A Day in the life of a Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo, Triond Nerd

(Written 14\10\2011 in Yorkshire)

A stream of consciousness. Live! Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo, Triond and Reality.

I am literally sitting on my sister’s settee watching “The Chase” on UK ITV. Typing this out on Microsoft Word. My sister’s cat Jenny is curled up next to me, on my left. All is quiet on the Triond Forum now, so I may as well type this.

Let’s have a new paragraph. Before long I will check my emails. Will follow my usual routine. Pop onto Facebook. Check out The Forum again. Then Twitter. Yahoo. Maybe YouTube. Triond, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo,  Facebook... Let’s do it. 

Minimise.

No connection! Damn! Control Panel. Network and Sharing Centre. Diagnose and Repair. Automatic Fix thingy. Done. Facebook: last thing was a chat about apostrophes with my elder nephew and my friend Dave Wagstaff.

Just checked Yahoo News: UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox has indeed resigned today. It is on ITV News now.

I have been typing very slowly. Mum is sitting in her armchair, to my left. The cat is still asleep but more stretched out. To my right the sun seems to have set, leaving a blaze of orange over the Aire Valley. Harmoniously counter-pointed  by orange street lights. Most of the sky is clothed in thin grey clouds tonight. We have beautiful sunsets here. Where I live on the East Coast, such views are blocked from me by a row of maisonettes.

The sky-line is now a ruddy orange. Blood-red to burgundy. I pop my teacup back to the kitchen. Take a peek out the front door: blue sky! No sign of Jupiter yet. (In the East for weeks now). “Emmerdale” will be on ITV in five minutes.

Labrador Max stands two thirds through the French Windows to my right, causing a great cold draught. Ah, out he goes... Beagle bitch “Promise” hates the cold and scoots away down the corridor.

Twitter Check: lots of snippets by one or two poets. TBH I just can’t get into Twitter. Too bitty for me. Hate the “length” restriction on each Tweet.

Onto second page on “Word”. Insert Page Numbers. Emmerdale is on.  355 words total and counting (including title and sundries). Yes, Life Twitters on.

Keep thinking I’ll do something, then forget. Oh my. Let’s check The Forum again. Minimise. Triond Dashboard. Quick PM (Personal Message) reply. Forum. Just one comment there since I myself posted two hours ago. Quick joke with Brad O’Neill. That’s it.

Later I might listen to pop songs on YouTube. My next task is to copy and paste this piece of typing to Triond. I suppose that sunset is the highlight. Haworth is two miles to the South of here. Bronte Country indeed. Perhaps I might be inspired again later. Who knows?

Triond, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo, Triond...

Paul Butters

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