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Well so much for taking care of those courses in one fell swoop. It's always the stage fright that gets me Allow me to get back on the horse again: I at least managed to shave two off of the five I had to do which added to the two I had already done in the previous semester isn't altogether a bad job report
Online banking isn't as straightforward as it seemed at first: one of the items needed for a relatively fluid operation of it is a cell phone.
That bit of technology was one I had judiciously avoided for the past decade, not only because of the habit people had of forgetting to turn off the call ring while in class was annoying, but also of the realization I had little interest in it what with my relatively reclusive nature and the normal phone at home. Now the situation's changed, I need the cell phone in my daily life and the home phone is no more.
To be truthful, though, I have to add that while my cell has as little technological bells and whistles as possible I had to get one with FM radio. That bell/whistle actually excited me more than just the "being in touch everywhere" feature.
This next month and a half I'll be incommunicado. See you in September.
Online banking isn't as straightforward as it seemed at first: one of the items needed for a relatively fluid operation of it is a cell phone.
That bit of technology was one I had judiciously avoided for the past decade, not only because of the habit people had of forgetting to turn off the call ring while in class was annoying, but also of the realization I had little interest in it what with my relatively reclusive nature and the normal phone at home. Now the situation's changed, I need the cell phone in my daily life and the home phone is no more.
To be truthful, though, I have to add that while my cell has as little technological bells and whistles as possible I had to get one with FM radio. That bell/whistle actually excited me more than just the "being in touch everywhere" feature.
This next month and a half I'll be incommunicado. See you in September.
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And that was that for chats
Some more context on my Facebook profile.
It's nice to have a private place where you can bounce ideas off similarly-minded people and generally be sociable but I've come to realize, as for other Web 2.0 modes of interaction in the past, that there's a risk of that becoming all you do. So after a year or so testing the likes of Facebook and Discord as chatting platforms I've decided Skype is the chosen one (for now at least) and it seems to me that the first chat group I've joined on there has an activity level I can keep up with.
So all invites to join chats elsewhere are preemptively declined (as are for other venues like forums and sundr
Say No To Art Contests
Let's see if I can summarize this ramble of mine on why I am turned away from most art contests into easily digestible points.
:bulletred: Always read the rules in detail. Overwhelmingly you'll find an item that says you relinquish your commercial rights pertaining to the submitted artwork or even all of them to the entity holding the contest just to participate.
:bulletred: All things being equal, a contest corresponds to a ballot where a "ticket" is something for which entrants likely worked hard for and yet only three of them at most get a one time payment, resulting, if that hasn't already happened, in the complete forfeiture of the win
A Speculative Palaeobiology Group
SpecPalaeo (https://www.deviantart.com/specpalaeo)
Hopefully one of the more productive community-oriented efforts stemming from #buildabetterfaketheropod. I hope those of you approached by the administrator can exercise forbearance regarding the pertinent recent bout of querulousness over Brian Engh's modest proposal, but that exercise, with time, has have given Lediblock2 (https://www.deviantart.com/lediblock2) a better appreciation for those that like their speculative fiction with a bit more inventiveness. That said, I'm sure the more conservative imaginings will also have their place there.
Meanwhile at the Paleoartists Group...
...an admin wonders about the point of it all.
So beyond all the issues pertaining to my livelihood that take precedence over most community efforts I can part-take in, there's this failure of communication I don't understand and consequently can't figure out a way to tastefully resolve and frankly leaves my charitability tattered and frayed far too quickly. So unable to be agreeable enough in this situation most of the time I move on to other things.
Let's see for how long I can avoid that tropism this time around.
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I live with my cell phone over my house phone for 4 years now... So don't feel bad... You just have to remember it is with you and its ringing volume needs "constantly" adjusting to avoid annoying others.
incommunicado? ok, then see you sooner or later.
incommunicado? ok, then see you sooner or later.