I like lentils...

...but today I wonder.

Fixing some breakfast of toast, poached eggs and chocolate milk.  While getting the chocolate mix out I had to move a jar of lentils that was in front of it.  Sure enough the lid wasn't on very tight and off it came.  The jar fell to the floor and bounced sending the contents in all directions.  The floor had a nice impression of my foot outlined in lentils as I stepped back to survey my handy work.

So what is one to do when you start out the day this way.  Laugh it off and go finish your breakfast.  That would give me a chance to cool down and have my eggs while they were still warm.

Some days are just like that.  Some days I am a cluts and there is little I can do about it.  I have found that it is much better to just laugh it off and move on rather than getting all upset and blowing a casket.  If I get upset and well very likely get more of the same but if I laugh it off I have a better chance of not having a string of continual episodes that fill the day one after another.  Also, my bad day doesn't have to become someone else's bad day.

So breakfast finished, family comes down and notices the miss.  "What happened?" followed by "Don't worry I will clean it up."  You know what, they let me.

Maybe the pantry needed a little cleaning today.  Maybe I needed to pause and reflect the nature of a lentil.  Maybe I just needed a topic for my blog.  Either way it took a little time and effort but was really no big deal.  Most of these types of things are really no big deal.  And that is how we should treat them.

This is Ed Nef with a view from the Farrwest.

So Tsu me

Well I did it.  I signed up for a new social network and so far so good.  You might have heard of tsu.co as the alternate Facebook where you can get a cut of the advertising revenue for producing content rather than letting the Zuckerberg boys have all the fun.  At least that is the idea and I am game for that.

Tsu takes a cut of 10% which isn't much these days and then they pay the content producer half the remaining amount with the other half going to the content producers sponsors (kind of like the upline and downline of multi level marketing).

That means you have to have a sponsor or referral to get in.  It is o.k. because you know me and I will be sure to hook you up if you want in.  My link is https://www.tsu.co/EdHWW.  If you know Facebook then you already know Tsu.  Similar if not simpler.  Where I felt lost with Facebook, Tsu comes a bit more intuitively.  I like that in a web site.

It is new and developing and I am sure there are some that think it wont last but I don't care.  It is a work in process.  If this takes off, and it looks like it may, Facebook has something that it hasn't had to worry about up to this point; competition.  Worried?  Probably not but they better not rest on their laurels and start taking care of their core customers because there now is another place to play.

Here is that invite once again.

https://www.tsu.co/EdHWW

It is kind of exciting to be on the leading edge of something.  If it doesn't work fine, but if it does just Tsu me.

This is Ed Nef with a view from the Farrwest.

Overcoming internet fear

I admit that I am extremely cautious when it comes to things internet.  There are trust issues and rightfully so.  There are a lot of bad characters out there and they don't always come with the best of intentions on your behalf.  It pays to be cautious.  But am I being too cautious.

I have been hesitant to enter the whole social world, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, whatever etc.  Do I really want to open myself up that much?  Will I slip up and release too much intel related info as to who I am?  Will I become the target of governments and criminals?

Who am I kidding?  I have been writing this blog for several years now and I don't have a mass following yet.  I want to become a more prolific writer which means I would need an audience which means I need to have a following and you can't do that if you hold yourself incognito.  I should set free the irrational fear and let myself shine.  What is the possible worst thing that can happen...I might make some new friends?

So I went to LinkedIn to update my profile with a photo since it would be easier for others to identify me if they could match a name with a face.  I struggle with matching faces with names myself and need all the help I can get.  Trouble is, while I was looking for a photo to use I noticed that I am mostly the one behind the camera and have very few current photos or even many older photos that are of LinkedIn pretentious caliber let alone Facebook worthy.  Maybe generic silhouette is good for LinkedIn for starters but not if I am going to break the mold.  That goes for my Facebook page as well (I was thinking of doing a series of shots with just the back of my head but I am sure it has been done).

While trying to find some new photos to share I came across some old ones I have taken that I kind of like and should find a way to share those as well.  I may have to start loading a few on this blog even just for the fun of it.

Either way I am going to put myself out there and break down some barriers of my own design.  I am going to explore new territories and see if there is anything grand to be had.  And most of all I am going to do a better job at taking selfies.  I am not always as ugly as I think I am.  None of us ever are.

If my hair wasn't such a mess right now I would prove it.

This is Ed Nef with a view from the Farrwest.