I simply couldn't take the torture that is Typepad one second longer. Please join me in my new digs. It's kind of bare over there currently but I'll fill it up again soon I'm sure. LOL!
I'm still playing around with different things so there will be changes until I'm comfortable with it again so please be patient with me.
If you have suggestions for anything you'd like to see, let me know. I like new stuff too.
This site will stay as is unless I figure out an alternative.
I have to be honest with yall when I say that another huge part of why I've been blogging less is that I'm truly sick of Typepad. I've been wanting to leave this platform for over two years now but my blog is so large that it locks up on every system trying to import it. Then...Typepad has the export process so crazy that the files aren't even in the form you need them to be in to do so without some serious man hours. Everyone I step to to ask to help laughs.
Typepad doesn't have any of the features that indicate it's 2014. There have only been a few improvements since I started using the service in 2006. I go to other sites and see cool stuff only to get angry that I pay for this service and don't get to do the same. Hell...free WordPress blogs have more bells and whistles than this old archiac Typead. I've only stuck in there with them because, again, it's a pain in the tookus to move. UGH!
I'd love some advice. I've started a new blog on Squarespace, which I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! What do yall think about my just starting over on that system and just leaving this here and link to it as an archive? Do you think it would be okay? I could stop blogging over here ASAP and just start blogging at the new place. Would yall go over there?
It's been a long day. I felt like blogging but couldn't. LOL! Fortunately Typepad is back up it seems.
I read someone speculate that they received a ransom note. That made me giggle. LOL!
Glad to be back up running. Almost died laughing at the reaction on Twitter from some bloggers though. PURE.HILARITY! Folks were MAD.ABOUT.IT!
HEY YALL!!!!!!!!!
If your kid already has a smart phone, would you consider downgrading it to a basic flip phone if you felt they were abusing the camera and video camera or making poor choices regarding?
If you were in the market for a phone for your child now...would you get them a smartphone right off the bat?
What type of phone do the underage children in your home use?
I got a new phone and setting it up is proving to take more time than I thought it would. I like things to be a certain way and it is not as easy as it should be.
I bought the Galaxy Note 3 because if I am not going to have a for real keyboard then it should be big as hell. I am using it now to type this and well...sigh. I had to delete all of the screen stuff that was initially on it so my OCD would calm the hell down. I keep hitting something wrong.
There is a microphone by the space bar. I keep hitting it so now I'm using the microphone to type and it seems to be working pretty well except there's no punctuation.
Well I just said. And it typed a. So I guess I'm boo boo the fool that was pretty cool I guess I have a free flow of anything to say or could say I have my coffee so that's kind of weird damn actually doing this without completely breaking down so yeah this actually might be kind of cool go me. I forgot to say. But now that I know to say. I can put a.
The funniest thing is that when you curse it doesn't type out the curse word. It puts the first letter and then stars. LOL! Like f****. HILARIOUS! It's forcing me to be polite.
GO ME!
I haven't purchased a case yet because the selections at Verizon and at Best Buy were meh. I want something really nice with a kickstand kinda thingy so I can prop it up sometimes. I also don't want something to make it even bulkier. Until I get a case, The Robinator says it must be in my purse when I'm not home and walking AT.ALL.TIMES. LOL! No pockets. No hands. I think dude thinks I'm clumsy or something.
Oh...and I have to buy new charging cables so that's frustrating. VERY.FRUSTRATING.
And I bought a new 32gb SD card.
There is a lot associated with buying a new phone ya know? Like...there is a lot of crap you have to buy. The last time you bought a new phone...what all did you have to buy for it?
Belkin Grip Power Battery Case for iPhone 5 (White)
A girlfriend is over currently and she has this on her phone. This might be a game changer for me. It is seriously the BEST.THING.EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You put it on your phone and you get an additional two full charges from it charging your phone once you engage it.
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What Instagram filter do you generally use the most? What are your feelings about Instagram? Do you like it? Love it? Who do you follow that you truly enjoy following and why?
Do you still have a VCR in your home somewhere? Do you have a DVR?
For the past year, once every couple of weeks or so, I have to listen to The Robinator cuss up a storm about how there is never anything on television and yet we pay a straight GRIP for all the channels of nothing.
Basically...it takes us about 30 minutes of channel surfing to even find something reasonably decent to watch and it's usually something on the Discovery Channel. Dude has really started to taking a liking to Survivor Man, Moonshiners and some show about being dropped off naked in the woods.
*BLINK*
I've decided to not look too much into that in the even it means I'm going to have to leave him soon because he's thinking about being one of those crazy out back woods people.
MOVING ON...
What kind of cellphone are you using? Do you have a case for it? I just read something where people prefer to not put a case on their iPhone because it's a sexy piece of art and they are okay with the possibility of it breaking.
That made me *BLINK* even though I do prefer the look of my phone without the case but I'm clumsy so that's not an option for me. LOL!
Do you have digital media rules at home for your kids? Like...times they can use their cellphones, tablets, computers, etc.?
What are they?
How did you develop them?
Did you develop them once you identified a problem or did you put them in place BEFORE giving the child the device?
Do you tell your kids that their cellphone belongs to you and that you let them use it as long as they follow the rules?
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Yall know Nintendo knows I'm a big kid at heart and sends me free stuff to try out right? Right. Well...last week the FedEx guy dropped off a new game for me to play and it's been sitting here neglected while I do some real life stuff to keep everyone off my back.
You know...responsibilities and whatnot. The joys of being an adult. UGH!
So...I called in an expert to help me and he got right down to it giving me an opportunity to continue working while he took it on a test drive for me.
When he finished playing, he allowed me to interview him so I could add his findings to a post about the game.
Did you enjoy playing the game?
Expert: YES!
What's it basically about?
Expert: It's about a policeman named Chase McCain who is solving a big crime. He has to catch a lot of criminals and take them to jail. He's involved in car crashes and he has to help people when they ask him to.
What kinds of things do you get to do?
Expert: Jump flagpoles, chase people, drive cars among a lot of other things.
What was your favorite part so far?
Expert: Chasing the people because I enjoy chasing people at school.
Are there any parts which you found particularly difficult?
Expert: Yes. Jumping the flagpoles is pretty difficult.
Would you recommend this game?
Expert: Yes. I'd recommend it to all my friends!
How do yall think he did? It was his first interview as an 8 year old but I seriously predict big things in his future as he has quite a way with words!
Yall know we're in the middle of some serious cold here on the East coast and I feel like pretty much everyone is sick of it. The sun can be out but it's freezing outside and really...I'll be honest when I say I totally get affected by the lack of outside time in the winter.
The kid is struggling.
When Nintendo contacted me and asked if they could come out and throw a game playing party with some of my friends, I said heckie yeah just to have some fun cuz again...I'm struggling.
So they sent out two awesome guys, Dewan and Devir, with healthy platters from Whole Foods, beer, wine and water (cuz that's all we drink at 13700 other than coffee and tea) and my friends rolled in and BAAAAAAAAAABY! You'd think we were in a park playing kickball with chicken on the grill the amount of fun we had.
There were prizes and crazy laughter and MAJOR competition. I ain't saying no names...but somebody was up in here turned up to SUPER SERIOUS when it came to the Luigi's Haunted Mansion on the Nintendo Land game.
Again...I ain't saying no names.
And somebody ELSE was up in here dancing like they were on line pledging all over again.
Again...I ain't saying no names.
The poor kids barely got a chance to play anything because, as we've shown time and time again, the adults I know...KNOW HOW TO GET DOWN AND HAVE A GOOD.DARN.TIME!
Now...there's this one game that I love and, of course, neither E nor The Robinator would ever play it with me cuz they're wussies. It's called SiNG Party. Now...when E and I first tried it out...I saw that the song, "The Climb" by Miley Cyrus was on it and I tortured him by singing the EN-TIRE-SONG super loud with swaying and my rendition of faux ballet dance moves.
He almost died. You know...cuz he's 14 and cool and I'm 43 and cool-ER.
SIP: That's your story huh?
N E WAY...
So I didn't know about the party mode of the game. See...when you're having a party...one person gets to sing karaoke style. The other people watch the television screen and does what it says to do on the screen. So there's dancing and background singing that I didn't know about. YES! YES! YES! And it's not like sway dancing...it's serious cardio dancing. Getting your EN.TIRE groove on! We were like...OH YEAH! LET'S GO 'HEAD AND GET THIS WORKOUT IN TOO!
Most of the kids declined to join us because they are evil and un-cool. LOL! It's not their fault...we're just of a cooler, funner generation. LOL!
So, you'll notice that our WiiU is in the family room where I'm usually posted up. That was intentional cuz I LURVE this gaming system! When you're child-free, as we are, you don't normally have games, etc. going on in your house but we figure...hey...why should parents get to have all the fun? LOL! So yup...we play it and have a BLAST!
I loved all of the information Dewan and Devir gave us about the system. The biggest hit was when they told us that if a kid or Monnie was playing a game and their parent or Robby walked into the room and watched to watch the news...all they had to do was switch it so the kid could continue playing on the game pad only and not the television. That has probably saved lives in households all over already. LOL!
Thanks to all of my friends who came out! The party was supposed to be from 2pm - 5pm. Of course the last of the guests didn't leave until 10pm. LOL! Why? Cuz that's how we get down-T. We had a good dang time.
Thanks to Nintendo, as always, for sending me a free gaming system and games. Thanks for the catered food and thanks for not weirding out when I was adamant about no sodas and only healthy food options in my home.
Thanks to my friends and framily who all came out and had a good time. Yall rocksie! Yall can come play anytime and, when you get your own, let's hook up online and play. Well...everybody 'cept TravelDiva. She be in full combat mode! LOL! Talking 'bout zombie apocalypse and whatnot and why we gotta run faster. My rested heart rate just sped up just THINKING about it! ROFL!
Do you have a WiiU? What games do you suggest we pick up? Do you play with your kids?
One of my Christmas gifts was the Lytro Light Field Camera
It's pretty cool in a novelty kind of way because it takes "living" pictures according to the camera description. See...you can change the focus of the picture by shifting all of the light in the picture to one spot. Interesting to say the least.
Check out some of my pictures: https://pictures.lytro.com/lyt-12115042850094/stories/93990
Click on one and then click on different parts of the picture. Then...you can zoom in or out and crop it for the perfect picture.
Cool huh?
Aiight...I have all of my pics off Instagram now and am about to upload them to Flickr who continues to have privacy sense.
I'm bailing on Instagram and I've already made my account private while I take the following steps to do so:
Step 1: Download all of my pictures via Instaport.
Step 2: Delete account.
Step 3: Delete app on my phone.
I'll be damned if my pictures end up as ads without my permission nor my being paid.
If you were going out of the country for two weeks and you found out that your cellphone wouldn't work in the other country...would you contact your provider to rent a phone which WOULD work or would you just go without a phone?
The Robinator also uses this app while training for his marathon: RunKeeper
I downloaded it too to see what it was all about. When I was setting it up, I noticed that it has different training programs built in to help you train for different runs or walks. I have a girlfriend who has a goal of doing a 5k in the near future so I sent it to her. The training program seems pretty reasonable and nothing that will kill you. LOL!
How many of you runners use RunKeeper? Do you like it?
The Robinator shared this app with me last night and it's pretty cool! Check it out! Instant Heart Rate
If you download it...share your resting rate with us! Mine was 64. Robby's was 51. I need to ramp up my cardio so I can beat him. LOL! Yes...it's all about competition at 13700!
So...I'm well on my way to receiving 43 gifts for my birthday. LOL! Yes...I've been keeping track. One of my adopted baby brothers bought me lunch for my birthday yesterday so I considered gift number 22.
I got the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display and I was all geeked, of course, to get it crack-a-lacking and set up. UNTIL I realized that I don't have any connector cables that would do this justice.
When I first tried to do it wirelessly, it said it would take 92 hours. That's 92 hours without BOTH of my MacBook Pros.
*BLINK*
So then I was like...well, I'll just go buy an Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter
Easier said than done as I have yet to find one. I know I could have ordered it online by now but I was hoping, wishing and praying that I could buy one at the Mac store or Best Buy or Radio Shack and not have to wait.
NOT!
Nobody has any.
And I'm pissed.
So my brand new fancy, smancy laptop is sitting on my desk all Colgate wink shiny doing NOTHING!
Leave it to Apple to make me have to buy some new ish before I can use my new ish properly.
*sigh*
Isn't this cheeky?
You've got to be kidding me!
My phone flat out blinked off and now I can't turn it on. The battery is built in so you can't "reset" it.
I type the words 'Droid 4' into Mr. Google and IMMEDIATELY 'Droid 4 won't turn on' is the first search option.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
Guess who is NOT amused to have to go to Verizon.
Have you had any problems with your phone recently?
So...have yall noticed how serious this beef between Google and Apple is? They are NOT playing.
SIP: I bet Google wouldn't accept Apple's friend request. ROFL!
Last weekend my cellphone took a swim in a toilet so I had to go get a new one. My old phone was a Motorola Droid 2 Global and I'm not the type to get a new phone just cuz a new one came out. I get a new phone when my old phone no longer works.
AND IT NO LONGER WORKED.
*sigh*
I trotted off to Verizon early Sunday morning and sized up the new phones. The only one with a keyboard AND on the 4G network was the Motorola Droid 4.
Hey...I'm old. I need a keyboard to feel like I'm typing.
MOVING ON! LOL!
So I decided to get it.
Then I asked if they were going to give me a deal on buying batteries because I owned 4 batteries for my Droid 2 and I always run out of battery power before the end of the workday.
And the bottom dropped out.
Um...Ms. Mingo...the battery is built in. It doesn't come out.
Crap. Imma be one of those people always hunting down an outlet. *sigh*
I'm extremely forgetful so that thought scared me so I decided to get me a juice pack and I'm super happy with it. GO ME! Mophie Powerstation
What kind of phone are you using? Does it run out of juice before bedtime? How do you keep it charged up? Do you have a car charger too? Do you have a charger in your office and at home? Do you keep a charger in your bag?
This is TOTALLY awesome!
I used this one: InstaBackup
And I'm going to order some of these cuz I think this is sooooooooooooooo awesome: StickyGram
Know how folks are always giving out free stuff at conferences? Well...I don't take anything that I'm not going to use because I can't stand all that random stuff cluttering up space.
I still end up getting a lot of really cool stuff however, but my absolute FAVORITE free thing I've ever received (other than thumb drives) is this: Micro-fiber Lens Cleaning Chamois With Neoprene Case and Clip FREE SHIPPING!
It is soooo handy and I use it to clean off my phone, iPad, laptop screen, camera lens, etc. Makes me happy!
Do you believe the quality of the DVD player has anything to do with the quality of the picture the TELEVISION produces?
Okay...seriously...I think I'm going to need one of these in my life now that I see it will come in red also. Jawbone Up band.
Here's a good article on it: http://gizmodo.com/5820983/jawbones-up-bracelet-will-track-your-body-as-it-sleeps-eats-or-sits-around-getting-fat
Which iPod are you?
Classic:
On set there are always a bunch of people running around looking for outlets to charge up their iPhones. Folks be leaving their phones unattended and whatnot trying to get more juice.
Me? Not a problem. I have three batteries for my DROID! and I have this nifty thingy that can be attached to my car charger as well as to a regular outlet as well.
This way the kid always has juice unless she's locked it along with the keys inside a running vehicle. *BLINK* SIP: She's SUCH an idjit man.
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