Blogger and Cell phones

Blogger sent me a message that I was in error or the blog was not working well... and they wanted me to change it in order to be device friendly.

Blogger has been nagging me for a while. Apparently my content of the written word was too wide for mobile devices and people would have to turn their phones sideways to read it better. So I kept getting nice casual messages like: Mobile Usability issues detected. A small list was included saying the text was too small.

My text is 'too' small of a size. Hmmm? People would have to pinch and expand their screens.

OHHHH Horrors what a terrible hellish thing is this?

So this is Medium Text and I could change the text in the advanced setting to larger than 15px. I just am not sure about it.

This is normal text. I can read it on my phone but it does appear a bit small. But not so small that I need a magnifying glass or to pinch and expand and twist my smartphone around. 

I suppose less and less people are using laptops or desktops to do their internet reading. 

Next up? Yeah. My smartphone is something I have not mastered yet.

Well I can use the google maps and MapMyWalk and other nifty things, but my first smartphone was set up by my Grand daughter Lily and this one ... well, I'm pretty much hopeless as far as certain things go.

When I told my son I didn't have much memory in my phone he sort of snorted a laugh and asked me what my Phone Storage was. Um. Storage. Not much. 

What kind of cheap ass phone do you have? He asked [or some such words]. Well, I have a cheap assed phone that only cost me 50 bucks but I never added an SD card for more 'memory' ... storage, or whatever because ... truth be told....

I have no idea what I am doing.

Period.

But at the same time I'm not out a lot of money if I totally screw things up and wreck the phone, right?

Yep, I am behind the times.
I can recall the days when my Grandpa used to pick up his phone and listen in on the party line at his home. Phones with a dial. 

The newness of push button phones. 

The awesome new phones that had NO cord! 

And my wonderful smartphone that 50% of the time has no service inside my home. No service at all in the valley. It even goes Ding to warn me: NO SERVICE! 

The whole reason for the discussion on cell phones and storage was my upcoming mini trip and traffic/construction reroutes. My son asked me to use an app on my phone to assist me in getting around the construction and I replied ...

there is no room on my phone for that.....

How about those glory days of driving without GPS, air conditioning, electric windows, smart phones, and using something called paper maps?

Yeah, those days are gone.

I still carry a paper map in my car. 

But I did update my blogger view supposedly to make things easier for others to read. 

Not that anyone really wants to.

When I take my mini trip I think I'm just going to leave from home early and wander some of the back roads with Pandora blaring music out from my speakers. Of course THAT is really what makes that smartphone priceless!

One very cool feature I do have on my Subaru is a button I can push that says SOS. It also alerts Starlink if I've been in a crash. So there is that. No laying in a ditch out of sight for hours. A Blue Button for help and a Red Button for emergencies. Something that is comforting while transporting a person with health issues.

Have a Monday.

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I had the most interesting bunch of emails this morning that really confused me.

Pointing down....

Then a bit later a second email stating that the post was reinstated after review. 
Very odd.  Nor could I find the reinstated blogs UNTIL I went back to old post and found that they had been returned to Draft Status.

Now they are back but I am still searching for one.

Odd isn't it?

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And then.....

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been reinstated. You may access the post at 
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Whoa is me...

Well not really. I changed my blog settings to allow comments from Google+. Suddenly there were either a lot of comments or not a single one.

Lori from The Skoog Farm Journal emailed me telling me she hadn't been able to comment for a long time. So I changed back to the old method and this morning poof! All old comments disappeared and are gone.
I guess that is okay. I will just keep moving forward and not look back. I set this blog up in 2005 I think and the only way to fix it may be to either go with the G+ or completely redesign this?

I guess I am not going to lose any sleep over it. I'll leave it as is and that will be that.

Yesterday was a bleh day. I waited for my husband to decide what 'he' wanted to do. During his counseling with his Psychologist, he mentioned that I was a 'nag' and he wanted me to stop.
So yesterday I did.

His goal he set with Lindsey was to go to the river and check things out for fishing with me giving him a ride. I was ready in the morning. He wouldn't commit. He took a nap and I waited.

Because I did NOT nag. He missed his mid day meds. He forgets. He finally wandered around the house at 1pm and looked out the door.

"Is it cold out?" he asked. 
I shrugged. "Go out and look for yourself."

His Negative Nancy Personality has returned...or the Excuse Guy has returned. His doctor is telling him not to make excuses and to do these little goals that he sets himself up for and agrees to do.

"It could be cold."
I shrug and check the time.

We finally get in the car and drive to a fishing spot.
He sits.
I finally open his door and tell him to get out.

He walks down to the water.
"It has weeds in it." 
I shrug. "It has fish in it."

"I don't know."
I sigh. "Well, next week I am going fishing. You can tag along if you wish." I leave it at that.

When we get home he decides that it is nap time. 

I keep trying to tell myself that the 'cure' was for his depression and that the Vascular issues that lean towards dementia along with the stroke are still there.
He was a procrastinator before the stroke, he is worse now.

But because I am a 'Nag' and it makes him angry. I have to back off. How will anyone see that unless he is pushed a bit, he won't achieve his goals of walking, fishing, and trying to move around to improve his health?

He knows he wants to do it, but he told Lindsey some days he just can't. 

She told him not to make excuses. 
She also told him that he may have to accept some 'nagging' from me. It was okay to ask him once IF he was going to walk, take meds, or do something on his list. But after the once. I was to leave it alone.

I think he is still a bit upset that I am joining a Camera Club. I went to a meeting Tuesday night and was gone for a few hours. I told him that I couldn't sit in the house 24 hrs a day. Meeting with people that like photography and getting involved in fun things is a way for me to have social experiences and a bit of respite from the daily grind of being a Nagging Caregiver.


I took Charlie for a walk then while he slept. When I returned he was planted in front of the computer and screen watching Netflix.

He cannot seem to see or hear me while glued to the screen. 

Well. He is in a better place. He isn't so depressed now and he even seems quite pleasant most of the time.
But my old friend is gone.

I just find the good moments in each day to enjoy. And I take advice from Charlie.