Saturday, August 26, 2023

Heat Dome — A Permanent Fixture?

 It has been very hot here in Texas for a very long time.  The new catchphrase is “heat dome”.  I don’t care what they call it, it needs to go away.  The temperatures have been so high and our power grid keeps threatening to fail and it is just time for fall.  I keep seeing photos of all the lovely fall decor and scenery and here it just looks like everything is scorched.  I can’t even talk about the wildfire threat.

I have spent the last couple of days dealing with a facebook debacle.  If I didn’t use fb for some social interaction to alleviate the isolation that I live in, I wouldn’t have it.  But, long story short and all the gory details put to rest, my account was hijacked.  Now I can’t even delete it.  I am very upset over it and spent most of the day yesterday starting a new account.  I honestly have reservations about starting it again but I will see how this goes.  FB is my main means of socializing and since it looks like we are going to looking at more covid situations with possible some social distancing and who know, another lockdown I hate to not have it but it definitely isn’t worth the aggravation I went through and am still going through knowing I can’t control the account anymore. I actually feel very violated.

So that is what I have been up to.  School is back in session so I am back on pick up duty which is awful in the heat but hopefully soon it will change.  I have been working on an anxiety journal to try to help my anxiety and it does help, however, after all the anxiety over the fb account I wonder if fb isn’t part of my anxiety!  Maybe too much interaction?  Who knows — I don’t think all this technology is healthy — I loved it t first but now, maybe not so much.

So, anyway, just checking in, will be back soon.

4 comments:

Pom Pom said...

Hi BB! That happened to a friend of mine. I'll ask her how she fixed it.
Oh, I feel for you living in the midst of that intense heat. Argh! I don't feel fall-ish yet, either.

Granny Marigold said...

I'm sorry your FB account got hacked. I can imagine how stressful that would be.
School starts earlier in the US I think. Here it doesn't start until after the Labour Day weekend ( which is coming up). Take care. Stay cool ( if possible). GM

Boyett-Brinkley said...

Pom Pom — I had two people helping me and one said to start over and the other (my son) said keep trying but I was getting very upset so I just started over which hasn’t been fun either. Now I can’t even delete the other account. I think it was malicious meanness from somebody who kept visiting a group I owned and I kept blocking them. No more groups for me!

Boyett-Brinkley said...

Granny — yes, school starts way to early now. When we were in school it started the first Monday after Labor Day and we all dressed in our nice little fall dresses and it was lovely — not it is just a hot mess, literally!

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