A New Mission Statement

    

I've been treating this blog very simply; picking ephemera from the day's eBay listings, and sharing here. Usually with some input from Chat GPT, because Chat lets me have a little fun with the wording of the ads. With Chat, I’ve learned it’s not just the question you ask, but how you ask your question. You can ‘sculpt’ the answer, and the style of the answer, by the asking. Humor, drama, ad-speak, double-speak, a bit of Shakespeare...

But it occurred to me that this has never been how I write blogs. I've had several, none really profitable... but all of them were fun to write and expressed my personality.

On a separate line of thought, I wrote with the idea of using Adsense on the blog to supplement our income. When it felt ready, I applied to Adsense, and they told me the content was thin. Fair enough, I was trying to write a specific volume, without enough to say.

At the same time, the internet privacy situation has been getting scarier and scarier with tons of new laws from multiple countries, and from nearly 20 states so far with more on the way. It’s impossible to follow guidelines… whose? Which state? Which country? And none of them are straightforward. And it’s all too overwhelming.

So I’m going to post things when I feel like, about whatever feels pertinent to the theme. No Adsense, no Affiliate links. You can visit mine and Monique’s eBay stores if you want, or don’t. Doesn’t matter. The link’s there because I talk about eBay, and what I do on eBay. It makes sense that you might want to see what I’m talking about. After all, the whole idea of selling pages cut out of extremely old magazines is kind of hard to wrap your head around if you’ve never heard of it before.

I want writing this blog to be fun again. Writing for the pleasure of sharing ideas. Hopefully someone will enjoy it besides me, but if not, so be it.
With this in mind, I do have a rather esoteric change of subject (or maybe a very deep drill on the same subject) on my mind, something that nobody else seems to have noticed but has driven me mad for nearly a year. Google’s Gemini encouraged me to write about it, and I will. Next post.