The other day I made a statement about twitter in which I shared my feelings about a business account being kinda rude. I seriously doubt the person or persons involved with that account read that post, but there have been interesting developments in the last 24 hours. The CEO herself of that business (which I actually think is really cool) followed me, and her following/follower ratio looks MUCH more promising, so I'm going to give it another go and list them. I really don't like nitpicking the same thing over and over, so if that one account drops back off again, I'll probably just ignore that, even though I'm still struggling with the stupid twitter 10% ceiling. That apparently doesn't stop just because you get over 2000 followers. I'm not sure when I'll be able to refollow all the people I unfollowed just to incorporate newbies coming on, but I refuse to mass dump people who aren't following me through an app. Who in their right mind would dump @BradleyJames in the twitter trash??? Or @GroovyBruce?
Anyhoo, if you guys wanna know what the big deal was all about, here you go, live and be well, and if you find yourself thinking that would be a neat thing to check out, here, check it out. No one is paying me to link them.
On to my day. Here's a little TMI (too much information, in case you're the greenest noob on the interwebs), speaking confidentially to women who've been putting up with premenopausal symptoms since their frickin 30's, I just wanna let y'all know this hell never stops. I went over the line, was ~free and clear~ even on the blood tests a couple of years ago, *BOOM* last year full reversal, went through the whole ablation thing and even after that blood tests came back like I was in my 30's again. WTH???? "Oh, it can do that sometimes..."
This is why they 1- either spay women or keep them on hormone therapy, and 2- put women on head meds. Aside from some of the worst cramps EVER (bloody hell, they get worse), you also go batshit crazy. I feel like I need some of Granny's medicine.
Thank you, thunderstorm, that was an amazing performance this morning. Now can I please GET TO WORK??? Thank you.
Not that I didn't appreciate the deviance from routine, got menus planned out, roast out of the freezer for tomorrow, stuff lined up for an awesome soup today, and the rest of the pizza ingredients for to make one last pizza.
Yesterday afternoon was kinda fun, had a carotid doppler to rule out some other causes for black out/seizure, and the tech doing it said she's had two radio ablations (heart surgery to correct rhythm probs, I had mine in 2K) and she gets super dizzy lying on her right side, too. Neither one of us has any idea if that's normal, but interesting to know someone else does the same thing. She also incidentally noted that my thyroid is "not pretty", which I'll follow up later with endo. I'm not worried, my thyroid's been a mess for decades, runs in the family. I've had carotid doppler before, have had severe brain fog for years and a strong family history of strokes and heart disease, so far I've had the all-clear so I'm not expecting anything amiss. Main thing is count the carbs, because they make my blood sticky because I'm diabetic, as long as I can keep my A1C and fasting glucose down, the rest seems to stay pretty normal. I've mentioned elsewhere that Scott's granny lived to 102 WITH diabetes WITHOUT meds BECAUSE she watched her carbs. It's doable. No excuses!!!
Notable hit locations coming in from my update last night. Pinky is pleazed. Everyone eat a cookie today.
I'm writing because it's important. We all need to know that NONE of us are alone.
Made it through a second round of thunder, seems pretty quiet out there. Everything's all warmed up- fingers *check* keyboard *check* goggles *check* brain *-* brain *-* BRAIN *check!*
lol, someone tried to get into my grandfortuna stat counter.
I'm a little slap happy. Lotta burrito time over the big holiday weekend, stayed medicated every single day last week for the first time since last August.
Monday is always hard after a big holiday weekend. Put this in your head and GET TO WORK!
This post is an intellectual exercise in discipline to keep me working through a challenging week. Engaging the mind is the same as engaging the body. Some people like to work out to relax, I like to organize my thoughts and diagram sentences in between many little chores through the day. I have worked extra hard this week for holiday and burrito-sitting, so I need uninterrupted transmission synch, i.e. something to proofread and produce that isn't part of something vital. I may as well blather on in a stultifyingly boring way about business.
Part of my growth plan on twitter is listing. I can sort followers with serious mission statements intoappropriate lists, which helps others find them faster. The idea is that people who want to be found will follow me because they want to be organized for easier finding. This is working better than I ever intended. I've also noticed I have a few hard hitters on some of my lists, even direct competitors, and I'm grateful they continue to follow even after I have listed them, which is the polite thing to do, and it means I can grow my twitter organically as opposed to puffing up my numbers purchasing followers, like some people feel compelled to do. Besides supporting them with my listings, I also occasionally retweet for them if I find their tweets conducive to the atmosphere I cultivate onmy own timeline. I'm also pretty good about retweeting for people when they tag me, within reason.
There are others, however, who haven't quite caught on that it's spectacularly rude to use people to get free rides if you're using twitter to make money. This is particularly gauche when genuine accounts (as opposed to spam) actually keep an eye on when they get followed back and then drop back off to keep their own following numbers down. Many tweeps are thrilled someone 'big time' followed but fail to notice it wasn't for long. In my case, some of these professionals have noticed their peers making it onto my lists, and quickly hop onto the follow bandwagon to get listed, and then hop off within 24 hours of getting listed so they can keep their own following list trimmed down. I've experimented with this phenomenon, sometimes waiting several days before I follow back and list just to see if they really do track that closely, and it's becoming annoyingly predictable which ones will do this.
There is one that I listed and they unfollowed within the day, which I had a feeling would happen, based on their low following/follower ratio, so I unfollowed right back AND unlisted them. This is my usual course of action, and most of them don't even noticed they dropped back off my lists, which cracks me up because they thought they were the ones outwitting me. This one, however, noticed very quickly, and refollowed me, I assume with the thinking that they'd get listed again. I'm one to experiment and toy with tiny minds, so I ignored it, but watched. That account unfollowed and refollowed me three more times trying to get my attention*wow*BUT that account has never once retweeted anything of mine, nor has it attempted to interact with me at all. It keeps kicking my door thinking if it kicks long enough, I'll automatically put it back into lists and then fail to notice when they unfollow again. This aggressive persistence at utter rudeness is almost inspiring me to block. What's really sad is that they have a solid business mission that I could easily get behind and support and would be useful for a lot of people, but there's just no way I'm sending them incidental traffic by naming or linking them. I don't care how many followers a twitter account has, I don't care if they are celebrities or rich CEOs, I don't care if what they offer is something I am personally interested in, if they can't bother supporting me back in kind and rather choose to go out of their way to be obnoxious to me, *poof* they disappear from my field of vision. It's just very unsportsmanlike, if I may borrow a term. Yes, you may assume the account I'm speaking of is 'someone' or 'something' compared to us wee folks.
I have goals, and everything I'm doing on twitter is me getting ready for much bigger stuff. I'm hand picking my gangs, my crews, my teams, and personally filtering and vetting the people I hook up with, no matter how remote or vague the connection. People who give me crap will keep going *poof*. We won't even notice them disappearing. That business accounts are already becoming this demanding while I'm still such a little person means some of them can see what I'm doing and where I'm heading with this, and they want in on the ride. I have stated on some of my blogs that I will NEVER ask for money to share links, but that doesn't mean I pile people on for free just to fill up an index page. The money I intend to make will come from sales, not rent space. This doesn't mean that following me on twitter automatically gets anyone listed for free.
I have posted my own mission statement here. I originally wrote it on June 29, 2013 and posted it in a private blog. It might seem dumb, but I'm very serious about it. If you'd like to read it use password mydogatemyhomework. I wrote it so I would have focus for my twitter account. As an afterthought I'd like to add that not long after writing it out I invested another $2000, and that everything I planned comes from observing other successful people on the internet. I followed Wil Wheaton on twitter nearly from the start with a previous twitter account and watched him build and move his empire around, I've been watching Chris Hardwick since the old G4 days and was elated watching him sprout and take over the world, and I've watched Jenny Lawson ever since Wil Wheaton linked her picture of him collating. These people are internet royalty because they got where they are pretty much on their own hard work and wits, and that is exactly what I intend to do, too, although I'm probably going in a different direction.
I think it's important that we care about one another enough to have a little courtesy and respect, even with strangers on twitter. I think it's important to keep negativity out of my life and my way. I have no interest in faking my way through anything or impressing anybody. If someone irks me- *poof*. We won't even know about it, even if they're SOMEONE and have tons of followers and know all kinds of famous people. But I might pull a Wheaton and write a blog post about stuff. He set a precedent so it's ok. I just won't name names. *poof*
Pinky Robot has been temporarily reassigned for July 3rd.
But not to worry! If you are stuck at home or work with not much to do while everyone else is bouncing around, you can have some car wash fun! This one is from a site that has hidden object games.
Lemme guess, you want something more entertaining without having to do anything. *booya* These are things you should never do in a real car wash. Well, unless someone is has puked or it still puking in your car, then you can understandably panic. (edit: original youtube was removed, but looks like someone else put it back up with a new title, contents appear to be the same)
Speaking of panic, this makes my own anxiety look pretty mild. Imagine if it were the zombie apocalypse.
Or @GroovyBruce?
