Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Success! Or not...or maybe so!


This is what success look like!

Apparently the Google+ app can backup your photos, which allows for easy sharing on Blogger.  I finally figured that all out, and now you can see me on vacation in Florida.  This was the Sarasota Jungle Gardens, a tiny little bird sanctuary that houses a cockatoo that was on Ed Sullivan the same season as Elvis.  He's seventy-something.  This parrot is NOT that bird, obviously.  He's a jealously guarded old thing.

The main draw of the gardens is this:

Hm...apparently that success was short-lived.  Now all those glorious photos I had access to are missing.  What the fuck, Google?  What.  The.  Fuck.

Well...welcome to the frustration that occupies 90% of my waking life.  I'm so angry all the time...

Ugh.

I'm going to go before I punch something.

*****



They're back!  Okay...I don't know what's going on here, but...whatever.  Anyone else have an active distrust of all things technology-based?  I didn't used to...but frequent "upgrades" have left me wondering where the good stuff was moved to and if it still exists in a lot of places.

I am aware that I sound like a crusty old man.  I'm not.  But I'd be lying if I said that I saw "improvement" as just a sugar-coated way of saying "change" and sometimes even "changes that allow us to make more money without adding anything of use to you"...but...anywho...

That photo above is my man, hand-feeding a flamingo.  THAT is the main draw of the Sarasota Jungle Gardens.  There is a HUGE flock of them that just come stalking over when you get the feed out.  I had one tap me on the shoulder while I was standing.  They're THAT tall.  Kind of intimidating...but cool.

So...anywho...that was three weeks ago.  Welcome.

Out

4 comments:

David said...

Remember to breathe. This too shall pass.

Bryan Ochalla said...

Seems you found success in the end. Hurrah! Also looks like the two of you had a fun time in Florida. Double hurrah :)

Viewtiful_Justin said...

David, yeah...it's an issue.

Viewtiful_Justin said...

Bryan, I did! Oh, that was a tiny little piece of vacation...we did Universal and saw the Harry Potter village and all that junk, went to the beach, and almost got killed when a mattress flew out of a truck bed on the drive home. Scary!