RE: #Inktober 2018 Week 1 by enternamehere
No excusing necessary. It's just so nice to hear from you once again. So many of my friends on Steemit have left. Which I understand is normal in the sphere of the things of life, but it still stings when someone disappears into the ether. Then again, I've been gone for awhile now too. So who can talk. But there are only a few die-hards from the start that are still around, like @old-guy-photos, @blacklux, @generikat and a few others. Where DO they get the EverReady energies from?
I find it necessary to take a break now and then, as it takes a LOT of time and energy writing and curating and commenting and voting and the like. Need a break now and then, and life certainly can get in the way too. I had major knee surgery this last fall, so sitting around on my chair like a large, immobile can of beets was not an option. I do miss it...and yet and how I'd like to have a piece of cake for every time I watched the sun rise after staying up all night at the keyboard, clacking away like a mad barnyard boid, finishing up a cooking post or some other such, before it is due. Ah, the joy, of the creative process. Yes, I do miss it. So much to say, so little time to sit down at the odd keyboard and write it.
Speaking of birds, thanks for the use of Mr. Chickenscratch. I will see if I can copy it. If not, we can figure something out. It will add a bit of pizaaz and paazzing to my site. Such a grand fellow he is. (I tried to copy it, need to check and see if I can make it smaller, etc. May need to find the original, then again, if you are like me, good luck on that one...( :
Well, I hope to see you back doing your artsy thing on Steemit soon. The site has changed a bit, but is still the place to be, for one like me. Yowza, I'm a poet, and don't even knowit. My feet are size 12, they must be Longfellows" I've been wanting to use that since I heard it when I was about 6 years old. See, Steemit delivers!
Well, cheerios, my friend, I hope this finds you happy and healthy, and being your creative, funny self, and hope to see you about on the site soon. Take care and keep smiling at the world as it goes on by.
I have FOUND him! Here, hopefully this is usable for you. Let me know if it's not suitable and I'll see what I can do to alter it for your use:
Did Rodney Dangerfield use that one? It got a lol out of me, regardless of who it was. Nicely done there. Major knee surgery, that sounds terrible from this side of the fence. I mean, obviously you are okay, but it seems harrowing! But considering your past life profession you're probably accustomed to what most people would consider agonizing. Wow, those names take me back. It's so awesome (and maybe surreal at times) to think of all the social connections we as a community have made here over the years. I can only imagine what it was like at the different steem fests and meet ups from the earlier days. Anyway, that energy you mentioned, it's something else isn't it? To be a "proper" blogger takes a lot of it (for those of us who don't take the shortcuts or use life hacks). I'll be around, participating on the steem blockchain around my life-schedule. Of course I'm still watching the recent events unfold, along with practically everyone else. Interesting days we're in, huh? Good to hear from you, and that all's well-as can be. :) See you around!
Not sure where that came from originally, if there ever IS a true "originally"....
Thanks for Mr. Chickenscratch. I'll see how he works in copy and messing about with. SOME day I will get to my post on beavers, and still may want you to draw a skull for me. More on that when I get to it, ifnwhen I ever do. Ah, the well-laid plans of mice, chickens and we humans.
My knee is a bit of an ordeal, but getting SLOWLY better. Takes a year or so, supposedly. Maybe it IS good I beat the stuffins out of my body over the years in the woods. Now normal life seems a bit easier....
At least now I'm back on here a bit more, and fully enjoying it. Though as you say, many new things to figure out. Communities and such. I am such a clueless compu-putz. Cheers, and see you around the Steemit fountain
Beavers? Okay, sounds like the ddschteinn I remember. Yes, I'll take on any requests you can come up with in the visual arts domain. Wooww! A whole year of recovery, that's intense. Hope you continue to heal and improve. Hey, don't feel too bad, I went to actual college to get a piece of paper that proves I know about computers, and I'm there in the same boat as you. Yes indeed, you will see me around the good old ("old" means "new") Steemit fountain!
Why write about anything normal? That's my motto, I fear. But that one should be a fun one, even if I do say so myself, when I get to it. I've been gathering photos for it, slowly. Hard to just go out and find trees that beavers have cut down, when you want to. Get busy with it, bucktoothed treeeaters. I will let you know when I get closer. Plus the Schteinn School of the Sophisticated Sciences has to have someone to work on the final treatise.
I had a whole new knee joint put in, so it's pretty major. Too much basketball and working in the woods. Took a serious toll. It was a hard decision, but got it done, since I had good insurance for awhile, and got tired of it not working well anymore. Though I'm a bit younger than many, to have it done. Stressful decision, but you gotta do what you gotta do. Cheerio(s)
PS. And I'm sure you mind and therefor fingers could run circles around my paltry computer skills. Just enough to get by, I always says. Though I do consider these things more of a tool to get something done, than a thing I want to mess with trying to figure out. Drives me batty when they don't work according to plan. Like an 18v olt Dewalt compact driver. Just get the screw in the wood, Mac, just get it where it belongs...
(Yowza, I sure am chatty today. Must be Saturday)
Normies, pshh. Can't live with 'em... you know the rest :)
Not many beavers here around this parts, well not so far as I am aware. I know there is or was (?) a population because I have seen exactly one tree that had been distinctively beaver-toppled. The strange part is the tree was next to a very small pond with no other continual water access nearby. East Texas is significantly wetter, generally than North Texas and I bet there are plenty of 'them varmints' over yonder. Anyhow, I'm still up for helping however I may via art contribution.
Hands have got to win an all time best tool award for versatility and utility. DeWalt's impact driver is another one of those -->handy<-- tools. I use one at work quite frequently. It works very, very well for getting screws out of equipment, along with other time-saving tasks. Your comment found my bias! Yes, Cheerios and toodle-oohs. Pips.
I know the feeling! I took almost 2 month break from posting and still not feeling like posting everyday. I still try to come everyday to curate but not always say hi... feeling lazy, maybe anti-social ahahah but is always good to see some of my friends still here cause like you said many of them have left. Always good to read ya DD!