Author: FLYNN

  • Finally verified my Bluesky account

    20250501-0024. Happy May 1st/Beltane! Moments ago, I have verified my Bluesky account using my domain name here! Me smart!

    I knew how to update the DNS Records of my Domain within a few minutes after reading through the Bluesky online documentation for “How to verify your Bluesky account” 20230423!

    I was able to complete this task in a short amount of time; because I tried self-hosting my site using the same OLD domain for a while. But managing the “back-end” of security and updates took too much of my time and energy.

    I just knew and felt comfortable enough where to make the changes on my hosting site.

    Yeah, so y’all know that I’m for real, thought I am NOT entirely/exactly an official organization or a high-profile individual.

    But I’d like to make my mark on Bluesky too, knowing that the chumps over at Twatter have been probably taking note of my rants, when I was able to post automatically to Twatter/Hex via my paid upgrade with Jetpack Social.

    That’s all for now. I could see that my previous WP post hit my BSKY account.

    Oh, and another reason for receiving that strange incoming thought to check on the status connecting to my social media accounts was because of May 1st being like another “New Year” or big deal unto moi, in my personal opinion.

    That’s all. End transmission 0034 PST.

  • Finally connected to Jetpack Social Bluesky

    20250430-2351. Moments ago and just like clockwork, I received an incoming thought to check on the status of my Jetpack Social: Bluesky. Lo and behold! [“The Bluesky account was connected successfully!]”

    I thought that Bluesky would NO longer be supported just like Twatter/Hex! And I was NOT gonna bother using the “quick manual sharing from the post editor to share it!”

    On or about 20260406 or whenever, I could NOT share my WP posts automatically via the Jetpack Social connection to my Bluesky! So I contacted team support/Happiness Engineer/Jetpack/Automattic/whoever and had THEM escalate my “concerns”.

    Yeah, so that took a while as I provided their requested screenshots and other findings for their data reports. And I guess that worked out VERY well; because on my new-post php page, I could see that I’m connected to Jetpack Social: Bluesky: FLYNN.

    I’m using the Classic editor for my new posts instead of the Block editor; because I feel Classic editor is good enough in its raw “Code” form instead of seeing all the bells and whistles of the Block editor. There is a Visual form for an more “enhanced” controls, such as “strikethroughs” or “delete” and its fancy date-time stamp!

    So here goes as I press the Publish button. End of transmission 20250501-0003: Happy May 1st/Beltane!

  • Street sweeper every 4th Monday

    20250428-1217. For my “hood”, our street sweeping occurs every fourth Monday each / per month. So I had to add yet another event to both my Reminder app and Alarm app due to being “forgetful and free” (per my OLD blogs).

    In conjunction with the Reminder’s app, which is more “visual”, I “hear” the “Bark” alarm (which is a barking dog and good boi hunde).

    These two apps help tremendously for my already busy schedule / distracted mind to further focus on the next event, such as taking my supplements, eating food, turning on the Xmas lights in the evening, downloading our bills and statements, distilling my municipal tap water, restarting our stupid egg-shaped router due to the constant glitching of our wireless cameras, and checking our cameras for the USPS truck (which is probably the only current “good” reason to get these gosh dammed useless electronic / wired / wireless devices in the first place after the 20230610 hit-and-run vehicles by four Chicano / Hispanic / Latino / Samoan whosoever gang boys, who took out our front water main and our entire front yard Montgomery Ward aluminum chain link fence!)

    When I’m too distracted / busy, I simply “snooze” the Alarm app and “remind me in one hour” the Reminder app. See? That’s why I agree that simple computerized / artificial intelligence do assist hu-manz and or wo-man-kinds!

    For some / whatever reason, I feel that we are ten years delayed in the sliding range of deploying advanced technological stuff to the general ungrateful / unworthy public at large.

    Furthermore, my “wokeness” did NOT occur until VERY late in life, meaning I’m still feeling like just another NPC who is clueless and gullible and who has NO survival instinct.

    So whosoever takes advantage of our “handicap” spiritualized or naturally, y’all are in a trap. Those who have cheated and stolen from me and mine many, many, many times over are already curse to Sheol forever. I’m just so fed up at this point because y’all still allow “remnants” to exit.

    This morning, my incoming thoughts indicated that my statement to that Live show / Video guy about “all or nothing” (by Lynn Ch@ng, our “lead” over 20 years ago) is in error with a the OLD guy’s blog about “remnants”, meaning that the perfection of our heavenly Father exists and there is NO such “nothingness” or “zero”.

    Hence, correction: “all or something” is true, instead of her philosophy of “all or nothing”. For our heavenly Father’s mercy and kindness even towards the worst kinds shall prevails forever.

    But I may be incorrect in my interpretation and understanding, being that I’m hard of hearing and going blind. Hehe.

    Oh, yeah. I was NOT gonna do anything today. But lo and behold, my cameras capture the truck doing its street sweeping.

    I saw how the piles of small dried Sycamore leaves were piled into our north-west facing corner lot but on MY long stretch of (my middle name here) Road.

    So I had NO other choice but to sweep up these small dried Sycamore leaves, which seemed to be much smaller than expected and probably my thoughts manifested that these three to four story tall tree of over 50 years old are ready to die and give me some relief from yard work of sweeping up these leaves.

    I sweated and sneezed and coughed and gagged on my spit and hacked-out my spit onto our sidewalk after inhaling the wetness of the dirt, debris and leaves from the rain last night and the past two nights or rather from the street sweeper rinse.

    That’s all for now. I took my electrolyte sports drink, ate three mini chocolate chips cookies from COST and slices of my tri-tip steak. I love steak and deli foodstuff. Yummy.

    I then took my anti-histamine and washed up. Next, I flushed my nasal passages with saline solution and by using the convenience of a squeeze bottle and cleared-out / hacked-out / snorted-out my sinuses from yard work cooties, which was clear amazingly.

    End transmission 1244 PST.

  • Updated my Gravatar profile

    20250427-1930. Yeah, so I’ve updated my Gravatar profile to include three of my social media accounts.

    I’ve also updated the Single Posts template to include the “About the author” profile way at the bottom like the “About the author” of the Apple Plus News articles that I read about “See the Mesmerizing Interlocking Geometric Patterns Produced With This Ancient Japanese Woodworking Technique”.

    I hand-crafted a short paragraph “About the author” from when I was still designing my front home page using one of the WP pre-designed pattern called “Link in Bio” and using the Elementor paid upgrade at that time.

    Besides that short descriptive paragraph, I’ve included the “Avatar” block, which really should be renamed as “Gravatar” proper. So this is also an added bonus to get to know MORE about that author than necessary.

    So yeah, I’m trying NOT to hide anymore. By now, some should know that I’m for real.

    That’s all. End of transmission 1938 PST.

  • Behold bento box front home page

    20250427-1837. Behold! I’ve repurposed my Front home page by resurrecting the Bento Grid (from theme Kentwood)!

    Earlier and while listening to that Live show/Video guy, I researched the popular, traditional or typical colors for “bento boxes”.

    The results displayed three main color combinations: red and black; natural wood tones (which I tried earlier but got stressed out filling in the five base colors from on of the Apple Plus News article on “27 Neutral Paint Colors and Tips from Experts On How to Use Them” and then using the slider to mute the border colors of default green, orange and pink); and black and gold accents.

    And because I’m back to theme Blank Canvas and using the presidential colors of dark-blue, stone cold and dried maroon and per the LEO AI Brave query results, I “forced” the colors to red, white and blue! The stone cold text against dried maroon seemed too bright for my eyeballs. But I’ll have to stick with it for now.

    This worked out VERY well for me and I’m pleased with the results! This front home page will be a keeper; because, dammit, I worked hard to make it PERFECT, in my opinion! I also had to borrow the Elementor “Hero” Content headers from my four OLD sites pages and plug those three headers into the top of my front home page. Why I did NOT “see” this balance earlier when I was still tweaking the Bento Grid pattern eludes unto moi!

    I still had a difficult time understanding how the Layout > Inner blocks use content width. And so I wanted ALL my precious static pages to have the same Full Width with the XS left and right paddings. Only the main front home page Cover image of chemtrails seem to have the smallest padding. All pages seem to line-up the same. I just keep saving and saving until the paddings of my pages lined-up! Sheesh.

    Thanks to one plug-in, which is only possible with a paid upgrade plan, my front home page features two randomized items: posts and verses! Hence, my newest tagline appropriately describes my nightmarish weblog site as: Flynn’s Blogs and God’s Words! For without this plug-in my randomized stuff simply won’t work; because I do NOT know how to “hard code”!

    Anyways, a duotone color of Magenta and Yellow has been applied to the main Cover image of chemtrails; because I felt that this looked appropriate and close to that of the other bento box color with gold accents!

    So with the red, white, blue, black and gold color palette, I should be happy now but for how long is another guess. I should stop it, because I’m getting tired of tweaking my weblog. I may actually have to just stop sitting at my desk hours on end doing nothing productive after all these years wasted on falsehood.

    Earlier, my elderly father and I watched the LAL and MIN NBA game and we were surprised at the winning team because the other team was also strong but got eliminated! I had to “shift” my perspective and forced myself to enjoy this particular game. Yeah, so my prayers worked here, too.

    End of transmission 1900 PST. Edited 1910 PST.

  • Jetpack Boost Overall Score A and Perfect 100

    20250426-1838. Behold! Moments ago, I just refreshed the Jetpack Boost for an Overall Score of “A” and with a perfect 100 for both Mobile (or 96 without the paid upgrade) and Desktop views!

    I’ve switched back to theme Blank Canvas, because I really needed the load-time/responsiveness for my weblog site to be PERFECT! Alas, I know this would be temporary probably.

    For y’all see, I’ve gotten an error message:

    ! Failed to load Speed Scores
    An error occurred while trying to communicate with the site REST API. Extra debug info:
    {“requestInitiator”:”https://flynnspaws.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack-
    boost”,”requestUrl”:”https://flynnspaws.com/wp-json/jetpack-boost/v1/speed-scores”,”requestArgs”:
    {“method”:”post”,”mode”:”cors”,”headers”:{“Content-Type”:”application/json”}},”originalErrorMessage”:”TypeError: Failed to
    fetch”}
    Try again

    So I do NOT know what is happening!

    Anyways, I colored-in the Titles with dried maroon, stone cold and dark-blue again!

    For the left Header/sidebar column, I colored-in the background/text in dark-blue/stone cold.

    For my KJV audio bible project, I’ve created a new Navigation menu for the 66 KJV audio bible pages and sorted alphabetically for my quick-reference and while listening to that Live show/Video guy whenever he happens to live stream.

    I placed that newly-created Navigation block inside the Details block towards the top of the Header; because there is still NO title-attribute for Navigation blocks, I guess.

    I set the text sizes to the Site Title block and the Site Tagline block to XXL (double-extra large) and L (large), respectively.

    I set the Navigation block of my main six static pages to Always Overlay/hide behind the triple-burger icon instead of the default double-burger icon; because nobody really clicks on anything/the links – anyways.

    The whole day was cloudy except during our mid-afternoon/post lunch power nap when the sunshine came out strongly and brightly. I prayed as usual and then busied myself with my weblog again.

    We had rain last night! I heard barely something that sounded like rain last night. But because my hearing is NOT great, I brushed/shrugged it off.

    But when I opened the backdoor black iron grill this morning, I noticed the wet spot from one of the main rain gutter from the second/two story level. I walked-over to that area and saw that the left-over “puddle” upon our concrete was indeed rain water.

    And I was glad that we got rain; because I’m hoping that our wildflower seeds for bees and hummingbirds would sprout/thrive.

    I never did plant this sort in my life; and I’m wondering how the spirits would be appeased with this outdoors project.

    That’s all. End of transmission 1855 PST. Edit 1900 PST.

  • Trying theme LowFi again

    20250426-1217. Welp, and just like clockwork, I tried theme Twenty-Twenty but my Jetpack Boost scored a letter grade of “C”.

    So I tried the latest theme Modernist but something slowed down my weblog site while in side-editor mode.

    So I tried theme Reblog and liked the stability of the elements but I just wasn’t feeling it.

    So I tried theme Memorphia again and I just wasn’t feeling it.

    So I’m trying LowFi again using the Lush/dark green color palette.

    The temperatures are cold. The skies are cloudy but I could see the bluish skies behind whitish clouds. The rains came last night. This helps to water my wildflower seeds. Thanks!

    End transmission 1227 PST.

  • Trying theme Twenty Twenty

    20250425-0004. Good midnight, chumps! Behold! I’ve come full circle. Now I’m trying theme Twenty Twenty, just like John Jr, I think; because I have NOT visited his site in a while and maybe liked a recent post of his.

    What I like about this OLD theme are the chunks! There are lots of customized chunks!

    1. Site Identity. Site Logo and Site Tagline. Retina Logo. Hide Footer Credit.
    2. Color. Background from f5efe0 to presidential stone cold E8E6E0. Header and Background color from 000000 to presidential dark blue 151A30. Primary Color is some sort of pinkish color.
    3. Theme Options. I like the “Show search in header”. There is a “Show author bio”. On archives pages, posts show Summary.
    4. Cover Template. I do NOT know what is the purpose. There is an Overlay Background Color of 10771a. I changed the color to default d61347.
    5. Merriweather for Headings font at Regular and Normal Size. Meriweather Sans for Base Font at Normal Size. I like curly fonts and this is the closest font.
    6. Background image is my OLD bamboo image.
    7. I’ve deleted Menu (old way) and Navigation (new way) to help speed up my site. Desktop Expanded Menu, Mobile Menu. This is the only logical place for my four featured pages/OLD sites! Plus, this is the only way to access the KJV audio bibles/chapters for Desktop and Mobile view. I liked how the Desktop Expanded Menu fly-out from the right to reveal my four pages/OLD sites!
    8. Desktop Horizontal Menu. Actually, I’m down to five static pages! So this menu is for my five static pages.
    9. Social Menu. This menu displays my Social Media accounts, which I have NOT really updated in a while.
    10. Footer Menu. This menu displays a descriptive link to subscribe to my WP reader feeds.
    11. I checked all the Content Options for Post Details and Featured Images, which I really do NOT use.
    12. Footer Widgets: Footer #1 for Blogroll. Footer #2 for Social Media. I know the Social Media is duplicated but I have nothing else to add here.
    13. The home pages settings are my Latest posts.
    14. Additional CSS. I have NOT yet used this feature. I used to tweak the CSS stylesheets before the Gutenberg blocks.
    15. Related Posts. Now this area is full of extra chunks. Come to think of it, Related Posts seem to function similarly to my WP Random Post Inside plug-in. I think there is a block for Related Posts but I’m NOT sure because I haven’t really used it!

    That’s all for now. My weblog site looks normal enough on Desktop web browser view and on the Jetpack app for iPhone/iOS. I especially like how the Search slides-down from the top, too! I think this theme is a keeper because I really can’t design and do NOT like the “plainness” of my versions; whereas theme Twenty Twenty has some curly separators, too.

    Unfortunately, the Jetpack Boost for Mobile view is lower at 91 (or 82 without the paid upgrade); while the Desktop view is holding steady at a perfect score of 100.

    End of transmission 0043 PST.

  • Still streamlining weblog site

    20250424-1842. Behold! I give up! I’ve been wanting to clutter my weblog with everything. But I was getting stressed-out because I’m NOT happy with the layout (again)!

    Firstly, I reduced the size of the “titles” from the presidential 6rem to XXL, (because I did NOT like how the longer titles were wrapping-around to the next line), colored the thick 11px borders with presidential maroon and set the background/text colors to presidential dark blue/stone cold! I liked the red, blue and white color palette!

    Then I played around with the left sidebar column/header area and tried a combination of blocks: Details of KJV chapters, Categories List, Search and Page List.

    I soon realized that the site-editor template view slowed-down drastically! So I had to remove the HUGE Details of KJV chapters, which included 66 hand-crafted Navigation menu items/links!

    After removing the tons of bible chapter links, the site-editor template view behaved much better! Then I stuck-back the Categories List block (which includes my 66 KJV audio bible “pages”, my OLD and new blogs and my four OLD sites, the Search block and the Page List blockj, which is down to six main pages!

    I had to force myself to “settle” for six main pages because the other static pages are just links to each other and are being handled by the “categories” posts!

    Had I NOT discovered the Categories List block and its versatility of “forcing” my categories to assume the function of my hand-crafted static pages, I would NOT have stream-lined my blog further!

    Now I should be happy again but maybe temporarily. I had a difficult but fun time tweaking the templates. I had created separate templates for Categories Archives and Tags Archives, but I soon realized that the Index template, along with the Archives Title block, picked up the functions of the the categories, tags, dates, and whatever else!

    But I had to “settle” on this one-for-all template and had NO choice but to set the Query Loop block to display the Excerpt block, which worked out VERY well. The Excerpt block functions almost like a Hero Content.

    Unfortunately, I wanted to view an entire bible page after the selection of a Category. But because I didn’t want my blog post exposed in its entirety due to the set-up of the Index template, I had to set the Index template to display only excerpt, which unfortunately forces me to clicki the title block in order to view the entire bible page! I may have to replace the Excerpt block with the Content block!

    So now my front home page displays the boring latest normal traditional posts, which is being driven by the Index template, which assumes the role as All Archives template. So now I’m down to five templates. Three are default: Index, Page and Single Post. Two are Error Page 404 and Search Results.

    I think my site will be more behaved and probably faster this way.

    I just regenerated the Critical CSS and now my Jetpack Boost scores are 94 and 100 for mobile and desktop, respectively.

    That’s all for now. End transmission 1922 PST. Edited 1929 PST.

  • Tried theme Retrospect templates

    20250423-2310. Welp, I really do NOT know what I-AM doing! I tried briefly theme Retrospect and applied ALL the theme’s templates to my Blank Canvas templates. Now I have the traditional two-column design! I got tired of scrolling up and down from the Desktop view.

    So in order to pull-off this design, I had to shorten my long Page List to just six main pages: ABOUT, CONTACT, FEATURES, FRONT-COVER, BLOG HOME and Projects.

    The Footer has been modified and still displays the two other main Static Pages (Privacy Policy and Terms of Use) which I couldn’t squish/shouldn’t place into the modified header/left sidebar column.

    For the 66 KJV audio bible Static Pages, these are still viewable AND in conjunction with the Categories List, which is a clone/mirror of these original uploaded Static Pages.

    For the 4 OLD sites/project Static Pages, these are accessible through the Projects page.

    This is how much of a nightmare my original/plain old Flynn’s Blogs has evolved to include God’s Words. Truly a freaking nightmare.

    Now I can’t decide if I want to keep the two-column design. But I have no choice because I can’t squish the Categories List block into the Header. Plus I got tired of the dark blue color and kept at least the presidential feel in the Footer.

    That’s all for now. End of transmission 2322 PST.

  • Combined Front Page template

    20250423-1334. Greetings, chump! The sun is shining. The temperature is in the low 60s.

    Earlier this morning, I ate my chicken wraps and SumoCitrus. Later on, I took more supplements. But I feel like I’m not getting enough nutrients; because I could feel the corners of my mouth acting up. I’m trying to stay hydrated as worked on our north-western facing area of maintenance.

    I watered the wildflower seeds located at the base of two of our Saratoga Laurel trees, meaning the corner lot/property owner pays for the city-approved trees with permits.

    Then I swept-up the ongoing small dried Sycamore tree leaves gathers on the street gutter, which is our responsibility, including the street curb, city planter strip and the city sidewalk.

    I then used my angled 56-inch wooden angled weed scraper/how for the smaller plant life forms cropping up in between the cracks and crevices of the our concrete and the city sidewalk.

    I did NOT wear my protective gardening mask. Lo and behold! I got allergies and choked and did a few half-sneeze. Then later on, I used my saline solution bottle to flush out my nasal passages. This worked because I saw bits of long hair but NO grayish trails of dirt or bloody or green or yellow boogers, meaning I’m good/clean.

    So I saw my cameras and the wind has been blowing since yesterday. Because I saw our OLD Callie lilies swaying strongly from the strong winds. I forgot to water the Callie lilies yesterday after seeing them swaying strongly form the strong winds and forced myself to water these flowers. Then I pulled some old drying non-blooming yellow oxalis ground covering flowers and some VERY small purplish flowers too.

    That’s all. It’s time for me to prepare lunch and listen to that Live show/Video guy. End of transmission 1344 PST.

  • Yeah higher mobile and desktop scores

    20250423-0044. Well, I guess the dark text/link element against the stone cold background element worked out VERY well, along with just displaying my three latest posts.

    The Jetpack Boost Mobile and Desktop scores are the highest ever at 99 (or 96 without the paid upgrade) and 100, respectively!

    Even with the Categories List in the Header being rather slow to load from the Site-Editor template views, the scores are impressive.

    I guess this system is NOT good enough for low-end user like moi. I can’t squeeze more stuff into the header without triggering a white right-hand column of death, for example.

    Only the “millionaires and billionaires” (á la Bernie Sanders) are afforded faster concierge services and other elitist amnesties.

    I should be outraged and just go back to the free-loader, err free-bee plans and count my blessings that paying for all these upgrades helped me to at least learn (finally) how to navigate (comfortably) this platform and create/design my still imperfect weblog after all these years!

    I’m still disappointed that I really do NOT know what I want or need in anything thus far.

    That’s all. End of transmission 0054 PST. Edited 0056 PST.