Still Annoying
by pinkagendist
I’ve been actively avoiding wordpress and non-business emails this whole year! WordPress because I still hate the blue and white ‘simplified’ thing- but now I’ve found a way to get to the regular add new post by going to the dashboard. I also hate the new reader. It’s confusing. Hard to see who wrote what. I don’t like change. I’ve just gotten comfortable with the old format, I don’t want to waste my time learning a whole new thing.
I’ve been working a lot lately. Much more than usual. I still have mirrors and side tables and an outdoor table and a number of other things to find for that project that began in December. Someone brought me a coffee-pot they want to sell. It’s tiny, under 6 inches. Probably modelled by Johann Jakob Irminger circa 1712.
It’s got some issues. The lid doesn’t appear original (although of the same period). It’s also got three tiny chips. The gold mounts are quite beautiful. There’s an almost identical piece with darker glaze at the British Museum. In perfect condition it would be worth around 50,000 euros (US$ 66,845). Alas, it is not in perfect condition. It’s going to have to go to London to be inspected by someone who knows more about this than me- then my job is to select the best venue/method of sale and wait for a commission. I hate commissions. It seems so undignified to take them.
A cousin contacted me a couple of days ago. Not a close cousin (those, I avoid). He’s French. His name is Jean and he’s always been exceedingly kind to me. His wife had a stroke a few months ago and they need a break, a few days in the sun. So they’re arriving on the 1st of February for a week. He’s from a rather grand and interesting part of the family (I won’t deny I’m a bit envious of his history). In the portrait below you can see his great-grandfather, N. Thiebaut (furthest to the right, standing up), at the signing of the peace treaty that ended the Spanish-American war (circa 1898?). The painting is hanging in the White House.
Agree 100% about the reader.
you have been so away!
they ought to have left it as it were or just tweak a little bit but I don’t see the need though.
I agree. I can’t stand the new format. It’s not an improvement.
Haha snob
I suspect you’d like to get your hands on that painting. 
I hate the new ‘new post’ as well. I find I’m using it because I’m lazy and then I realise that to add any pictures or html I have to go to the old format so… save draft/My Blogs/view drafts/find draft/edit draft….Merde. WordPress wasn’t that hard to learn in the first place. Why are they doing this to us????
That certainly is a grand and interesting family member, I expect that your kindness in sharing your sunny home will be repaid in interesting stories (not the painting though, dammit!)
I don’t even bother with the WP front page or any of that horrible stuff. I have an icon to take me straight to my dashboard and do everything from there. Gods, that Reader is awful
I’m still not sure how much ‘contact’ they want to have. I think she might want to be left to her own devices, I imagine that’s what I would want… we’ll see
Love the photo of the coffee pot. Charming.
Mike is my photo guy
, which fortunately reduces our costs dramatically 
I’ve never used the reader. I type in my blog’s address, click sign in and use the Dashboard, then I open a new tab and go directly to the blogs I read. Keeping the Dashboard tab open assures that I’m still signed in when I comment. With these habits, I never even see what WordPress is doing, and was only dimly aware that there was a change in anything.
i’m so with you on the wp reader. I HATE IT. i loved looking at the fp section when it was on the nice homepage and it was easy to scroll through just that. now it looks like shite! hello, all that wp has to do is ask it users if they like it and the response would overwhelmingly be NOOOOO. lool. xoxo, miss you, pinky. sm
too much work, my dear
I’m totally swamped