I love Google

I'm not afraid to admit. I love Google. I love everything about Google. I wish my shorts were made out of Google.

The thing is I didn't love Blogger. So I switched to Wordpress. I'm thinkin' I'll start posting on Blogger again. It is new and improved and out of Beta.

I tried to upgrade my account to the new and improved version but it said I couldn't do it now, maybe later... probably because it has been inactive since October of last year.

So, I'll post a little more often and see when/if they let me switch.

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J

I still don't post much

But Boshear's Babble has been moved to Wordpress. Check it out at http://boshearsbabble.wordpress.com

My Granddaughter

My Daughter

Not so useless cubby

I love my Chevy Avalanche. About the only thing I don't like about it is that stupid useless cubby hole just to the left of the instrument cluster.

I've never wanted to modify my truck but I've always wanted a GPS.

I tried a software version of a GPS that ran on my laptop and that was a pain.

Recently I bought a Tom Tom Navigator 5 Bluetooth that has software that runs on my Treo 650. I used a vent mount bracket to mount it right next to that useless cubby I was telling you about.


I've been using the Tom Tom for a couple of weeks and I love it.

The only problem I had was the while it's running it uses a lot of the Treo's battery so I use the car adapter for my Treo.


I also use the car adapter for the GPS antenna and that uses both the available 12V outlets in my Avalanche and I normally used one of those for my iPod.



Today I went to Pep Boys and bought a Bell model 39062-1 Dual Outlet. It comes with insulation displacement connectors and a piece velcro. It is fused with an in-line 10 amp fuse.



I took out the useless cubby and drilled a hole in the back of it large enough for the fuseholder to pass through.


Now my cubby is not so useless.

A moral dilemma?

Hardly.

But I just read an email where my sister asked my daughter "Doesn't your dad have a blog too?"

I do/did have a blog at jerry.boshear.org. I haven't updated it in ages and last I checked it was down for some reason (tech support is looking into it, has been for a while).

But the dilemma is this: Since I started this blog a few weeks ago, I haven't told anyone about it. I haven't made it a secret by any means but I also haven't gone out of my way to tell anyone about it. I was hoping to just keep making entries until one of my family found it on their own.

But now someone has asked so at this point, if I don't tell them about it I will feel like I am keeping a secret from my family (I understand the irony, it's world wide web after all).

I am writing this entry to help me figure out what to do.

1. I could ignore the email since it wasn't really written to me, I was just cc'd on it.

2. I could reply to the email and say something obscure like "Google Boshear". Then I "technically" haven't kept it a secret.

3. I could reply to the family and include a link to this blog.

4. I could send a private email to my sister telling her about it and explaining that I'm only telling her because she is my favorite.

When faced with major decisions such as this, the outcome of which could possibly change civilation as we know it, I always apply the WWJD rule (What Would Jerry Do?)

I think number three. Even if they read it I'll probably stop writing before long and they will likely forget to check it after a few weeks (just like what happened with jerry.boshear.org)

As I said I was hoping one of my family members would find this blog on their own. I've tried to help them. I write enties while having coffee with my wife and I often read them to her. She probably thinks I'm posting in my other blog, but she hasn't asked. I post comments to my daughter's blog and we once discussed how you can click on the poster's name to see their blog... I thought she would find this place for sure after that conversation...

Hey wait! Maybe they have ALL found it and they are just being like me?!?!

What Assholes!

What if you wrote a blog...

and no one read it?

I think I'd be okay with that. While part of me wants the world to know my innermost thoughts, another part of me doesn't want to deal with being judged by strangers.

So far (since I haven't told anyone about this blog) it appears that no one is reading my babble so that's good. More than good in fact, because look at the freedom this gives me. I am free to assume that EVERYONE has read this and found it so profound that it has left them all speechless.

The reality is probably that a few Internet robots have read this and found it so boring they didn't even bother indexing it.

I believe my writings are only interesting to my family members, and most of them are probably just being nice.

At any rate if I ever think of anything else to say, I'll say it here first.

Oh! Maybe that's it

I'm not much of a blogger really. I enjoy reading the occasional blog but I struggle to write my own. This morning, like every morning when I decide to steal the time to write something, my mind went totally blank. Why does this happen every damn time?

I thought back about the previous entries I had made here and at my other blog and it dawned on me.

I'm doing it backwards.

I'm not supposed to wake up and think about what to write. I'm supposed to wake up and write about what I'm thinking. Or better what I have been thinking about lately. I figure if there is something in mind that I have thought about more than once it just might be worth writing about. Not so much because I think other people will want to read it but because I need to think it out, or maybe just get it out.

Lot's of bloggers are very good writer's. Many are witty and always seem to have something interesting to say. That ain't me, but then I don't plan to tell anyone about this blog anyway. I'm just writing it because... well, I'm not sure why I'm writing.

However, I know what I created this blog. My daughter created a blog here on blogspot and I left a few anonomous comments to her postings. She told me to get an account so her friends that read my comments wouldn't think I was some strange mean person, they would know I was her strange mean dad.

I signed up and apparently you can't have a login on blogspot without creating a blog. So here I am. I didn't plan to write anything here as you can tell by my first posting but what the heck. It's here, I'm here, let's just do what comes natural.

So, back to what I have been thinking about lately. I have been thinking about an article I read a few days ago entitled You are what you post".

You can go read it. I'll just sit here and continue thinking about it. I probably shouldn't say anymore anyway.

cya