When I logged in to WordPress earlier I received three messages about the “health” of my web site. Not only did I not understand what the hell it was talking about, but it didn’t even bother to offer any kind of solution. I guess we’re all on our own out here! Though maybe you can’t see a damn thing anyway because of my sickly site. I sure do miss the simple days of HTML.

I remember when I started blogging that web sites didn’t yet have images. This was back before objects could be embedded. Now everything’s just so unnecessarily complicated and requires more and more time to deal with. I just may be aging out of being online.

I was one of the first people in my high school to have a personal computer. It was a TI-99/4A. I worked all summer so I could afford the discounted price of around $150. I taught myself their version of BASIC. And I programmed the shit out of that little stupid machine—all the more so since I couldn’t afford the memory expansion: everything was deleted as soon as you turned it off.

Perhaps I should’ve learned my lesson back then when my rather expensive TI computer was discontinued and made obsolete within a couple of years.

Did anyone else have one of these computers? What did you use it for? I primarily used it to create basic animation and to play/compose music. It took at least one line of code for every single note. I remember what a revelation it was when I figured out that I could just let x=1000 (milliseconds) and therefore program a song proportionally instead of note by note: a whole note=4x, a half note=2x, an eighth note=.5x, etc. It sure made adjusting the tempo a lot easier. I eventually worked out a similar solution for pitch.

Come to think of it, I probably spend about the same amount of time on the computer these days, even though now I can open any one of several apps and play a C note within a matter of seconds. But I understand the technology less and less. I finally stopped learning coding/computer syntax some time after XML and CSS. Things online sure are a lot prettier, but I’m not convinced we’ve gained much else.

All this to say, I’m sorry if you can’t see my site. Apparently it’s sick, and not in a good way.