Category: just playing around with technology

• March 9, 2022

  International Women’s Day 2022

  

  Hello! It’s me again. I told you I’ll be blogging through the ides of March and here’s day 2. This post is a little bit about learning WordPress (that eternal, elusive goal…) and a little more about International Women’s Day (and robots). Let’s get the WP stuff out of the way — here’s my latest…
• March 7, 2022

  …and we’re tweeting!

  

  I just did a Google search for “automatically post WordPress to Twitter” and found a slew of confusing results and random plugin recommendations. Turns out it’s probably easier than I thought; my WordPress.com dashboard guided me to the “publicize” feature and I just connected Twitter. Let’s see if this post shows up. You’re welcome for…
• March 7, 2022

  The Ide(a)s of March

  

  Yes, this title of this post is a play on words — and as this History.com article highlights, many of us are scared of the ideas of March (whatever “ides” are). The ides of March…or March 15th, to be specific…don’t have to be bad or scary. In my case, they may still be scary. But…
• February 28, 2022

  One Year with Cheyenne

  

  #GotchaDay We finalized adoption paperwork and brought home Cheyenne one year ago today (February 28th, 2021). At least, I think it was a year ago. Time is weird these days. I’m trying to get better at blogging, so this is a “you have 5 minutes left” reminder to myself to get some photos up of…
• December 9, 2021

  It’s a post, from my iPad!

  After 47 hours spent figuring out how to log into the WP app on my iPad (don’t ask), I am here, writing a post. I wish I could use the image compare block here, because that thing is magical. Instead, enjoy this random cat video I found on my iPad. Next time, I might write…