I guess I am paying for this platform. Finally.

I need to pay for a year of write.as because it has been my favorite #writing #app since i started #blogging (in 2006). It is like $50 a year (or $4 a month which i missed this month's payments (oops)). So i will go ahead and pay the $50 so i can have all the features because this platform truly does value your #privacy (though I wish there was a Yubikey 2FA option available), and this thing is incorporated w/ the Fediverse pretty well (Mastodon), and is just easy as fuck to use.

But also, I am getting pretty inspired to create more “content” or at least do more stuff online than I have been doing in the past two weeks. I am awaiting the EdX course to start on Oct.3 but that is a ways away (one month to the day, specifically). I need to find something to do before then, but I am good with spending this time reading #books that I have been meaning to catch up on as well. I have one from SLCL about book #publishing that I wanna get in to + another book by Bonnie Kristian that I wanna start (as soon as it arrives). I respect her and the amount of work she put into it (even though the subject matter is about religion, and I am atheist) and I ordered it from an indie bookstore that is in like....upstate NY or some shit because I

A) wanna support indie bookstores B) say “fuck you” to Amazon C) hope both the store and the author make more money than an Amazon or Books-A-Million sale would D) because I support the author and bookseller because I enrolled (or hope to enroll) in a possible online course that this upstate NY bookseller is offering that is about the publishing business.

As you can tell from that list + the book I am reading right now, I am thinking about giving a PRO book a go. “Pro” meaning I want to publish a book the legit way. A lot, a LOT of hard fucking work goes into writing/publishing a book though. I wrote a couple little books in the past that I made into #ebooks and I am proud of them, but I have one, ONE good book in me that needs to see the light of day.

More on that later

Be back soon

Updated all my Apple I.D. info (FINALLY)

It was a few minutes of my phone constantly going off from PM e-mails + 2FA confirmations, but I got everything updated. All that shit was from like late-2013 but now it is legit :)

I also made some freeshhhh to death coffee and am feeling p good considering I haven't had tobacco in a good deal of time. In fact, I feel very good. And I am giving myself a break from the #EdX lecture tonight because if I hit a snag/get frustrated, I will freak the fuck out when I have no nicotine to console me. LOL!

Now that I have the Apple I.D. shit figured out, I am thinking of other #privacy, #safety, #security measures I can take to protect myself online. I decided that I am only going to d/l #apps from the Mac App Store and not from the “Open Internet” and also, I am being Verrrry careful about WHICH apps I d/l from the App Store, because a lot are bogus as fuck.

So, anyway. Good times

be back in a bit!