As why did that ‘Ol Pink Floyd song Learning to fly spring to mind? Or seeing the evaporating foam on a Sandy Beach of a wave dissipating as the tide pulls it back out into the Ocean?
If you’re a longtime
reader of the No Fenders site, or one of my remaining Diehard loyalists, which
I do appreciate. Then Y’all know that your Blind Scribe Tomaso’s been waylaid
by the myriad ‘O Confuzer’ issues stemming from being forced to migrate to
winDOUGHS 10 and Zoomtext 2020 Screen Reading software, which never did work
out correctly! Or at least what I’d become accustomed to the past seven years,
as what’s that ‘Ol saying ‘bout seven year itches?
:Ice is forming on the Tips of my wings Unheeded Warnings, I thought I’d
thought of Everything,
No Navigator to find my
way Home, Unladen, Empty and Turned to Stone…”
VIDEO: Pink Floyd’s Learning to Fly Song
sAlas, although I’m
quite aware there’s far more serious issues occurring in thou Universe, i.e.;
the Dreaded COVID 19 Pandemic, or Mrs. Oilpressure having just undergone Cancer
surgery…
For Mwah, as a Blind
Blogger, the transition to Ye latest ‘N greatest computing technology has
simply been a gory Nightmare! As I’m still upset over having not only lost my
trusted speech synthesizer voice “Kate,” whom Tacoma Bureau chief Mary Ellen
aptly nicknamed Lucy’, Uhm I’ve got NO Clue if that was for Lucy in the Sky
with Diamonds, (LSD) or as I’ve always thought Lucy from Peanuts Fame? Which
I’ve relied upon for the last 14 years before “she” was gone last fall.
Then I began using a
much worse female voice which I
immediately nicknamed “Zoey the Princess Warrior,” since this speech
synthesizer was named Zoey Compact.
Yet the Zoomtext 2020
Screen Reader software has simply been a
Piece ‘O Veritable Flaming Crap! And never worked 100% correctly during the
three months I actually used it during my one year subscription, since we all
got mightily interrupted by the Ultra Nasty Corona Virus! And hence my new
winDOUGHS 10 PC Tower sat atop my desk as an ultra expensive paperweight for
nine Freakin’ months!
Thus with Zoomtext 2020
not allowing me to do simple tasks like “Executing” Links via Hot Key command,
which I’ve done since 2006 when I began utilizing Zoomtext in order to stay
“connected” to the tethered world of computers, along with writing the No
Fenders Blog.
I’ve now upgraded to
Zoomtext Fusion 2021 and Matt, my Most Excellent Computer Technician, was only
able to fine a Male synthesizer voice whom I’m calling Ken for now. Which I cannot say I’m overly enamoured with, but
will have to suffice for now since I’ve got to totally re-learn my Screen
Reader’s capabilities, Sigh!
For instance, it
doesn’t even now tell me if I’m using a capital letter or lower case when
typing? Along with not even being able to pronounce the simple word the
correctly! Which to my tainted hearing sounds like thooh, which rhymes with
Y’all know it’s ah-comin’, Hya! Pooh, or the fact that sometimes it won’t read
the final word in a sentence, like the word Pooh!
And we won’t even discuss pronouncing racing
driver’s names, but I digress again…
Yet that said, with the
latest Screen Reader I was able to Fumble, Stumble and Most definitely Bumble
my way into the Blogger.com Blogging Interface platform, which I’ll forever now
refer simply to as Blloger!
Hmm? Was there just
some ‘lil ‘Ol Pigskin game played? And where are Yuhs Chris Berman, Eh?
I miraculously
re-entered my No Fenders Blog for the very first time since august 4, 2020
ironically on Thursday, February 4, 2021, exactly six Gory months to the day
since I’d last posted a blog story solo, Aye Karumba!
Even more amazing to
Mwah, was the fact that I could blindly Navigate the Blog platform and managed
to fix one of the more annoying typos I’d recently made? Although I’m
definitely Not a Fan of this new fangled Autocorrect spieling feature, which
seems to have a tendency of completely words for Mwah, like when I was just
trying to type completing you bugger! As Mike Rocky’ rockenfeller was a race
winner, since duh! He’s a racer, but I digress…
anyHoo’, this is
another Typical long winded No Fenders rant to let Y’all know it’ll be slow
goings for Mwah as I attempt returning to Blogging Solo once again, since it’s
definetly a brand new Ballgame for Mwah,
since the new 24-inch Wider is Better monitor AIN’T! Along with All of the
remaining technical issues, since this Puter’s simply made me even Slower!
Hence, I feel somewhat
like a toddler learning to walk again, along with having watched some form of Rush’s’
Behind the Lighted Stage via Youtube where Alex Lifeson sez’ we had to refocus
our energies and somewhat slow down, decide what we really wanted to focus upon
or we’d simply Burn Out, or something to that effect…
Which is exactly what I
feel like after effectively an unforeseen sabbatical from any major blogging
the last half year, and thus I’ll attempt only picking up thou pace slightly in
the future, because as ‘Ol Geddy once crooned “You can do a lot in a lifetime
if You Don’t Burn Out too Fast, First you Need Endurance to Go the Distance,
First You Need to Last!”
So, we’ll “S-E-E” if I
can “load” my very first Bloody Post in said six months now. As pretty Funny
how as I finish this during listening to The Beatles Hour on ye ‘lil transistor
Radio, the speaker’s blaring Out Help!
Not just anybody, Help! I Need Somebody, Help!
As Kudos to No Fenders
blogmeister Miguel for keeping the site alive for me as always…
Tomaso
As the partial Rush song lyrics are simply from memory,
and are from Marathon on the 1985 Power Windows album.
Partial Song lyrics from: Pink Floyd
Song: Learning to Fly
Album: A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Year:1987