Domestic Geek

I really, really hate the Internet. I'm positive that any good we got from it is far outweighed by the garbage, negative things that resulted.

One of the worst is these garbage sites that are probably run by bot farms. They are all precanned content with affiliate links or some such shit in them. These days, they're probably AI generated, to boot. I've been going through my archives trying to delete the paid posts I made in my unemployed days. I found out my original domain I had has become one of these horrible sites in 2020. If this whole C word we can't name scam that happened in 2019 hadn't happened and almost made us lose our business, I would've kept it. A lot of the blogs I used to follow have fallen to the same fate. It makes me sick.

The sad thing is, people fall for this crap. I recently dealt with a computer of a guy who had recently passed. His hard drive was full of these things that he'd purchased, trying to make passive income. For what, those same articles were on at least 100 other sites, exactly the same.

Anyway, I'm slowly trying to get this thing up and running again. I'm sad about how I gave in to the whole Facebook, social media psyop. I basically wasted over 16 years of my life being addicted to that garbage.

Just popping in to blow off the dust and start to reacquaint myself with this.

I really miss blogging.

I have been so busy these last 2-1/2 years with our business that I've lost touch with what makes me happy. I haven't had a garden in years, my houseplants have died, I only cook on special occasions, can't remember the last time I actually baked anything, my house still isn't unpacked and I really can't remember the last time I actually finished a craft project.

I've also been eating crap food with no exercise, so my weight is going up again.

We've moved to a beautiful place, but I haven't been enjoying it.

So, I'm hoping in the new year that if I get back into the routine of writing, I'll get back into the routine of doing what I enjoy.

Now, how in the hell do I post this thing? LOL

So, the last couple of years have been really busy and this poor blog fell by the wayside. I didn't even realize until last week that my domain wasn't even reachable due to a DNS change I never made with my registrar. I'm not even in a Google search anymore.

Just a few of the things that happened that have kept me from all this:

• July 2016: Got a job working at paper in Custer, SD and quit working at the printer in Denver that I was at for almost 10 years


• August 2016: Moved to South Dakota by myself


• October 2016: Dad passed away


• July 2017: Quit job at paper to run print shop business in Custer that Marcus bought


• June 2018: Marcus moved to South Dakota

It's been over 2 years since I moved up here and I still haven't gotten unpacked. My house is a disaster. We still need to sell the condo in Denver. We really need to find a bigger space for our shop.

Anyway, it's been a crazy couple of years and this just didn't get on the radar. Since I really want to do NaBloPoMo in November, I had better make sure this is all working again soon.I also want to restart my 101 in 1001 days and do a Project 365.

ETA: OK, so looks like NaBlogPoMo is defunct? WTF? I guess I have been out of the game for a while. Oh, well...

I used to be really good at web coding and design. That almost 10 year stint I did at the print shop and not using the skills made me freaking rusty. I thought when I got my current job that I'd be able to start getting them back in shape as in the interview they seemed really pumped that I had web skills. Well, they had hired a web company before I got there and I have no access to the back end (something that I can't seem to make them understand). It's irritating when they'd ask me to try to do something on the web site and I'd have to explain again and again that they'd have to call the developer as I had no password to access the core of their site.

For reasons I can't go into on a public forum, I need to get my skill set back. My poor site here has been broken because I hadn't upgraded EE in so long that when Marcus upgraded his servers to the latest PHP, everything here was broken. I'm back up enough that I hope this will post...we'll see here in a bit. PHP has changed, Expression Engine has changed, even HTML changed (I have no experience whatsoever with HTML5). It's going to be a challenge, but I will relearn all this.

ETA: OK, my little mood guys are broken, but at least I can post. That's a start...

Man, can not get my act together with this daily blogging thing anymore. Totally slipped my mind last night...so, guess this is it for this year.

Since it snowed here in South Dakota today, I'm behind in my work (left late packing stuff up in case I got stranded, left work early and it took 1.5 hrs. to get home), so I've got some of that to do tonight. I've got a bunch of stuff to do for Marcus, I'm exhausted and haven't been feeling well the last few days. My house is a pit. I am just going to have to admit that I don't need this obligation on top of everything else right now.

I'll still try to keep up with the Project 365 thing. I really do want to finish one of those, for once. I'm not posting those tonight, though.

Better luck next year...