Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

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  • Redacting my poltergeist “imaginary” incident

    20221031-2224. During beginning of supper tonight, I asked my elderly father why our brown leather recliner was rocking back and forth yesterday. He said that after his daily workout, he had to sit down to fold up his “banig” or exercising matt made in the Philippines and outta plastic woven nicely! He said that he felt something behind the recliner and saw that it was mommy’s walking rollator! He then placed the rollator back in place, directly behind the recliner!

    So there y’all have it! See? This is NOT necessarily fake news or misinformation. This is someone’s wild (and crazy guy’s) imagination that got carried away because she was bitching up a storm over a concern of using baking soda in cooking recipes.

    My elderly father is a no-nonsense character while I tend to exaggerate facts because I too wish to be heard and believed despite keeping things real and using my own observation using whatever five existing senses I have left.

    But I failed to employ the “scientific method” after observing the recliner moving on its own when instead of standing and staring in the kitchen, I could have simply walked over to the location and observe further my theory: is that inanimate object moving on its own or is it my own dad?

    See? That’s why we still need “investigative journalists” to walk up and step up to the plate, observe without subjective interpretations like what I’ve done with the alleged ghost hauntings in our old home, and report back the findings without speculations or other prejudices whatsoever.

    Do y’all hear what I’m saying? Y’all can-NOT rely on bloggers or ANY sources because like any stooge willing to do anything for money, food, gas and electricity – can make up far-fetched stories that are comedic, tragic, and downright doom and gloom scary!

    Keep stuff real, Flynn! I kept repeating to my elderly father that I must realize that there are perfectly good explanations to everything, naturally-speaking and NOT super-naturally and the like!

    That’s all. FlynnsPaws.

  • Always wanted that one-column Twitter look

    20221031-2207. Lo and behold! With the Gutenberg blocks, I built and finalized a rather eerily similar layout modeled after the Twitter.

    When blogging over the many slong years, I always wanted that “one-column” look and feel like Twitter. But my blogging mobile app still has too much clutter compared to when I needed to Twit quickly, like immediately after our recent earthquake, which the new fearless leader EM posted something to the effect that NYT can change history, like what happened to USGS changing the source of our recent earthquake from Seven Trees to Alum Rock, AFTER I whined and complained online to this fact. See? I’m watching y’all. Hah!

    I have three columns, too: Left with icons linking to social media stuff; Middle with Home as post_title, followed by your favorite post_author, and then the Blog Posts block showing only the three most recent or latest posts along with the author, avatar and date; and Right with search bar, latest WordPress stuff, and blogroll links to “specially-gifted” folks who know stuff, too.

    Yeah, I’m happy with the Dark theme and three-columns. I had to stick the footer way on the bottom, which (like I said) is supposed to be modeled after the sos.ca.gov official website.

    I wanted a Jump to Top button (which is similar to Page Jump that I used for the 66 long-read KJV books). So I created my own “arrow up” button image on my Photoshop 2023, but realized that the jumping feature from the sos.ca.gov official website is scripted stuff that “floats” on the page and disappears upon completion! That’s too much for my big brain but I’m thinking how to “fast scroll” through these LONG-READ pages! There’s gotta be a way! Hmm.

    That’s all. FlynnsPaws.

  • Touching a leg and trying to connect with a spider

    20221031-1905. So yesterday, I eyed a HUGE spider – a daddy long leg spider, which is really a miniature scorpion and NOT an arachnid! It was minding its own business clinging to a bathroom wall and directly underneath the roll of toilet paper holder.

    I was busy using cleaning the bathroom floor and half-heartedly using a regular cotton wiping cloth when after I was done clean, I decided to make contact with the little critter.

    So I reached out my right hand and slowly touched one of its legs with my right index finger. Lo and behold, that spider jumps in a startled response and quickly ran off towards me on the floor – seeking shelter away from the scary giant monster that is me.

    I saw that it found a corner near the door and I once again tried to initiate contact with the little one by touching one of its legs several times. It flinched in surprise each time and I definitely saw one instance that the little critter was looking up at me and/or my finger.

    I made eye contact with it. But no sooner than later, it did scuttle off back along the floor and towards its original location and in yet another corner of the bathroom. I left it alone so it could calm down and relax.

    When I returned a few moments later, I could NOT locate it. But while sitting down on the toilet to do my business, I saw that it was clinging to the bottom of the door upside down! I didn’t bother it again and later on it was gone.

    So I’m NOT afraid of insects or spiders. I just do NOT wanna imagine the hoards of THEY/THEM attacking all at once like some comic book scene. My two other HUGE resident daddy long legs spiders are now gone and probably from eating bugs that passed through my line of chemtrails along the perimeter of the backyard portions and side alleyway.

    That’s all. FlynnsPaws.

  • Update on black bumblebee rescue mission

    20221031-1857. Remember in a recent blog a few days ago about rescuing an black bumblebee that was found upside-down on the kitchen counter sink near the opened kitchen window?

    Well, being a traditionalist, I scooped it up in a regular plastic cup and flat piece of stiff paper mailer and heard it buzz its little wings inside the cup as I hurriedly opened the back sliding door and iron grill door and went out back to place the little critter upon the dried-up patches of brown lawn.

    Then of course during my flushing out and refilling in the birdbath with water, I saw that the black bumblebee was upside down in the cement gutter the following day.

    By my own hands, I tend to yeet things; so I guess I’m NOT supposed to be in care of living critters as I do NOT have the patience and lack the understanding of care until the VERY end. My bad. I’m sad.

    But that’s life and something I’m becoming more desensitized or numb to the process of death and dying and of pain and suffering. Nothing seems to bother me anymore. No longer am I bothered by the plight of others – NOT so much my own self-preservation but rather taking a neutral stance as observing nature in its perfection like its CREATOR(s).

    That’s all. FlynnsPaws.

  • Possible poltergeist rocking barcalounger

    20221031-1741. Yesterday, I saw our brown leather barcalounger adjustable rocking chair that nobody uses rock violently back and forth! Behind this rocker is mommy’s maroon-colored, four-wheeled rollator walker, which has NOT been used since 2018.

    I noticed this paranormal event after my elderly father was using the living room for exercising upon his usual plastic weaved “banig” or rollable matt. I did NOT observe further if it was him or something else because I was busy in the kitchen bad mouthing why he was NOT comfortable with baking soda in his chicken that I baked in the oven for 375 F for 20 minutes.

    This inspiration was an incoming thought AFTER I had cleaned and de-veined the the boneless chicken thighs and legs. I was watching a YouTube video a few days earlier about cooking chicken. I barely recall seeing the Oriental female speaking the words “baking soda” and pour the measured portion of baking soda. Those words stuck on my mind as she said something about whatever – I forgot.

    After the incident screaming my head off at the offense that my elderly father doubted baking soda being used in recipes/cooking food, that’s when I saw the violently rocking chair. He had completed his usual daily exercise out back for 20 minutes and asked to see the label of the Arm and Hammer baking soda container, I fumed my mouth, grabbed two plastic bags containing normal bread made outta wheat, stomped to the living room where he was exercising, proceeded to read the ingredient label of strange chemicals used in making bread and stormed back outta there.

    I saw that his inner demon surfaced as his hand would touch the cartilage of one ear as a sign of refusing to hear the truth. See? Voila! I won’t stop using my potty mouth and ingrained meanness of his “Bayan” or folks known in his birth town to be number one thugs of knife-wielding security forces and the like.

    Yup. So I could tell a presence was still hating our old home for over 40 years. I keep praying and rebuking but NOTHING seems to work as these demons or wandering spirits or whatever won’t stop. I think my prayers are ineffective as prayers don’t seem to work against these species. I do NOT know. That’s why I’m so VERY pissed off and did NOT react in horror or surprise when that object moved on its own.

    A few minutes later or hours later whenever I returned back to the kitchen or general area where the possessed object is located, I noticed mommy’s old walking rollator was ajar! The object was tucked directly behind the barcalounger because I didn’t have space to put it. Lo and behold the object moved, say, one body distance in reverse!

    So I was NOT in shock and horror and did NOT bother taking a photograph. I had nine of DB’s “magic rocks” with nano-magnets ATOP the seat of that walking rollator. So I do NOT know if I should get rid of those too as some spirits could highjack said objects if the artistic creator prayed wrong or hexed it during manufacturing. But the DB stuff should have some blessings from the Holy Spirit in it.

    So I-AM baffled why such an incident of my demonically hickjacked elderly father casting doubt upon my cooking per a YouTube video created by an Oriental female and irritating me as a result and of the two possessed chairs would make my day. I’m really NOT interested in these paranormal stuff anymore as I’m sick and tired of trying to pray away something I know NOTHING about!

    This stuff of the thinning of the spiritual veil has probably set the tone for today’s Happy Monday and other freaks coming out at night to trick humanz in exchange for sugary treats. Such utter nonsense are these secular activities that in our cultural heritage have adopted but did NOT exist one to two generations ago. Huh.

    That’s all. FlynnsPaws.

  • Modeled my front home landing page after Twitter

    20221030-1120. Like Twitter, I’ve finished my “Angels” site to includ three columns: Left for top navigation menu; Middle for post_title, post_author, post_content (with avatars and dates); and Right for search bar, WordPress news and blogs, a list of our favorite daily messengers, and my Footer (which must include the privacy policy especially the State of Commie Fornication (also known as California).

    I will probably build and model my front, home, landing page for my “Paws” site and my KingJamesBibleVerses site. I just have a novel idea to add my sites underneath my top navigation menu. Wow.

    That’s all. FlynnsPaws.

  • Editing my front home landing page

    20221029-2306. When “testing” which is really editing my site, I notice stuff.

    For example, my front home landing page contains the Cover image of my Site Logo which was created and paid on Fiverr.com and then edited on my Photoshop 2022 by vertically flipping the left facing birdie to face right and then inserting my favorite Adobe Font “Bradley Hand” to spell out my domain name.

    So I selected the Cover block by clicking into the Cover block and then hovering over the block “Toolbar” to toggle off the Full Height, which expanded the scale of the Cover image to far out, and cutting off my domain name on both side (left and right) while previewing my site in Mobile mode.

    See? Voila! That’s why I keep coming back to my site and navigate from my left Dashboard panel > Appearance > Editor (which is really the Guetenberg site-editor.php for us wp-admin users). I’m having too much fun, like I said, window dressing stuff over the meat-and-potatoes of the Content.

    That’s all. FlynnsPaws.

  • Super fast empty trash

    20221029-2248. So the staff posted Drafts on my site, which is fine because there’s nothing to hide and it’s about testing stuff to ensure customers paying ANNUALLY (or monthly whichever the case may be) into upgrade PRO plans are retained to suffer blogging fever – FOREVER! Bruhaha!

    So some of these “test” posts were dated 12:22 pm, 12:33 pm, starting on/about 10:44 pm. See? Symbolism. THEY/THEM Live to give us chaos, then the Karens come out screaming their heads off, and then stuff is tweaked behind the scenes. There was one Page Jump test page dated on/about 10:38 am, too.

    Oh, and for whatever strange reason, the Empty Trash feature Permanently Deleted over 1,000 of these “test” post drafts within seconds! When I was trying to clean up my project WTF did y’all toggle down my activities over the many months since signing up for this PRO plan, huh?

    So in the chatting session with a staff two days ago, I mentioned what’s the point of signing up for these upgrades if we can’t use most of the features? So there! THEY/THEM fixed the VERY slow speed of Empty Trash that took many hours but now within seconds!

    Understandably so, I mentioned that I am NOT a professional and do NOT know everything. But the few pointers or tips and other snickering behind the scenes made my day. I was having fun giving THEY/THEM something to do, basically because of the Happiness part of being, well, a staff. Get it? My bad!

    That’s all. Thanks. FlynnsPaws.

  • Having fun with site-editor and editing templates

    20221029-2135. Was it yesterday when I chatted with a staff who shared an easier way to change the Default template to whatever?

    Yeah well, in the past few minutes (that was after supper, which was after taking a few more hours fuming over what to do next), I’ve learned how to edit the six main templates that affected my KJV biblical project:

    • Single – The default template for displaying any single post or attachment.
    • Page – Displays a single page.
    • Header and Footer only
    • Footer only
    • Header
    • Footer

    The rest can be left as-is or default or alone. This site is using the Blockbase theme by team Automattic.

    For my Footer template, I modeled that after the sos.ca.gov website. Looks familiar? I’ve mirrored that footer for all my sites: “Angels”, “Paws”, and “Verses”.

    These sites include the paragraph containing my favorite King James Bible random verse generator button that; my customized navigator menu of static pages; and the paragraph of my domain.

    For my Header template, I’ve opted to remove the Site Title and Site Tagline and left the Site Icon that’s rounded and the navigator menu for my two social icons: Twitter and YouTube.

    For my Single post, I tweaked the Post Title and added the Previous Post and Next Post blocks, which is similar to Pagination block. Then I centered the Comments Pagination block.

    For my Page template, I used same Header and Footer blocks. I edited and placed the Post Title below the random verses so readers, mostly moi, would focus on the Word of God.

    For the Header and Footer Only and Footer Only templates, I had to make sure the Featured Image is inside a Group. The Header and Footer Only template is set for my 66 static “Book” pages. The Footer Only template is my front, home, landing page, which I modified but will edit again because the mobile preview looks squashed.

    So that the Featured Image does NOT overwhelm the page, I set the Width to None and switched on the toggle for the Layout > Inner blocks use content width feature.

    I think that’s all. FlynnsPaws.

  • 503 Service Unavailable

    20221029-1242. Yeah so whatever is happening can’t be good! I tried to view my wp-admin index.php self-hosted site and I received the following error message:

    Service Unavailable

    The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

    Okay, now it works.

    That’s all. FlynnsPaws.

  • Allow site to use java scripts

    20221029-1230. So now I’m using the Opera web browser to blog and just found out that this blogging platform uses java scripts! So I had change the Opera settings from “Don’t allow sites to use Javascript” to “Sites can use Javascript”.

    If we want real security then these sites should NOT force users AND visitors to accept THEIR terms! So what’s the point of “browsing the web” if we keep bowing down to big tech and whatever THEY/THEM want and have to offer the rest of us?

    That’s all. FlynnsPaws.

  • Supported browsers except BRAVE

    20221029-1217. Per online documentation found on https///wordpress.com/support/browser-issues/#supported-browsers via an email from the staff, I learned that my blogging platform does NOT support the Brave browser. What? The world-renowned blogging platform does NOT support this stuff?

    So I shared the page containing the “Link to Your HTML Anchor” and the associated page containing the “HTML Anchor” itself and sent my email.

    So I just installed the Opera browser and will use that one for blogging to avoid confusion as I already have the other browsers installs: Edge, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox.

    That’s all. FlynnsPaws.