Aloha from Honolulu!
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| Scudding |
The clouds are scudding
across the moon,
A misty light is on the sea;
The wind in the shrouds
has a wintry tune, And
the foam is flying free.
Bayard Taylor
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| Chasing |
Don't waste your time
chasing things that will
never be beneficial
to your future.
April Mae Monterrosa
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| Frolicking |
Most of the touch
that keeps us all going is as
innocent as a newborn lamb
frolicking on the spring grass,
Laurell K. Hamilton
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| Towering |
Towering genius
disdains a beaten path.
Abraham Lincoln
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| Manu-o-Kū (Gygis alba) is a native Hawaiian seabird found throughout many tropical and subtropical areas in the Pacific, Southern Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Link |
When circumstances
upset your equanimity,
lose no time in recovering
your self-control,
and do not remain out of tune
longer than you can help.
Habitual recurrence to
the harmony will increase
your mastery of it.
Marcus Aurelius
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| Sign Of The Times |
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| Wait. Bring those white birds back! |
Unexpected kindness is
the most powerful, least costly,
and most underrated
agent of human change.
Bob Kerrey
Most computers are like Thoroughbred horses
that never run a race.
They are capable of so much, but most of us do relatively simple, routine tasks like checking email, surfing the web, watching videos, Zoom meetings. Even we bloggers do our work at Google's desk, so to speak. We edit something on our blog, it's immediately updated online. Throw your computer out the window, and you will find ALL our "Stuff" including your Blogger desktop, when you sign into your Google account on a different device. Of course, whatever data is actually ON your computer hard-drive
lives and dies with that hard drive. We've all heard stories of the novelist or PhD candidate who lost their all-but-complete opus on a stolen, lost, or damaged laptop!
This is the reason to back up what you do not wish to lose! That's why I like Google, Amazon, and services like them: I work on their servers! No updates, no diagnosing problems. Let them handle it! Perhaps you have heard of
CHROMEBOOK?
A chromebook is a device with no hard drive, very little memory, that does one thing brilliantly: it gets you to Google's servers who take you wherever you want to go! Simple. No updates. They do ALL that. But would a CHROMEBOOK suffice for me and my photos and blogging? The verdict is a resounding YES! I take photos on my Pixel phone which are uploaded immediately to Google servers, edited there, stored there. Then deposited in my blog posts directly! If you need complicated photo editing, there ARE online/ APP options! You can install many Android apps directly on your CHROMEBOOK desktop! [Including text messenger and others you use on your phone.]
This is the third post I am creating on my
PIXELBOOK GO [that's a link] and I LOVE LOVE LOVE this thing! Convenient size, light, great keyboard, clear bright screen.
Some little tasks are accomplished a bit differently than you may be used to. But I have had no issues. PLUS it also has GOOGLE ASSISTANT which answers any questions I have about how to do what I want to do! Of course, you can google any questions you have, and sites like How To Geek will pop out the answer you need. IT experts have told me that they do that a LOT! Note: Pixelbook is made by Google, Other CHROMEBOOKS are available at all price ranges by many other manufacturers and available at Best Buy and Amazon. Lots of schoolkids and road warriors use Chromebooks. Find the one that fits your needs and budget. Remember, though, you get what you pay for . Some of the cheaper ones feel and look like toys.
This machine may be more expensive than some chromebooks, but it is much more affordable than a comparable laptop. Without the complexity, and security job that comes with any computer.
We Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie
