Hi Megan. I'm not much help. The Substack system continues to baffle me, and it probably doesn't help that I'm nearly always squinting at it with one eye clamped shut, at my aging iphone.
This also explains why I'm not around as much anymore. Well, that and I'm getting a bit senile and don't have much to say. /sigh
Even so, it is heartening to me that you are still kicking, and as brilliant as ever.
From what I can see, you have more to say than a good many people (some possibly being bots) on Substack! If I had to read this on an iPhone, I think my eyes would protest loudly and threaten to quit, and I might finally take up knitting instead. I'm amazed that you can endure it. Thank you for replying!
I do most of my reading on an iPad Mini (running wired -- Wi-Fi turned off), whether eBook or audio book (preferred!), and that works fairly well although it sure wasn't cheap. The newest ones replace the lightning connector with something better (USB-C) that hopefully won't wear out after three years and render the whole thing useless. For replying, I have a PC, and the business helps pay for all of this -- the owner (me) donates to the cause (not tax deductible).
I never expected to live this long, and but for a long succession of events that I interpret as divine interventions, I would not be writing this now. I'm not exactly the picture of health -- I never was -- but I notice that other people I know in this age range (I'm 74 and seven months) aren't either and one of them died recently at 76. I hear about all the people who live on into their 80s and 90s, and I know some of those (their health: pretty bad), but the reality is that I'm quickly approaching average lifespan. Which for me is a literal miracle. My mother lived to 54 (b. 1923), and my father to 58 (b. 1924). Not healthy.
While life is becoming more difficult with aging, I am grateful to have this extra time, although I had envisioned living it in a considerably better world than the present one. I would like to contribute what I can, while I can, but it's not clear right now how to proceed, other than with the limited in-person activities in which I am involved.
Substack is a disappointment, but I don't plan to give it up. My MS Teams server is available as an extension -- I hardly use it now, but it is bundled as part of a larger business package -- if I could see what to do with it. It supports instant messaging, person-to-person and group chats, and audio and video conferencing, things Substack doesn't do or doesn't do well. It's here for people that might want to engage and collaborate around the kinds of things I write about here and in Notes.
Megan, sadly my brain has gone foggy most days. I'm still trying to work that out. I let myself be talked into taking an SSRI years ago for anxiety, and I'm currently in the beginning stages of titering down my dose. My plan is to try methylene blue in a few weeks, but that particular substance supposedly increases risk of serotonin syndrome if combined with SSRI's, MAOI's, and some others.
As for using my phone to peck away online, that's because sitting or standing at a desk becomes painful after a very few minutes (back/hip/knee degeneration subsequent to multiple injuries).
And I'm only 66! But since I was pronounced to be on the verge of death from pneumonia at age 3, I figure that's 63 years of cake, and counting! It was somewhat difficult to survive COVID 1.0 and Delta, but thankfully was never forced into a hospital, and am blessed to have had a caring Physician's Assistant for the former, and a caring M.D. for the latter! They were distinctly different from the many bouts of (bacterial) pneumonia I have previously endured.
Megan, I'm grateful that you have such a heart to serve and a mind to do so well, and that you have beaten your family's odds to be still here among us! Thanks for what you do.
Hi Megan. I'm not much help. The Substack system continues to baffle me, and it probably doesn't help that I'm nearly always squinting at it with one eye clamped shut, at my aging iphone.
This also explains why I'm not around as much anymore. Well, that and I'm getting a bit senile and don't have much to say. /sigh
Even so, it is heartening to me that you are still kicking, and as brilliant as ever.
From what I can see, you have more to say than a good many people (some possibly being bots) on Substack! If I had to read this on an iPhone, I think my eyes would protest loudly and threaten to quit, and I might finally take up knitting instead. I'm amazed that you can endure it. Thank you for replying!
I do most of my reading on an iPad Mini (running wired -- Wi-Fi turned off), whether eBook or audio book (preferred!), and that works fairly well although it sure wasn't cheap. The newest ones replace the lightning connector with something better (USB-C) that hopefully won't wear out after three years and render the whole thing useless. For replying, I have a PC, and the business helps pay for all of this -- the owner (me) donates to the cause (not tax deductible).
I never expected to live this long, and but for a long succession of events that I interpret as divine interventions, I would not be writing this now. I'm not exactly the picture of health -- I never was -- but I notice that other people I know in this age range (I'm 74 and seven months) aren't either and one of them died recently at 76. I hear about all the people who live on into their 80s and 90s, and I know some of those (their health: pretty bad), but the reality is that I'm quickly approaching average lifespan. Which for me is a literal miracle. My mother lived to 54 (b. 1923), and my father to 58 (b. 1924). Not healthy.
While life is becoming more difficult with aging, I am grateful to have this extra time, although I had envisioned living it in a considerably better world than the present one. I would like to contribute what I can, while I can, but it's not clear right now how to proceed, other than with the limited in-person activities in which I am involved.
Substack is a disappointment, but I don't plan to give it up. My MS Teams server is available as an extension -- I hardly use it now, but it is bundled as part of a larger business package -- if I could see what to do with it. It supports instant messaging, person-to-person and group chats, and audio and video conferencing, things Substack doesn't do or doesn't do well. It's here for people that might want to engage and collaborate around the kinds of things I write about here and in Notes.
Thanks again -- Megan
Megan, sadly my brain has gone foggy most days. I'm still trying to work that out. I let myself be talked into taking an SSRI years ago for anxiety, and I'm currently in the beginning stages of titering down my dose. My plan is to try methylene blue in a few weeks, but that particular substance supposedly increases risk of serotonin syndrome if combined with SSRI's, MAOI's, and some others.
As for using my phone to peck away online, that's because sitting or standing at a desk becomes painful after a very few minutes (back/hip/knee degeneration subsequent to multiple injuries).
And I'm only 66! But since I was pronounced to be on the verge of death from pneumonia at age 3, I figure that's 63 years of cake, and counting! It was somewhat difficult to survive COVID 1.0 and Delta, but thankfully was never forced into a hospital, and am blessed to have had a caring Physician's Assistant for the former, and a caring M.D. for the latter! They were distinctly different from the many bouts of (bacterial) pneumonia I have previously endured.
Megan, I'm grateful that you have such a heart to serve and a mind to do so well, and that you have beaten your family's odds to be still here among us! Thanks for what you do.