no Catfish for you

 I don't reckon either of the dawgs does any zooming. I thought it was stupid before the pandemic, and I still thought that through much of the pandemic but finally I got into it with my two watercolor classes and my improv class, and while it was no way close to the real thing it was way better than nothing.  But a few weeks into it I developed a glitch: Zoom didn't recognize my speakers.  They were working for everything else and Zoom knew they were there, and I gave it permission to use them, and I tried all the solutions I could google and nada.  Well my computer is six years old and I thought maybe I ought to just get myself a new one, so I went out to Best Buy and got some information from the guy there and as long as I was there I walked the aisles of the other electronics, most of which I had no idea what they were for, but did see plenty of tvs.  They did seem pretty cheap, but my old, what 17 incher, is humming along just fine.

I don't remember what I told Old Dog about my Roku, except maybe that it was cheap, but if he is streaming along just fine without it, good for him, one less complication.

That quote is from that big business website that was all links and pictures and I didn't see any solid block of text and it's not in the present tense, it's in one of those more complicated tenses and indicates that this is something that has happened in the past, and there are no stats accompanying it or anything, so I am giving it a big thumbs down and closing the case as far as I am concerned.  And I get the distinct impression that Beagles has never done either of the searches that I suggested, and as I have said this headbanging is giving me a headache.

I didn't expect that my begging for lit crit would come to much and it hasn't.  Beyond saying you liked it you could say what characters you liked or didn't like, did it seem believable, did it remind you of something in your own life, that sort of thing.  When you had to write what you did over summer vacation was Teach ever satisfied with "I liked it a lot?"

The point of discussing a incomplete work is that it is interesting to know what the reader thinks at one point to compare it with what they will think when they are done, for the author that is, the author who is spending a lot of time pulling and editing these chapters out of a very large Word doc, and it might be nice to give him a little of your time to compensate him for the time he is putting in.

Begging is unseemly but saying nothing wasn't getting me any response.  But now it turns out that neither does begging.  Fine, no Catfish for you guys this morning.