Entry #6 The Holiday season

 The Holiday Season

The holiday seasons are my favorite times of the year. Especially the Christmas season. Thanksgiving is a fun time of the year but it seems to me like Thanksgiving is a shorter season. Yes, most of us get break from school and work for Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving seem like a one or two holiday, you gather with family and enjoy a feast. perhaps, if family is not around, you enjoy food that you would not normally eat and you overindulge. Still taking time to text or call to give family members well wishes. 

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Christmas season to me starts around December 1 until December 25. The rean it is my favorite holiday and holiday season is just the feeling of kindness in the air. Total strangers wishing other total strangers Merry Christmas, and sometimes with a smile. I enjoy seeing the decorations in people's yard. Also, around this time of the year, the stores are typically full of shoppers. The Christmas music just hits different too! There is still the element of gathering with family and having a special meal. Not to mention, most people probably get a long break from school and work than any other holiday.

 

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Merry Christmas

Entry #8. Self-Impose social medial and internet limits

 Self-Impose social medial and internet limit. 

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I recent impose a unofficial internet and social media limit. Spending time on social media does past time, but for me it is useless. It does not make me better or make my life better. I can never get that time back, look at other people live their life on Instagram. However, I still do go on Instagram daily, but I try to stay on a social medial apps no longer than ten minutes at a time.

I have so much more time to do productive things now that I spend less time on my phone. However, I think I could get even more done if I spent even less time on the internet and on social medial apps. At one time, I had a routine, in the mornings, I would go on: sport sites, multiple news sites, Instagram, and entertainment site. In the future I plan on continue to limit my internet and social media use, to live a better quality of life.

Blogs: Entry #7 #Hashtag

 #Hashtag

Are hashtags still relevant in 2023? I think # are semi relevant in today's social media society. In my social media world, hashtags are not relevant, but i really only use one social media platform. The platform I use is Instagram, I hardly ever see a hashtag on Instagram. However, I do know that hashtags are used more on other social media platforms like Tik Tok and Twitter. On Tik Tok and Twitter, I think hashtags are used to make some start trending. The bottom line is that I am not in the demographic to give the best answer to say whether hashtags are still relevant. 

I am not sure about other social media trends have come and gone, but I do think social media platforms come and goes. For example, I do not think Facebook has lost a lot of steam and is not in the top 4 of social media platforms. To me, in no particular order, I think the top 4 social media platforms are: Instagram, Tik Tok, X, and Snapchat. 

Social media has showed me not to take things I see on social media too serious. Because you never know what is real with all the filters and people faking who they are.

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Blogs: Entry #4

 The Saga Continues

My litter of Doberman puppies are still around, almost 9 weeks old. They along with school are on the list with some of the hardest things I have done in a while. I am having to feed these puppies, which is not bad. The cleaning up after these dogs are a game changer. The amount of poop and pee is mind blowing.

As, I stated before, my mother and sister are dog breeders, in another state. I hear them talked about how much money they make selling dogs, So, I decided to give it a try, I will never do this again. one reason is people like to waste other people time. People text me and ask for more pictures of the puppies, I be thinking, the picture are on the ad you saw the dog on. Then they call me with a sad story about a dog they had before, talk for 15 or 20 minutes, tell me they are going to buy a puppy. I never hear from them again, I sent extra pictures, listen to your story, and wasted my time.

They are so cute, lovable and destructive.

Entry #3 Slanted Reporting Quest

 Slanting in writing

We all have all bias, but in writing we can be factual and not opinionated. Perhaps, we can be opinionated, but do it in a way that the readers can not recognize out slanting. I would suggest steering your reader only with favorable stats and data to make our bias side more convincing. 

We live in polarize political times, political media outlets do not even try and hide their bias. For example, over the past few years, we have had major breaking news in America. But some media outlets will not air major real-life events, if it does not meet their network slanting. For example, there was some major political event that was happening, and Twitter and Instagram were going crazy. At the top of an hour, I would turn to several new outlets, most were airing the major breaking new and the network that has a bias Pov were not coving said story. When the story became to big to ignore, they cover the story with a slanted point-of-view.     

Blog #2

 This summer was brutal.

For all my fellow Arizonia, how was your summer? we had records breaking temperature this summer. At one point, it had been oner 110 degrees for over a month. I did not want to go outside during the daytimes. My a.c. could not keep up with the hellish heat. Also, I received the highest electrical bill of all time.  My electric bill was almost $600, pervious high electric bill was about $450.00. 

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Go to this link to see our past record break heat, www.azcentral.com, that we had during summer 2023. Guess what? Be prepared for another hot summer next year. 

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Blog #1 I am a grand-dog-dad

 I am a grand-dog-dad

If you have seen any of my blogs from my past English 101 class, then you know I have 2 Dobermans. I have a 3-year-old girl and 1 & 1/2-year-old boy Doberman. Guess what? They had puppies for the first time.

It was cool watching the mom do all the feeding and cleaning but now that the puppies are older, she left all the work to me. It is so much work cleaning up after all these puppies.  I can honest say the new puppies are affecting my life in a negative way. I guess that is what being a grand-dog-dad is all about. it time to find my new grand-dogs a home. I will keep you posted, or should I say I will keep you blogged.