It's not so much that I planned to fall behind or that I stopped taking my pictures (entirely) it's more that complications beyond me frustrated me too much. I use Smugmug to store all my photos. I use Google's Picasa program to manage my photos on my computer. Normally, they communicate with each other just fine. All I have to do is touch a button and I can upload how ever many photos from Picasa to Smugmug. Then Picasa went and got an update.
I'm not happy with this update. I understand why they did it, mainly because they used to also run Picnik and they shut that down so they had to remove the Picnik button from Picasa. This would all be fine if this update didn't effect my other endeavors (like smugmug)-which it did!
Yes, Picasa is free and yes, there is still the method of selecting the photo files from my computer and uploading them directly to Smugmugs website so I have no room for complaint. However, it was so convenient and easy before! Now, I have to actually work for it.
Add in that my life has been pretty crazy lately (running kids here, and there, keeping them entertained, etc) and I just lost motivation. I uninstalled and re-installed Picasa and the Smugmug button with no success.
I did find a trick where I uninstall both, find the button file, delete it, and then reinstall everything and I can use Picasa as my uploader no problem. I shared this info with Smugmug (who had been trying to help me for weeks with no success) and they were happy and gave me credit on my account. Have I mentioned before how much I LOVE Smugmug? Then, unfortunately, the trick stopped working after only a few uploads until I repeated the process. Booo!
It's not that I can't blog without pictures, it's just that it's boring to do so (take this post for example). Frustrated or not, I'm working on catching up.
2 months done, 10 days still missing (and counting if I don't pull my camera back out).
I don't expect anyone to catch up on what I've been neglecting, but just saying work has been done.
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