Virginia Breeze

Recently I had a little tutoring session with Vladimir Prelovac over in Europe somewhere. Maybe Serbia. I’m not sure but it was just like he was sitting next to me right here at the old computer desk. Because the first thing he did was introduce me to this Skype phone that you hook up to your computer. I went out and found one of these devices in a pile of stuff they were practically giving away for forty dollars. Then  I uploaded the software and somehow connected with Vladimir.

So we went over a bunch of stuff together as he patiently helped me connect some of the dots that were missing in my knowledge of blog construction. Installing Similar Posts was one of things giving me a lot of trouble and as you can see it is now installed and working well.

As you click on each post there are now five In Series posts above the content of the post. And there are five Similar Posts listed below the content.

It should be possible to now get totally absorbed in this blog or the other two for that matter going from one post to another back and forth through the entire length of the blog. If that is what anyone wants to do. My opinion is that it is a worthwhile adventure. But who could be more biased than the author?

Possibly his mother? Well in this case she is in heaven. And “Happy Mother’s Day!” Mom wherever you are. Thanks for helping me out now and then. Enjoy your day and eternity too.

Don’t forget to read my Mother’s Day poem in the sidebar. And I have also listed our Travels Outside Virginia in the Start Here section below the header long after it should have been done.

In case you are interested here is Vladimir’s website. He seems like a pretty cool guy and he knows a lot of stuff. And he is available for consulting about your blog.

Welcome to the world of Skype and instant communication around the world.

http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/

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I have noticed lately that a few blogs I enjoy have fallen by the wayside. And it’s not clear why this has happened. But other bloggers have written about it so it seems that it does happen. And there are abandoned blogs floating around like small rafts out in the middle of the ocean.

A scene from Titanic comes to mind. “Move over girl! There’s room on that thing for both of us!”

Whenever I feel like I HAVE to do something while blogging and I don’t want to do it there is this rule written up here in red ink that I follow. I don’t do it. If it’s a chore it doesn’t get done.

Something else WILL get done however. It’s never “blogging is a chore so I will go do something else”. And we want to avoid getting to that point. It’s more like we can do THIS or we can do THAT. But we want to do THAT.

So THIS doesn’t get done. Probably we would be more successful if we enjoyed doing THIS and did THIS all the time. Oh well.

If someone asked me whether I would like to be a happy blogger or a successful blogger my response would be . . . Can’t I be both?

NO!  Choose.  Alright.  I have to go with happy.  Because a successful but unhappy blogger is not something I would be for very long.

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I have more photos from this event on my Flickr photostream and over at Photolinklove.com as well.

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Longtime readers know that your faithful reporter resides in Richmond, Virginia and nearby our home the James River snakes its way through the city. We can practically see it from here and we can definitely hear the trains that run up and down its banks.

The University of Richmond is also nearby and we take walks over there. There are lots of photos from it in this blog. And this past week there was a strange person over there in a costume who shut the place down for several hours.

I was sitting here typing away when Beth came up with the news. “Guess what!”.

It’s hard to tell what is about to invade my consciousness when I hear that phrase. But I could hear the helicopters up there and so I had a feeling it was going to be pretty good.

“There’s a guy with a gun running around U of R”.

This is not what we want to hear here in Virginia. We have had more than our share of this sort of tragedy.

Fortunately in this case it was not a lethal situation. A 19 year old dishwasher is out on $10,000 bond after confessing to the crime.

Here is what reportedly happened. A library employee “told police that (a male in a fake beard and sheriff’s jacket) stated to her that he was a police officer and that he had heard that people were fornicating in the library and that he needed to spend the night.”

Police locked down the university after confirming that witnesses had seen the intruder with a gun which later proved to be a pellet gun.

This is so ridiculous.  Can you imagine?

I wonder if there really is stuff happening in the library? Do you think they will let me take some photos in there?

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