Alternate Reality

In my campaign to try and bring some common sense back to America I felt that simply highlighting all of the stupid things that Trump did during his presidency and subsequently would be enough. What do I need to accomplish this mission? Videos to illustrate the problems, a website to house the videos, and a bumper sticker just to thumb my nose at the RNC and show a little respect for Biden.

It has been 20 years since I’ve done any video work, 5 years since I last built a website, and I’ve never done a bumper sticker before. This should be fun, what with modern technology things should have only gotten easier. Right? Not so much. Here is the single most important change using technology, every single thing you might want to do has been monetized. Everything starts out with a free version but God help you if you want to make something different. And how is it possible to do a text effect in Microsoft Word and I can’t do it on Canva? This is my first step into the alternate reality.

Before I go too far into my alternate reality let me just offer that I suffer from “old intuition.” I believe that you should be able figure out how to use something without having to watch a bunch of YouTube videos; and even then YouTube isn’t always gonna save you. The same holds true for Google search. They offer plenty of solutions that don’t actually solve your problem. Or even better, when the solution can’t be followed because what they’re telling you is not what your look at on your device. This is where you go into alternate reality. You follow the steps and things still don’t work. Get another solution and follow those instructions still nothing. Go for it a third time and you can’t even find the buttons they’re talking about.

This is why I would like to offer a new definition of insanity, computer edition. “Doing the same thing over and over again and getting different results. This story is not over.