email blogging
it’s easier to disguise blogging when you do it via an email interface, so i am taking advantage of blogger’s email blog setting. let’s see if this works.
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life has been pretty good lately. things are going well with seppo. the dog is calming down, slowly but surely. i am developing a skeleton of an idea for the novel, which i have shamefully put off until december. i do have some worries, of course, mainly having to do with finances. i have to get a repair on my car because the half-shaft boot which keeps it protected and free from rain and road grit has cracked. i have to renew my registration, which involves getting smogged. i have to renew my insurance. i have to renew my AAA membership. i have to send my mom some money because of some wood repair and treatment we are doing on the house. i should send my dad some money before Christmas so he has time and money to buy some stuff. i am somewhat worried about the scope of my project and that i’m not fully on top of every detail yet, with time slipping by oh-so-quickly. still, i’m happy overall.
i sometimes wonder if it’s a blessing or a curse that i appear to have no ambition. mostly, i am happy and thankful for who i am, because it lets me lead a fulfilled life. but i sometimes wonder if i shouldn’t be doing more, being more. and i also wonder if that’s just an ego problem.
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eta: it looks like email blogging adds line breaks, so i had to go back and manually delete them. boo.
In order to enable email blogging, log on to http://www.blogger.com, click on “change settings”, then the “email” tab under “settings”. there are two items on that page. one is to enable email notification to you when you publish (which is weird, unless you have multiple people publishing to your blog, i guess), and the other one is to enable an email address, which looks like [your account name].[4 or more characters you choose]@blogger.com, that you can use to post entries. you check the “publish” checkbox and click “save settings”. this means that you can, from any email account, write to that account, and it will automatically show up in your account. for me, it didn’t work because my gmail put in auto-linebreaks, which made things look goofy. i could use my work email account and disable linebreaks, but i don’t want to use my work account for non-work stuff.
I mean, “show up on your blog”.
It’s rather odd, but in the last year or so, I’ve lost all ambition. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I’ve finally reached the point I thought I’d never reach and now that I have, everything else is just gravy?
ETA: Thinking about that statement, I realize that I lied. It’s not that I have no ambition, but rather, my ambitions have changed.
What are your new ambitions?
“it’s easier to disguise blogging when you do it via an email interface, so i am taking advantage of blogger’s email blog setting.”
Wuzzat?
A_B