Writing With A Headache
And Grammarly isn't helping.
Writing with a headache is an adventure. The challenge is to focus on typing up your thoughts while a portion of those thoughts is locked onto the pain in your head. Can you stay on topic? For me, the answer was no since I’m now writing about writing with a headache.
I am also frustrated right now with Grammarly constantly trying to correct me. Take that last sentence in the above paragraph. Grammarly wants me to drop the “For me …”. If I do, it changes the sentence's meaning entirely. It changes from talking about me to the audience. I’m not answering for the audience. I’m answering for myself.
Really Grammarly? You want me to drop the “answering for” in those last sentences? That makes no sense. “I’m not answering the audience. I’m answering myself.” That’s not what I was saying at all.
Sigh.
Don’t get me wrong. Grammarly is a good tool. I encourage you to check it out. For business writing, it works wonderfully. But it’s days like today when I’m writing casually; I don’t think it knows what it’s talking about. It’s focused on what it wants to write and fails to grasp the conversation. There might be some setting somewhere to get Grammarly to cooperate, but that will take some digging.
Well, drat. I did it again, didn’t I? I went down that rabbit hole.
And… I’ve lost the topic entirely.
Oh well. Let's try again next week. Ha!
This Week
I’m still reviewing all my notes for the next podcast episode. I’ve narrowed the topic to three; I just need to pick one and start again. Yay, procrastination.
I’m still exploring Lemmy. The Oklahoma community I started has been gaining subscribers every day. Not bad for just word-of-mouth. If you’re interested, please feel free to join us at !oklahoma@lemmy.sdf.org.
Join Lemmy - Lemmy’s home page.
Lemmy Explorer - Find Lemmy instances and communities.
How to Lemmy (YouTube) - A Lemmy tutorial.
More later. Time to stop procrastinating.
In The News
Supreme Court Upholds Federal Provision Barring Racial Gerrymandering | Oklahoma Watch
Games planned as Big 12 looks to expand reach into Mexico | The Journal Record
KIDS COUNT Report Shows Oklahoma Ranks 46th for Child Well-Being | Oklahoma Policy Institute
Cherokee Nation acquires Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch | Tulsa World
OSSAA seeing positive results from 'Sportsmanship Rule' | KFOR
UPS Teamsters overwhelmingly authorize strike if no deal is reached by August 1 | CNN Business
Listening In
I returned to an old favorite last week and mainly listened to Radio Paradise.
I'm about halfway through Demon by John Varley on Audible. Getting in some good listening time, so I should be done with it soon. Not sure what's next yet.
Something To Watch
The Ultimate Oklahoma Fried Onion Burger Road Trip | Burger Bucket List | First We Feast
Avoiding Disaster yet finding Paradise! Slim's Roadtrip Part 8 | Slim Potatohead
How to MOTIVATE Yourself to Work Out (Realistically) | WheezyWaiter
1000 Feet of Denim and 20 Gallons of Epoxy | Blacktail Studio
Babylon 5: The Road Home | Official Trailer
Librarian - The Quest for the Spear - Official Trailer
I just learned this week, The Librarian is on Freevee, Amazon's free-with-ads streaming service. The Librarian is a modern fantasy-adventure trilogy of made-for-TV movies and later a full series, The Librarians. I really enjoyed the movies and the series extended the lore nicely. Worth watching for light adventure.
Feedback Welcome
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Have a great week.
– K.
