April 14 2016

April 14 2016 Greetings My Friend I am learning new things again. This particular subject is not one I had wanted to deal with but I find I must learn in order to move forward. For several days now I have tried to load my Facebook page Letters From Janet and my blog by the same name onto a social media management site. I have used this site for a few years now and it has made it possible for me to advertise and along with using a sentence or 2 to give a thought. These quips have garnered interest and people were responding to the thoughts that the advertisements. I could not figure out why I was not able to get in until yesterday when I was finally allowed back in. If I want to use this management site I will need to pay for it. Since I have never had to pay I am choosing to learn another way around my situation. Even though I look at my writings as a job I am not looking to make money, just to share my faith journey, my struggles in life. My writing also is helping me to pinpoint what is truly on my own heart. While pondering my situation I realized that my tablet and phone has allowed me to share links where my laptop does not. This means I will need to write more on the tablet and share this way except there is one problem. These devices are on Verizon and Verizon connections are sketchy up on our mountain. I have hooked them to our internet provider Hughes Net but these devices still are sketchy. Junior has his laptop and his tablet hooked up to Hughes Net, I have my 3 devices hooked up and I wonder if we have too many devices slowing down our connection. My brain is starting to hurt from all this trying to figure out how to use my devices and to post my writings. Another problem I have had recently is trying to copy my blog writing from my word program to the social media site so I have started writing on the blog itself. Here I am able to write, to save it as a draft and to schedule when the writing goes out to Google+. When my niece first set up this blog for me I had a hard time posting on the blog site so I used the word program. Today I understand what I am doing more fully. For some reason God has given me to opportunity to keep stretching my ability to think and to learn new things. I am getting around fairly well on the computer these days. I am learning the ins and outs more so. When I worked I told everyone I was a user, I was trained on what I needed to know to do my job and I was good with that. Today I wish I would have tried to learn more about the workings of my programs. I think I would have transitioned into the internet for my writings more so. Today I have to keep working at it until something gels for me. When I discovered yesterday that my social media management site was not available I got irritated so I decided to take a nap. That was my pout and the way I voiced my disdain at the new situation. When I woke up I then started searching for new ways to do old things. In life sometimes I find it to my advantage to let go of a situation for a short period of time before trying again. It has helped me maintain a level attitude and in that I am progressing through the problem. I wanted to remain with the familiar and God is teaching me to push beyond the familiar from time to time. At the end of the day I am grateful to see I can do more than I thought I could because God insisted on me pushing myself. May God bless you and keep you make His face shine on you. Love Janet