Mar 30, 2016

DARNED CHANGES IN FREE SOCIAL MEDIA!!!

Or how I lost the ability to see my news feed of the pages I follow with my Facebook page for my blog.

Imagine my surprise last night when I went on to my Facebook page for this blog and tried to get to the news feed portion to see what everyone else was up to.

The news feed shows the postings of the other pages I follow from the FamilyTreesMayContainNuts profile. Every time I tried I was redirected back to my personal Facebook page with the news feed from my friends and family.

Don’t get me wrong. They are nice people and I am interested in what they are doing too but I had already spent some time with them last night and was moving on.

The news feed for the blog page is mostly other blogs and some businesses. I am sure everyone will notice a drop in their visits due to this issue.

There is a solution I have found. Not one that I like but as always I will give it a go, as if I had any choice, and see what I can learn from it.

If this is happening to you here is what you need to do. Go to https://business.facebook.com/

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Create an account in a few easy steps. Going forward you will access your business Facebook account via this Business Manager, like it or not.

You will still go on to your personal Facebook and log in. Then in the little drop down menu you will see your Business manager and link to the page you want. It is just a little lower down on the menu than it used to be.

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Once you log in you are taken to your manager’s page. To go to your active page click on the name of it. This will open up to your Facebook page but only the page where you post!!!

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If you want to see the news feed of the people/pages you have liked and followed you will need to choose that from the sidebar.

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I understand the need for a better way to manage business pages in Facebook. This gives you the opportunity to add employees in with their own logins and to keep your business details private from them. You can limit what they can access. I am sure there are many other good features for business reporting and tracking.

What is not cool is once again a change has been made and as far as I know nobody told us. I see online that this has been going on for almost a year!!!! Switching people a little at a time. A very frustrating change. Just notify people of what changes you are making. They certainly must be able to put a message in everyone’s box.

Did this happen to any of you? How did you find out about it? Just by shock or did you read it somewhere beforehand? Have you followed my Facebook page yet? What? Get over to my sidebar and click that button!!

Mar 19, 2016

FAMILY MIGRATIONS

Throughout my life my family has lived mostly apart.

I started out in Ontario but have live in British Columbia for most of my life.

I have an older sister that stayed in Ontario when the rest of us moved West as she had a family of her own there.

Eventually she, and her family moved West too and it was wonderful. Then my other sister moved away for many years. We did not see her often. She was living up country and a good portion of the year the roads are not for the faint of heart.

As the years went by the eldest moved away to Vancouver Island as did her daughter, son-in-law and granddaughters. Not that far away but it was an expensive and trying ferry trek to get to the island. It was not a trip that was made often, in either direction.

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Boy were we cute!!!!

My nephews and their families stayed in the Lower Mainland but the nieces did not…for a while.

During most of this time we stayed in the same house in a Vancouver suburb. Thirty two years to be exact.

Then, as it is with families, children grow up and move out. The children and grandchildren made their way back to the city and suburbs of Vancouver. Babies were born. We moved further out from the city to an area none of us would have ever even considered 10 years ago and then it happened.

Gradually my sisters both came back. By mid April this year they will both be within a half hour drive from us as will most of the other family members. At this time in our lives we are all living close to our families again, the kids, the grandkids.

This is giving me great insight to researching family trees. Those moments when people seem to disappear from the family and how to understand the thought process to see which family members they may have followed somewhere. Then to follow the path of their children to see, perhaps, where they ended up.

It has also brought me great joy to have my family close together again. To be able to meet up for a quick dinner. To pop by for a visit to see their new digs.

Do you live close to your siblings? Is that a good thing? Family ties can bind or they can bind… take it any way you like.

(There is a brother in this family as well who has chosen, some years ago to no longer be a part of our family no matter how hard we have tried. He is living not far away although he doesn’t even know that we know that. Hey… I am a researcher after all.)

Mar 18, 2016

I LOVE FRIDAYS

I used to do a Friday post every week on Facebook because I couldn't wait for Friday to get here.

Now it is just for fun because I love my job!!! Fridays come up so fast. Still my favorite day of the week.

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Mar 12, 2016

THAR SHE BLOWS

I love a good storm. I love to feel the wind. I love the way the air smells. I love the wildness of it…. until it all goes bad. There are storms that are wild and fun and nobody gets hurt and then there are the kind we have been having in the area for the almost 2 years we have been living here. According to people who have lived in this area longer than we have this is something new.

The damage being dealt by these winds has been terrible. This last one resulted in the death of a woman when a tree fell through her roof. This was not close to where we live but it was the same storm. Just tragic.

Previous to this storm the last one tore off part of our roof and blew out some of the soffits. It carried a heavy wooden double tete-a-tete chair out from our lower patio right across the yard. Another foot and it would have tumbled down the embankment and on to the golf course. Good thing I saw it when I did. Our patio umbrella is tied up tightly in its cover and the base has 300 pounds of sand in it to keep it stable. I’m not sure I even trust that.

TETE A TETE

We sustained no damage this round. The winds were 96.4 kilometers per hour. For you non-metrics that is 60 miles per hour. The house shook. The trees in the distance swayed and the power went out. All our wires are underground but further down the line a tree fell and took out a pole that shut down the source.

Normally what would be just an inconvenience became a big problem for me because I work from home and completely on the computer. I could not work at all on Thursday.

As the day without power wore on I was texting my coworkers advising I would not be able to do my shifts. They had to cover for me. My phone was dying a slow death.

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Lighting is not an issue for me in these situations. I have enough candles to light up a church. I also have some battery operated ones that I used at Christmas that I used this time and they were great. I have lots of batteries on hand. No fear of open flames either but of course would keep the regular candles on hand too.

I am going to search out some good emergency lighting though. I know there are some nice flat lights that you plug in that will come on when the power goes out. Great safety wise if you have to get around the dark house to even find your candles. I think they also have a motion sensor for night time house wandering.

We have a gas stove so I can cook during blackouts. I just don’t want to open the fridge at all during this time.

I did learn a few things during this storm that I will share with you.

  • I think now I should be charging my phone every single night with no exceptions. Why take the chance that it will be at half power when you are not going to be able to charge it up. I also need to buy a car charger.
  • I learned that the wall switch that turns on a gas fireplace still works when the power is out and you can at least get some warmth from that. The fan will not work but the fireplace will. Wish I had known that earlier in the day since I was wrapped up in a big blanket trying to stay warm until my BB Guy got home. He just flipped the switch and bingo! Cave Man makes fire. 
  • I learned that the car battery charger in our garage is not just for cars and it has an outlet for charging your cell phones too. Again this little tidbit of information was given to me by my BB Guy after he got home.
  • I learned that when you make a desperation, we have no power, run for your morning coffee to Starbucks they will give you your coffees and bagels for free at 6:30am in their drive-through line if their debit machine isn’t working. I didn’t even have time to get out some cash. They just waved me off saying on the house. Don’t worry about it.
  • I learned that if I drag my laptop and a second monitor (I need 3 screens to work comfortably, two if I am roughing it) to my sister’s to work on the second day without power that the power at home will come back on within an hour of me being there. I also learned that my sister will send me home with a container of homemade Pea Soup for my lunch. Okay so this wasn’t all bad.

Mar 8, 2016

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY


Mar 7, 2016

HERE I AM…

Last time we spoke I had left my job and was not looking for anything new.

I was excited to have time for my blog again. Time to do fun, interesting things that I could then share with all of you.

That lasted 3 months. I was presented with a new job opportunity and it was too good not to pursue. I applied for and got the job.

I now do support for a software company. I work from home. It is wonderful to not have to drive anywhere to work. I get to travel a bit as well to company headquarters. 

People don’t fully understand that even though I work from home I don’t just sit around all day watching TV or scanning Facebook. I actually work a full 8 hour day and sometimes longer. I can’t carry on long phone conversations or have people over to visit.
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I do try to get dressed every morning though. I have only stayed in my pyjamas once.

But usually I can get laundry done. I can empty the dishwasher or get dinner started. I can water some plants. Little jobs that don’t take long. This goes a long way towards a stress free day. No coming home at the end of the day trying to squeeze in the daily chores.

This company is such a positive, upbeat company. I have never seen anything like it. They have a wonderful business model in place and have won awards for being one of the top companies to work for.

Another huge perk is no driving to work. No traffic. No traffic jams. No giant fuel bills every month. No wear and tear on my car.

Is there a down side? Not for me. I don’t mind the solitude. I like my own company (yes there is a little talking to myself going on), There is great camaraderie among the staff. We have phone contact and chat contact regularly.

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So that is what I have been doing.

I will have time and more importantly, energy, to blog again. I have just had a lot on the go over the past 3 months. Training has filled my brain and left little space for anything else but I am now getting back to my old self and will be more active on here for sure.

I have missed you all. Many of you I am in contact with via Facebook and that is always fun. I miss visiting your blogs. I miss your beautiful images and your funny stories.

Are you still blogging? Leave me a note so I can catch up with you.

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