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Continue reading →: WordPress story experiment + running, then walking 🚶♂️Testing WordPress’ story post functionality. Not sure that I like it because it doesn’t appear to differentiate between a story post and a blog post. This appears to be a blog post with a ‘story’ inside of it. Alas, the meaning behind this post … After the 10k to start…
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Continue reading →: My cryptocurrency fortune is fading fastA couple months ago I bought $100 of Bitcoin and Ethereum, $50 each. The plan was to hold onto it and see how much it could grow. Excitement befell me as my $100 turned into $118. A great investment, I thought! Fast-forward to mid-June and the crypto winter. My $100…
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Continue reading →: Song day Saturday: “Everyday Kind Of Love,” by Kyle ParkIn Oklahoma, they call it Red Dirt. In Texas, it’s Texas Country. For those of us over 50, it’s what used to be plain-ol’ good country music. Kyle Park is a singer-songwriter out of Austin. He got married in 2019 just like I did, and his song “Everyday Kind Of…
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Continue reading →: ‘Mr. Saturday Night’ performance from Billy Crystal a highlight of ‘22 Tony AwardsI’d never watched an entire Tony Awards broadcast until Sunday. But I knew my stepdaughter was musical crazy, so I recorded them. We listen to the SiriusXM “On Broadway” channel on the way to theatre camp each morning, and I’m pretty well versed on what shows are out there. But…
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Continue reading →: Amateur Gardener: Deluge Threatens To Drown My PetuniasSeveral weeks ago I dug up a rose bush and planted a mess of petunias in the flower bed. It was a ton of work, and it jacked up my body for a couple days. At the same time, I also planted some marigolds. In the three weeks since planting,…
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Continue reading →: Now that I have 1,000 followers on TikTok, what should my ‘go live’ strategy be?TikTok likes me. It really likes me. Or maybe I should say that my long, digital nightmare is over. I can finally go live on my TikTok channel (@ryanisthatdude) because I have 1,000+ followers. That monumental milestone happened this morning, and as of 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, I was at 1,095…
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Continue reading →: It appears TikTok wants me to be a baseball content creatorThere are worse fates, I suppose. It could have been an original polka song, a rant about something inappropriate. It could have been a video of me dancing. That would have been, uh, disconcerting. Based on the success of a couple recent videos on my @ryanisthatdude channel, TikTok apparently is…
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Continue reading →: Tales from Atlanta: what the Braves got rightScattershooting while wondering if anybody remembers the great Blackie Sherrod… He was a sports icon in Dallas, but I always liked his column style. I’m scattershooting about my trip to Atlanta this week. The purpose was a work conference with the Local News Consortium, a gathering of journalists and advertisers…
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Continue reading →: Photos: highlights from a trip to Truist ParkThanks to a work conference at the Ritz Carlton in Atlanta, I got to add a Major League Baseball stadium to the history books and catch a Braves game with a colleague to boot. The stadiums I’d seen a game in before Tuesday are: Toronto Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles, Kansas…
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Continue reading →: Instagram reach tip applies to small creators, too!A friend and former colleague sent me a DM on Instagram to tell me that sharing TikToks to Instagram were going to result in reduced reach, something I’d heard many times before. But danged if I didn’t give it any credence. “I don’t get any reach anyway,” I said. Or…
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