Killing time seems to be what each day has been about lately. The Adaptive PE class starts again on the 22nd. I will miss not having to watch the clock or tossing and turning in bed worried that I need to get some rest. Not having somewhere I am suppose to be means I can just read and eventually I will get some sleep. Having to get up and ready and head out for class kind of takes that freedom away. On the other side having somewhere to go provides a routine – some normalcy and socialization.
I have made some progress figuring out my smart phone. All the little apps, how it hooks up to the internet, etc. just amazes me. Turning on the television and having it communicate with my computer and in turn the home phone . … this stuff should be easy but things that I think should be can turn my mind to mush nowadays. There is so much technology out there that has the potential to help but it seems the folks that “get it” do not get that while my mind takes longer to connect it does not mean I am stupid. I know what needs to be done, I might even know how to do it, I just can not quite get there sometimes
The new G+ social network is pulling me in. What I like about it is first off and foremost is that it is NOT Facebook! I do not have spend time blocking stupid game announcements (those of you who love the games please do not take offense) I do not give a rats arse that you scored and if I wanted to play I would be playing. While I appreciate that someone I have never met or conversed with considers me worthy of a beating heart I do not want to allow access to my info and send back a heart so it beats faster. I grew tired of the spam generated every time I logged in.
I like that I can carry on a conversation without the 140 character limit that twitter has. I liked twitter until it was inundated with businesses mining for potential clients. I finally set my account to private so I did not have to block all the folks wanting to follow to gain info on me and in turn spam me.
Right now G+ requires you use your real name and a gmail account when you sign up. So using a nickname is out. Some major players have had their accounts deleted because they signed up using their nicknames. Right or wrong the banter seems to be more civil. It took me a bit to figure out how to message to one person, how to control who sees what, but control I have! I see G+ as having a great potential for group sharing and perhaps not as much one for individual sharing. Firing up the web cam in a hangout and joining in can be fun.
I hope the G+ people keep out the business accounts and the political organizations too. Less noise. I have seen a few of you there and maybe more of you will give it a go. If you are just creating the account to promote your site/blog and do not participate in the conversations you will find your icon dragged out of my active circles and into a holding one. If you are using G+ and I have not found you let me know. Need an invite? Same deal let me know I have a few left. I really think the potential here to create a game, heart, site promoting, wall free community can happen here. Then again it is in beta stage so who knows they might just go and change it all up to appease the big business.
I have been plugging along slowly trying to get some cable management happening here before I trip on or hook one and all the stuff goes flying. It is taking some time numb hands and all. I tell you I should have recorded some of this as I would have some great fall boom shots along with many WTF looks on my face.
Till the next time.
The days have been long, and filling them has become an issue with me. I am hoping for an early autumn so I can get out and about with the living again.
I am a ditz when it comes to technology now. I used to get it, but it’s become too advanced and complicated. I was never really into FB, I think I am the only person I know with a FB account that has less than 30 friends on it, because they are all really my friends! I’d give G+ a try, but I have to sign up for a gmail address, dunnno if I really need ANOTHER email address.
Would have loved to have seen your WTF looks on your face…hee hee. I have become immune to surprise when I fall anymore, I do it so often :O
Cheers
Karen if you do wish the invite let me know how to get the link to you. I will try send one to you now if you do not get it ummm? one extra email LOL I have so many it can be overwhelming. I use the chrome browser for all the google stuff it integrates well and I just check the gmail from the browser tab.
I so can not wait for it to be fall/autumn! The heat does stifle activities and participation in daily life out in the “real world”. I do not even know how many facebook friends I have under kmilyun? I hardly ever check in there as it well drives me nuts! The other one under my “real” name is just folks I actually know – and yeah not too many LOL.
My best WTF moment – wish I had not deleted the video of it – was when my green screen sheet came undone and fell atop me. I was trapped and could not get out! I kind of freaked 🙂
My days now consist of physical therapy and doctor visits and blogging. I remember when I first stopped working the transition was brutal. My idenity was wrapped up in my career. Now, my shank says I need to get an idenity outside of MS! WTF!
Nicole
I wonder what exactly that means – outside of MS? If it means that everything is not about having MS I sort of do that. It is all in perspective I guess. I do not think Oh I am doing this because I can not do that – damn MS. I just try and enjoy what I am doing at the time.
Then again I adapt and in adaptation there underlies the reason why I am adapting.
Oh, I so get the sleep dilemma — the pressure of needing to sleep when you have to get up at a certain time. Last night I couldn’t get to sleep, so I got up and was quietly cleaning the kitchen — sorting spices and such. Around 2, I was finally able to sleep and woke up late. It’s nice not to stress about the timing.
Yet I do get that it’s healthy to shake out of the little home/cyber world and to rub elbows with non-pixelated folk when one can. I hope the PE class is good and that some of the folks that you liked from before are in there again. As sore as I am from an excursion downtown Seattle yesterday (some uphill and downhill blocks from bus to doc), me thinks I need to get a good PT program to follow.
About G+, I’ve enjoyed the hang outs. Still don’t really understand the +1 bit and I have just a few folks I know on there. So, a ways to go. But thumbs up on the hang out feature — am going to get a microphone to save my diaphragm!
Glad you’re figuring out the phone. I last night found myself on the Apple site looking at Mac notebooks. Not sure if I want to take that learning curve on!
I hope you are all rested up from the big excursion! Amazing how everyday dealings can wipe me out so the up and down would have me snoozing.
Most of the people do return each semester to the class so I am looking forward to catching up between exercises. I believe that I get more out of having to get my arse out of bed and show up than I do from the actual exercises sometimes.
I am slowly catching on to some of the G+ stuff. I use the +1 on some of the peoples posts that I follow but am to chicken to comment on – like a thumbs up. Trouble is if I +1 then it shows up in public circles even if originally in a private one. Ummm this is good mental exercise!
Oh I wish I could afford a Mac!
I signed up for G+ but haven’t really figured out what to do with it. Haven’t really put anything out there, nor have I commented on other folks’ stuff. FB is kinda easy because so much is gathered there in one location, ie. my real-life friends, colleagues from the past and present, bloggers, and other online MS people. But I should give G+ a try.
G+ does provide a place where you can communicate without all the noise :). I never have gotten the facebook thing. I do have an account that is just for real life people that I know. Mostly I keep it for info on high-school stuff. I am thinking of deleting the kmilyun one as I never use it anyways and the face recognition programs that facebook (and here I though google was the biggest data miner) is using is starting to connect the two accounts and that is not where I wish to go .
Well now I am back to the sit back and wait mode because of google+ announcement that they are adding games. It is set up nicer than other sites – the game junk will be separate from the main stream but . … first so and so took this quiz or found this out about you – heart me this or farmville me that I am outta there to.