"I Am Dumb" And Some "Blog Changes"

Okay!

I admit it. I am dumb. I am clever. But I am also dumb.

Even clever people (like me) have many moments where they appear slow, confused or simply dumb.

I remember, when I used to work for a supermarket, that I was once asked if I would like to try Brussel's Pate. I thought, "Yeah, sure!"

I looked at it, wasn't too sure, but was brave and put a blob in my mouth.

I immediately started to dry wretch. The girl at the deli counter was mortified, and was saying over and over, "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

As I scraped it off my tongue, I told her it tasted like meat. She replied that it was meat.

I thought, for some reason, that Brussel's Pate was, and this is true, smashed up brussel sprouts. I had no reason to think otherwise.

Did you ever see the pre-packed salad in shops, called "Alfresco"?

Well, one morning I came downstairs, and couldn't see the dogs. I asked Sam where they were. He replied he had given them their breakfast Alfresco. So of course, my natural reaction was to ask why he thought giving dogs salad with their breakfast was a good idea.

He had to slowly explain to me that Alfresco actually meant eating outside.

This isn't surprising when you are aware that I was raised by a woman who also fails to think things through properly. For example, there was, when I was a young boy, a blackout.

I remember my mum and dad speaking thus -

Dad - Oh, that's the power out.

Mum - A blackout?

Dad - Yes! Just what we could do without.

Mum - Oh, well, you will just have to put up with it. We will just have to watch the TV in the dark.

There were a few moments, quite a few, before my dad had to explain why, when there was a blackout, they couldn't watch TV, at all.

But people in general are not very bright at times. Today we went out for a lovely meal in (yeah, you guessed it!) China Town.

Our meal was interrupted for a moment as three women almost broke into an out and out fight. Over what? Over who was paying the bill!

Two women actually had the third woman pinned to a chair at one point.

Oh my!

So anyway, today I feel dumb. I can't work with HTML. This is one example of a programming language, the simplest one probably, and I can't do it. I just can't do it.

Sure, I can look at code, copy and paste it, play around with what works and what looks good.

But I can't write good code.

I thought I could maybe do a short course on programming, but that seems like over-kill for the small changes I want to make to my blog.

Blogger is pretty good though. There are quite a few widgets and "hacks" available for blogger blogs that help enhance people's writing. These widgets are easy to install and to tweak. But sometimes I want to do more.

Wordpress seems to be more popular from what I have read in reviews online. It seems to have more potential for "tweaking" and enhancing blogs through plug-ins and snippets of code here and there.

For my requirements, I would say Blogger and Wordpress are pretty evenly matched. If you are drawn to Wordpress, though, I would advise you spend some time getting to know what HTML and Javascript looks like and how to apply such code to your blog template and infrastructure.

So yes, you may have noticed a few changes to my blog lately. I have placed some pictures of myself, my partner, our dogs back in Scotland and our cats here in Oz, at the top of the blog.

I have also recently been dabbling with Blogger's "pages" extension. There is a photo page of myself and Sam, and a page for contact information. I am also working on a disclaimer page as well. I hope to have that up soon. Links to these pages are placed on the side-bar, near the top.

Today I also added a "visitor counter" at the bottom of the blog. This is more for fun than anything else, and I am sure people reading my blog would like to know how many others visit.

I won't make many more changes. I would just like to make some improvements where I can.

If anyone reading this has any good ideas for improving my blog, or if you want to share what you have added and tweaked on your own blog, then leave a comment.

Thank you.

It would be nice hear your ideas.