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.

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