Tuesday 4 & Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. Why did you begin blogging?  I was looking for graphics and found "country graphics" That led to a whole community of people that were making webpages with a country flair. Most of the women had their sites through Yahoo-Geocities. We were assigned names and numbers. Geocities has easy page setups with a single page and graphics that are similar to a plain Blogger page. Then things upgraded to more complicated set ups and we were getting Websites. I think my first Geocities site was from 1998.

I had new site by 2000 and actually added 2 other sites. So now we had "Webhomes." We got our own domain names and I got garden4mylord.com and called it Susan's Garden of Friendship. We all had a guestbook set up were we visited each other and we could even leave gifts. We exchanged banners , signatures-siggies and cards. We shared our new pages and we made many pages. I still have my website. That were written with html-computer language and I learned from others. Some pages have 3-4 backgrounds We could really be creative with your pages by adding music and animation. I started blogging in 2002 and I have all my pages at my webhome. Then something changed. Facebook came on the scene and lots of people that made pages now could make farms from Farmtown and Farmville. Then more people moved to the free Blogger pages. I visited people on Blogger, but they did not understand inline frames. This is when you click on a link from th column and the page opens in the middle. I got a Blogger page in 2007 but didn't use it much. Then I officially moved my blog over here in 2021. 

2. What benefits does blogging offer you? It has allowed me to make new friends.  It lets me use my graphics and stories from my webhome. I met women from all over the World through his country webhomes and many great artist were born. I still can be creative. 

3. Have you made friends from blogging? Yes, I have made many friends and have met a few.

4. Where do you get ideas for things you blog about? Do other bloggers influence you? Blogs were about your life. When 911 happened, the graphic artist made graphic to share on your blog to show our compassion for what happened. Some of these artist were from other countries showing they cared.

One of my favorite things from my old Susan's GOF was the Homework page. One of my friends was a teacher. Each month she gave an assignment. We would all do our assignment on a creative page and then we would turn in our assignment. Then we would all visit each other's pages. This was 2003-2006

Now we use memes that work in a similar way. But back then, everyone visited everyone's pages. I don't see that as often in some of the memes now.

1.  Are you more life of the party or more party pooper? If your answer is somewhere in the middle which side of the middle do you lean towards more? Middle, I love to be around people, but I do need my down time.

Birthday party, beach party, cocktail party, dinner party, charity fundraiser, surprise party, costume party, garden party, Christmas party, reunion...what's your favorite kind of party? I would say birthday party first and Christmas second. Birthday to celebrate one's life that is a gift from God. Two, a time for family and friends to come together and celebrate our Lord's birth.

2. Cheese, wine, and balsamic vinegar all improve with age. What would you personally add to the list?

 The appreciation of life and specifically with my relationship with Jesus.

3. How do you feel about your birthday? How do you want to be celebrated? Or don't you? I appreciate each year I get. My family gave me a 70th birthday and it was fun to be with my family. This is me at 2 and My tablecloth says Happy Birthday from Disneyland.

4. What remarkable feat, interesting piece of trivia, or historical event occurred on your birthday and month? Not necessarily your same birth year, just the same date/month. My granddaughter was born on my birthday. The Singer sewing machine was patented-1851, Josephy Lister used antiseptic-1861, Thomas Edison records himself on the early phonograph-1877. First model-T tested by Henry Ford in 1808, Clarence Birdseye gets a patent for quick freezing food-1930. Minimum wage is raised by President Eisenhower from.75 to $1.00-1955 Found here.

5. Share two good things about your life right now. I am caught up with my reading through the Bible, Day 260 with the Bible Recap Girl. Our new air conditioning is working great!

6. Insert your own random thought here. Looking forward to celebrating September birthdays with my family this Sunday. I am a little concerned about my upcoming surgery next Friday. I would appreciate your prayers!

Tuesday 4,

Maybe we could talk about the internet this week?  

1n 1987 I took a computer class just because I wanted to learn about computers. In 1988 my job at the post office asked if I had any computer experience and I said yes. I learned a lot over the years I worked in the Marketing Dept. Working with graphics and designing posters and Powerpoint pages was fun. 

1. When did the home internet age enter your life? How much impact has it had?

In 1992 I got my first home computer. I used D-base and Excel and Word. In 1994 I started putting together the newsletters for our Women's Ministry at church. In 1999 I got a new computer and AOL. Now I was on the WWW and ready to go. I discovered all these neat homepages. I think I broke every graphic rule there was and I had an email telling me what I was doing wrong. So, I set about to learn how to do things the right way. I used PageMaker at Geocities and from there with the help of some graphic artist, I learned html. At one point I had 3 websites, a blog and an online study group and totally enjoying myself. I still have my website that has over 300 pages. The link is on the right.  I got a blogger page for fun but did not officially start blogging here until 2020 because Blogger friends did not how to work my website blog that had link to different pages. I did lots of layered pages with lots of pretty graphics. I refer to it to answer questions here. The Site Map takes to many of the pages listed. My Homework link has 4 years of monthly questions. My website has a lot and I miss the country Web home community.

2. How powerful an influence if your phone?  For instance, do you feel guilty not answering when you are busy? Do you text back immediately? Does the phone own you? Do you friends feel they should be able to monopolize your time by demanding to know where you were when you didn't answer?  Is it intrusive or welcome? 

My cellphone is important and is a minicomputer. I like to pay Words with Friends(Scrabble) on it. I don't do ay banking on it. I do here on my laptop. I work on Blogger on my laptop. I do enjoy using Facebook and Instagram. I can access my crafting group and life group from apps on my cell phone. Taking pictures, it is so convenient. I do miss using a regular camera. Messaging with my family and friends in the most important thing for me. I mostly message, so I don't use the phone as much anymore.

3. What places do you frequent on the net and by phone or PC etc.?  (pc.. personal computer , laptop, etc.)

I visit my Bible journaling and crafting groups on both, but it is much easier to read on my laptop. I like getting graphics for Bible journaling at IllustratedFaith.com and Etsy. I purchase them, download them to my computer and print them out.  I like to play music on my laptop and watch YouTube Videos.

I do a lot of Bible research online too. I used to play Farmville for 10 years on my laptop. It was fun and I could be creative. It ended at the end of 2020. It was fun but could be very time consuming.

4.   Wikipedia is editable and biased because anyone can edit the articles. Algorithms also determine what you can and cannot find on the interest. So, how much stock do you place in its information?

There is always way to find information. I don't believe a lot of things I read, especially on social media. I do my research and make my own conclusions. I prefer to do my studying in my study Bibles. My best ones have extra-large print.

You can find my post about blogging here.