use the web, at least to some degree.
I mean, you are reading this, so you knew enough to get to it, Right?
But, do you get Junk Mail? From people and sites that you have no idea how they got your email address?
Well, there are so many ways for people and companies to get your access to your email address, that even if you are being very careful, eventually you end up having to sort through what I call the Pigeon Poop of the web.
There is one relatively simple way to manage your email, that I have been using for several years, and, so far, it is working well for me.
Here is a simplistic overview of my email management system, and why I made these decisions.
Select an Email Service Provider
Most of us have a free email service provided by our local web service provider. It’s free, it’s there, so most of us end up using it. In my mind, there is a problem with this.
You see, every time you relocate, or even just want to change service providers, you find that you end up having to go to dozens of banks, credit card companies, and other business’ and either online, or by mail and change the email address that they use to communicate, or even bill you.
And, often, the email service that they provide is not a very, shall I say, flexible, email system. In fact, some are just plain archaic, and hard to use. For some reason, providing a good flexible email system for the average person is just not on the priority list of mist providers.
They seem to think that their job is to provide access and speed, and such supporting services as email, news access, search engines, etc. are just not near the top of their list of priorities.
I can’t tell you how many times in the past, that I have visited a friend, who might not be very technical, and they will ask me to “Fix” a problem they are having with their email. And, when I look, what I normally see is a hodge-podge system of software that is obviously cheap and shall I say “Clunky”.
And, the most common problem smy friends have is a combination of; 1-the available instructions and support is below even what I would consider the “Basic” level, and 2- often the package itself has “bugs” that end up adding to the non-technical users confusion.
So experience has driven me to go to a major player for my email service.
What you should do is talk to your more computer involved friends about what service they use. There are plenty of free services out there, so finding a good one should not be a problem. I myself, after a little research went over to Google’s gmail.
The service is free, and they have a very flexible and powerful email service that also provides several mega-bytes of free storage.
How Many email address’ do you need?
Yes, that’s right! How many do you need? Let me explain.
I got tired of my email address being sold to other companies and ending up with a mailbox full of Junk Mail, that was eating up my time (and storage memory) deleting and otherwise managing them.
So, I now have 3 email address’.
Email #1 is the one that I use strictly for business, and financial communications, such as banks, utility companies, financial institutions, etc.
Email #2 is the one that I use strictly for communications with friends and casual associates.
Email #3 is the one that I use strictly for shopping on the web, searching for information on sites that I am not confident of their security, etc.
And, of course, my spouse has two email address’ of her own, one for friends, and one for shopping.
That is 5 email address’ that we have for our protection.
The business email address has remained safe, and I have not had to change address’ with my companies for years.
The friends email address, gets very little Junk, and what I do get is easily managed. The biggest problem with friends and acquaintances is the danger from their attachments. So be sure you have your security set up to scan incoming mail for such potential problems.
And the third email? Well, that is the one that gets deleted and re-set up whenever I start getting a lot of Junk or even the occasional virus, etc.
But, at least I have it contained to a separate address that, when it is corrupted, I can fix much easier than if I had all of my mail tied to only one address.
It works for me.
Other Notes;
Your Web Service Providers email address.
Most Web Service providers will give you an email address, on their system that they want to use to communicate with you. Usually things such as System problems, projected down times, update schedules, etc.
What I did is set this address up to automatic forward all of these mails directly to one of my email address’ that I had selected as discussed above.
This way I don’t have to go over to their site and check for notices all of the time, because I get their notices forwarded automatically.
Mail Folders:
Use the Mail folders that any good email service provides. These will really help you keep control of your email history. I generated folders with titles such as; Financial, eBay, Target, Insurance, Health Info, PC Info, Friends Mail, etc. Of course, you can generate whatever fits your personal lifestyle.
I read my emails, and if I think there is any information that I might want to reference, or just re-read in the future, I move it over to the relevant folder, and it is automatically saved.
The remaining emails? I delete them, they are some of that Pigeon Poop that I mentioned earlier, and you really must get into the habit of cleaning them up.
Think about it. If it wasn’t important enough to be in one of your folders, then it is probably not worth keeping at all. GET RID OF IT! I have a friend that deletes nothing, and his email main folder, is enormous, and he takes forever to find old information
I have one more suggestion on folders. Once a year, either delete the old ones, or, write the older ones to a CD, in case you need to look the information up in the future. CD’s are cheap, but if you don’t manage your old emails, you will end up hitting the limit of that free storage that the provider gives you.
You will get an email offering you expanded storage capacity ….. for a price of course. And you will be given a time limit to comply with the old limit or BUY the new capacity. I hope you have the time to do this after the fact when the notice comes in, because it will come, eventually.
In SUMMARY:
I hope that this information has been helpful to you. In today’s world, you need a powerful and flexible email system. One that does what you want, the way you what, when you want it, not just what they want you to do for you.
So …… Shop, Research, find the right package and maximize your communications with the world.
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MEANDERINGS of DON BOBBITT 