You know how old people like change.
I think of my mental state as still competent if not a little slo mo. I grasp new content and directions and thoughts with much enthusiasm, even if my retainment level is questionable.
I am not happy with WordPress these days, though.
I didn’t create my blog using blocks. I don’t like blocks. I don’t want blocks.
I get it I get it — it probably is much easier for today’s younger bloggers. Like the whole world of computers and AI, move forward or live forever in the gray.
But I still don’t like blocks.
So I find myself duplicating old blogs and retitling and rewriting copy and images and rechecking the boxes so my blog matches my categories.
Yes, there is a way to get into classic mode, but it’s so convoluted it’s easier to cut and paste the old fashioned way.
What is wrong with me?
Is it that once we get older we get stuck at roadblocks and would rather make a new road rather than go through the alternate route?
Are we that stubborn as to give up learning something new just because we don’t really “get it”?
Or are we just stubborn old fools?
I hate the word OLD. Any form, any insinuation. The word instantly puts a connotation in others minds that we’re worn out, useless, and out of date with the world.
Yet I find myself putting my toes in that pool all the time.
I hate not being able to learn as quickly and thoroughly as I used to. And I hate letting myself get worked up over something that I’ve already found an alternate for.
My husband says I always make things harder on myself… that I do everything the LONG way.
He may be right. After all, I do love the song “Take the Long Way Home” by Supertramp …..
Does it feel that your life’s become a catastrophe?
Oh, it has to be
For you to grow, boy
When you look through the years and see what you could have been
Oh, what you might have been
If you would have more time
So, when the day comes to settle down,
Who’s to blame if you’re not around?
You took the long way home
You took the long way home….
Humoring the Goddess 
We are not old dear Claudia, nowadays you are old when you are in your 90 ties !! It is not difficult to change the appearance of your blog, just go to “appearance” and choose a new “Theme”, there are so many to choose from, if I can do it you can do it !
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I’m hanging around with you FOREVER!!
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I think I might be stuck in classic editor, because I don’t think my WP “new post” page has changed in years. I don’t know what blocks looks like. Maybe I’m lucky.
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WooHoo! As they say, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth! Create away!
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I fell into an I HATE WP BLOCKS mode when they launched. I dunno how, but I now am fine with my site’s defaults in the phone app and simoly ignore all the frivolous options (which rarely yield the results that I want). Paragraph, Image, and an occasional List or Gallery… that’s sufficient!!
I usually adapt quickly to change but I feel SUPER old every time I try to Tap To Pay. The sensor never seems to be where I expect, and I end up looking & feeling stupid!
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Ha! You are NEVER stupid — I tend to look at it as too-smart-and-classy-and-busy-to-bother-with-new-things state of being!
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Ohhh, yeahhh… I can be really dense at times. I usually laugh about it, but the frequency of those tap-chip space outs really bugs me! Now, I say something about them making me feel old. Sometimes the cashiers will take the card and do it for me, pitying the old woman!
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Sometimes I look like a deer in the headlights at a tap reader….
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I prev blogged about seeing someone use Palm Pay (hand scan) at Whole Foods. I prefer looking stupid with a card – Amazon doesn’t need to be storing my palm print (unless they add free psychic readings) 🤪
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Ha! I love it! Eww.. think of all the palms the sweated on that machine before you got to it!
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To their credit, you don’t touch the scanner, just hover over it. Still waaay to 1984 for me!!
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I think you, and many of us, like the “best” way, the way that makes sense. Just because something is new doesn’t mean it’s better. I still don’t like the way they took away full pictures and make them tiny. Has nothing to do with age or change. It must be that they have to change things or they would be out of work. Things can’t run perfectly or they wouldn’t be needed, so they make everything more difficult and wait until we are forced to use it and then they change something again. Blah. It used to be better in so many ways.
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You make me feel younger — not older! I do believe if it’s not broke don’t fix it, but hey — I’m just a creative sprite, not an internet tech….
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I am not a block-head…. and I respect those who ARE! Super Tramp makes it work for me too.
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Let’s take the long way home together!
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I still use Classic Editor and unless it has changed since yesterday, it’s very easy to open and use. I hate the blocks
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Good for you! My WP doesn’t directly go to or offer classic. I have no idea why. But I’m not leaving here so I’ll put up with a little dancing to get to where I’m going!
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