I wasn’t sure what to talk about this morning, so I sat down at the typowriter and thought for a while… Ah, yes! That.
Before setting fingertips to plastic, though, I went online to check a fact as best you can these days, and there, I became distracted. First, by arriving emails, and then by the fact my Thunderbird email program (sorry, ‘App’) doesn’t have autocorrect like Word does, so my entire reply was underlined in red. Never mind, there is always a solution, and I went to find an add-on for that, and found one, which I then couldn’t get to work, so I tried another way, and 15 minutes later, I’m still none the wiser.
So, I went to my photos folder, which is really Neil’s because it’s currently full of only his photos, and selected a few suitable for today’s blog. Then I remembered what I was going to write about, and went to make a cup of tea…
Back at the desk, I slipped gracefully in to ‘Before I start, I must change the email address associated with my websites’ mode, and went to both sites’ admin panels to sort out that little job that’s been waiting for three weeks and will take one minute to fix, and discovered that the WordPress confirmation email was not getting through to my Gmail account, and I needed to install this plugin or fiddle with that extension, so I used another email address to see if that would work (the home one supplied by Greece’s national phone system) and lo and behold, no.
By which time, I’d forgotten what I came in for, and the calming music on Spotify, which had been playing some of Ravel’s less enthusiastic experiments, was now playing ‘Your 100 Best Songs from Shows You’ve Never Heard of’ or something, so I had to deal with that. Took all of two seconds, and then I remembered I’d not lit any incense. (It’s not part of an ancient rite, sadly, but is a thing I’ve been getting into this winter, and one a day sets a pleasant background scent for the office.) So, I had to see to that… Before making another cup of tea.
And returning to the desk to start again on this blog… After I’ve checked book sales a Kindle Unlimited reads for the month so far… Eek! Much more work is needed in the publicity department if we are to eat in June, and I’m so glad I don’t buy petrol or have travel plans. Except, that is, for our health MOTs in a couple of weeks, which reminded me I had to sort something out there, which I did, before returning to my original search (the one for whatever it was I was looking for at the top of this page), and finding I had somehow opened my BookFunnel author dashboard and joined a free promotion for June. Ah, right. That needs noting and passing to the admin department because it’s a good promo to join, and there are only a few places left, so I must get that form done now.
Sorted, and back to this post, by way of the kitchen to collect a full bottle of water, and the bathroom to unplug the pump because I’d left it on and it was kicking in every ten minutes, and finally back to the desk.
Now, what, 50 minutes ago, was I going to write about?
I couldn’t remember, so I wrote this.
