Blow me! I lost a follower today. Losing a few wives and partners along the rocky road of life is par for the course, but losing a blog follower smacks of carelessness. I have to wonder whether I’ve become either boring or offensive. Offensive I can just about live with, but boring would be intolerable.
The problem is, I don’t know who I’ve lost. It’s right, though. Google used to give 35 when the count was actually 34. Now they’re giving 34 when the count is 33.
Anybody want to own up and tell me where my fault lies? If not, I’ll pretend I don’t care. Actually, I don’t suppose I do really.
Ha! Those are the exact same thoughts I had when I lost one on 'three' of my blogs in one day. I just knew it had to be the same person. LOL!!! Same thoughts went through my head. My first thought was, "Was it something I said?" Mary
:-) I have had the same thing happen to me... and the fact that I could not figure out who drove me a bit nuts for a bit.. then I said forget it. My number has fluctuated several times and I am not sure why at all... I quit worrying about the # of those who follow me... If I have to worry about the fact that I may have said something I am not sure if I would ever write... Although I have been told that I do not write as blunt as I should... wonder what that means.... maybe its something I didn't say.....
Yes indeed, ladies. I'm not really concerned, just intrigued, especially as I can't think who it is. I've found taht icons also disappear when people close their own blogs. That's happened a couple of times.
It could mean several things, Paige. It could mean that they've shut down their blog so their icon doesn't appear in my Followers list any more, or it could mean that they've taken the conscious decision to disassociate with me, or it could mean that Google has messed up. And there are probably several other possibilities that the uninitiated like me wouldn't begin to guess at.
It really doesn't bother me, although I confess to being glad that it wasn't you.
I've never had money because I've never been driven by money. I received little formal education beyond the age of sixteen, which isn't such a bad thing since you get a different angle on life that way. Learning what you want and need to learn often reveals things that the system's road keeps hidden.
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To Be Retained...
...until death do re-unite or the Priestess return to Avalon.
Khalil Gibran on Children.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
OMAR KAYYAM ON REGRET.
The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
Herman Hess on Nobility
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self .
Free Fiction
I have another blog called A Handful of Stories on which I've posted some of my short fiction. Most of it has been published by a variety of independent small press publishers, so somebody other than me must have thought it worth reading.
All the permanent pictures and some of the posted ones on this blog are my copyright. Most of them, however, are placed with a picture library which holds the licensing rights. I don't, therefore, have the legal right to grant permission to use them.
An Inhabitant of the Hungry Ghost Realm
This character appears in one of my short stories, and also in the novel. He's sadder than he looks, poor thing.
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Ha! Those are the exact same thoughts I had when I lost one on 'three' of my blogs in one day. I just knew it had to be the same person. LOL!!! Same thoughts went through my head. My first thought was, "Was it something I said?"
Mary
:-) I have had the same thing happen to me... and the fact that I could not figure out who drove me a bit nuts for a bit.. then I said forget it. My number has fluctuated several times and I am not sure why at all... I quit worrying about the # of those who follow me... If I have to worry about the fact that I may have said something I am not sure if I would ever write... Although I have been told that I do not write as blunt as I should... wonder what that means.... maybe its something I didn't say.....
Yes indeed, ladies. I'm not really concerned, just intrigued, especially as I can't think who it is. I've found taht icons also disappear when people close their own blogs. That's happened a couple of times.
hm. well, maybe that person quit blogger?
What does losing a blogger mean exactly? I'm sorry to sound like a blogger neophyte.
It could mean several things, Paige. It could mean that they've shut down their blog so their icon doesn't appear in my Followers list any more, or it could mean that they've taken the conscious decision to disassociate with me, or it could mean that Google has messed up. And there are probably several other possibilities that the uninitiated like me wouldn't begin to guess at.
It really doesn't bother me, although I confess to being glad that it wasn't you.
I think that should have been 'disassociate from,' but it's late.
No worries. I took your meaning. I'm glad that it wasn't me as well! I would have been surprised.
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