December 28, 2024
It is the end of 2024 and I have been amiss about this blog, my Quick Blog, and my website. So many things have happened, and are happening that I forget I am running out of lifetime. I have been so busy learning and applying new things that I forgot how to use WordPress. In fact I forgot the name of the software.
But I am moving ahead now, and life, our life is changing. It has been a hard four years but with the election I think life is about to get a lot better. I know it is. However it will take time, several months before we see changes in our lives. But changes are coming.
I will do better with this blog, my Quick Blog, and the website. Yet change is difficult, sometimes very difficult. And scary. But change is necessary, and critical in order to live our best life. So a change is coming to this blog, and the website. Formatting changes to start, content changes to grow.
I am not sure how I am going to do these changes as I must relearn many things. It won’t take long but it does require a commitment to enable those changes.
I am not a fan of the block format WordPress now uses. I never learned how it really worked, so I must learn. I learn by resisting but I am finding the resistance tiring and non-productive. Not a very good place to be. But I put myself there, I dug that hole, so now I have to get myself out of it.
So what prompted this change of heart? You could say retirement. Everyone is retiring but me. And I’m old enough to retire, in fact I am past retirement age. I am still working full time, at a job I really like, yet I know no company will ever hire me because of my age. (I’m a few years over 70, several years over 70 in fact.) So my next, and last, occupation will be working completely for myself, during my retirement years. Which is still several years away. Still it is coming and I need to be ready for it.
I am not one to not work. I need to work. I don’t need hard labor, but I do need mind-stretching work. Filling my website and my blogs will help. I also write screenplays and turn them into eBooks. I need, and I am, concentrating on that line of labor. I do find it relaxing and mind stimulating. I shall see how it goes.
For now I want to get this post up and begin working on improvements to the layout. I am currently using the 2010 WordPress theme, which I really like. Yet it is outdated and like me, it needs change. A lot of change. The kind of change necessary to be productive. Something I feel I am currently not.
So with that, I am logging off here, and in the next few weeks will debut a new blog theme, but similar content. After all, holding politicians accountable was the reason I started this blog (and website). It still holds.
Ideas and reconsideration are critical if I want this thing to grow. So I am closing out 2024 with a commitment to grow in 2025. While my life is not bad, I do want to make it much better in the coming year.
G.
