LOOKS LIKE WE 'OPEN LIVE WRITER' AND 'PICASA' USERS ARE IN FOR A BIG BAD DOUBLE WHAMMY

A few desert dwelling coyotes howling in the pre-dawn hours and aside from that all was peacefully quiet.  Had we stayed where we were I'm sure we would have gone to bed and woke up with the sounds of generators hammering in our ears. 

THIS IS THE VIEW FROM MY RECLINER OUT OUR SIDE WINDOW

Under morning's sunshine we again had us another relaxing morning walk.  We are now parked closer to a number of Palo Verde trees and how nice to hear birds tweetering in the nearby tree branches.  It was 55F when we stepped out of the coach with a predicted high today of 65F.  How many times can I say, 'El Perfecto':))

WE WALKED OURSELVES ALONG AN ARROYO WHICH IS A STEEP-SIDED GULLY FORMED BY THE ACTION OF FAST FLOWING WATER  

A GNARLY UNICORNED DESERT DWELLER GIVES ME THE EYE 

Tried 'Open Live Writer' several times today but no go.  I've suspected ever since the original Live Writer went down a few years ago that sooner or later the refurbished Open Live Writer would follow suit and that time may be now at hand.  If they do get it fixed I think it's only a matter of time and it will go down again and be gone forever.  With that thought in mind I spent some time earlier this morning familiarizing myself with the 'Blogger' format once again.  Not my favorite of course but it's my only option if I want to keep my blog going.  There are a few other formats out there like 'Word Press' but I have no interest in that and I'm not into any more learning curves with all this stuff.  I guess 'Blogger' it will have to be and maybe with a bit of luck I can get their clunky way of doing things figured out.  

 And speaking of changes it looks like we 'Picasa' photo editing program users are in for some very bad news and it seems it could be at the heart of the Open Live Writer program as well.  I think the end of an era is at last here.  First, a copy and pasted note from one of the 'Open Live Writer' techs.....'We'll try to get a hotfix out if we can work around it. As @jbogard says, Google's API changes broke this, and I expect they will keep happening'. Also this link about Picasa this morning so I'm thinking the final demise of Picasa is at hand and I think this may explain the current Open Live Writer program.  So what does this mean for my blog:((

'OH NO MY DAD'S HAVING BIG BLOGING PROBLEMS AGAIN'

Well, it means if I can't use Picasa to edit my photos then there is no point in me taking any more photos...….unless I can quickly find and learn myself another photo editing program.  Am going to try something called Photopea as well as Windows PhotoScape X.  I've suspected for a long time this day was coming but I have put off dealing with the end of both Open Live Writer and Picasa.  A Picasa extension is possible until March when Picasa will be closed down forever.  At least that is the way I am understanding things this morning. 

KELLY DOWNLOADS PHOTOPEA AND PHOTOSCAPE X FOR ME

Can you believe it's almost a whole week we have now been in one place.  I remember last winter when we seemed to be in such a rush all the time.  We would just get to one place and we'd already be looking at the next place and away we would go.  So far this trip we've not had that urge to move on after a day or two and today was a good example of that as we again simply lounged around the rig not doing too much of anything.  Just soaking up the sunshine and the desert's refreshingly cool westerly cool breezes today.

AND PHEEBS LIKES THIS SLOWER PACE AS WELL

GROANER'S CORNER:(( The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.  "However, in government more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.  And, of course...
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position

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A sixth grade class is doing some spelling drills. The teacher asks Tommy if he can spell 'before.' He stands up and says, "Before, B-E-P-H-O-R."The teacher says, "No, that's wrong. Can anyone else spell before?" Another little boy stands up and says, "Before, B-E-F-O-O-R.  "Again the teacher says, "No, that's wrong." The teacher asks, "Little Johnny, can you spell 'before'?  "Little Johnny stands up and says, "Before, B-E-F-O-R-E."  "Excellent Johnny, now can you use it in a sentence?  "Little Johnny says, "That's easy. Two plus two be fore."

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