Sunday once again. I’ve decided that instead of going to church on Sunday I will use that time to write something, edit some photos, or otherwise do something productive, even if it’s just reading a book. I expect there will be day’s I read the Bible, but today I am writing and working with photos.Also I’ll do any laundry that I didn’t get to on Saturday, my usual laundry day. Today that includes bed sheets, fun.

I spent the last week trying to fix a longstanding problem I’ve had with Facebook. It’s difficult to describe, so I won’t try. I will say that I spent many hours, probably 6-8, trying to trouble shoot the problem with Facebooks AI tech support robot. I was optimistic when I got started. It seems to understand what I was saying, probably better than a low level human phone tech. The robot and I worked together to refine and narrow sown the problem, many times. But as it was many time you can see it never seemed to find the actual problem. Eventually it started going in circles, suggesting this already tried. I got frustrated and cursed it. It suggested I open a ticket with an actual human. Wow, I had been trying to figure out how to get to an actual human from the start, but FB-AI-BOT stood in the way. Perhaps now the gatekeeper of paid employees would let me pass.

Oh no, of course not, the FB-AI-BOT pointed me in the direction of contacting actual human tech support so I can start going around in circles with them until they understood the depth of the technical problem with their labyrinthine IT ecosystem. I will tell you that after going around in circles with FB-AI-BOT it determined that at least part of the problem was with an old invisible account or some such thing. Yes invisible, that’s what it said. And poor FB-AI-BOT simply can’t see invisible. Anyway, FB-AI-BOT told me how to contact actual human tech support, but guess what? What it told me didn’t match reality, big surprise right? I spent maybe another hour trying to figure out how to contact actual humans. I posted screen shots. I used clear language. FB-AI-BOT apologized profusely. FB-AI-BOT kept trying, bless it’s robot heart. But I, with the help of FB-AI-BOT, never actually found a way to report the problem to a human. So I’m giving up.

Today I told Facebook to delete my “business” page, a page I started years ago when a personal business was my main concern. It was a learning thing mostly, as I never managed to make much of a business. There was a lot of experimenting, both with content and settings. I expect the invisible error that has kicked me in the balls probably started and got compounded during this time period. I also have scheduled one of my Instagram profiles for deletion, the one I made to promote my real estate photography business attempt. So I have two accounts scheduled for deletion, scheduled to nuke years worth of content and work, which is okay because it was mostly nothing good, but this is still frustrating. I still have two accounts, once Facebook and one Instagram, with Meta, the parent company of Facebook, which made itself the big daddy after I had my original Facebook account/profile for probably twenty years, give or take. Come to think of it I have a Threads account also, which is another company under the loving care of Meta. Sheesh I never even thought of that when I was trying to find the invisible demon that has caused me so much trouble this week and the many years I’ve been trying to fix this problem.

My Facebook business page should be gone within 24-hours. My Instagram real estate account will take a month. So I will need to wait at least a month before I can see if the invisible problem got nuked or not. I suppose after that, if my problem persists, I will nuke my main Instagram page, which would be a loss I actually feel. It may be a blessing, but it will be painful to loose all of that work I’ve done over the years. I really hope I can keep that Instagram account. I really want a clean Meta portfolio connecting my personal profile to a business profile and page that is connected to an Instagram account and a Threads account. This is the goal. This is what I’ve been trying to accomplish for years now, but some invisible force wants to stop me. I’m not being overly dramatic or using metaphor, remember FB-AI-BOT told me it was an invisible account that was causing all my problems. I refuse to believe my good friend FB-AI-BOT would tell me it was an invisible whatever if FB didn’t actually have and use invisible whatever’s. Sigh, who knows.

I didn’t spend much time on photographs today, or this week really. I did do quite a lot of stuff getting my poor old iMac back in fighting shape. I’m very pleased with the bugs I’ve squashed and the improvements I’ve made. I don’t have the time or energy to bore you good reader with those details at the moment.

There is predicted to be a large winter storm front coming through the eastern part of the country tonight. It is supposed to be very disruptive and dangerous. My southerly location means uncertainty, the front could just miss us, or just hit us. I live on a sort of natural break in the geography that acts as a line of differentiation for such types of weather events, it’s called the fall line. It is a real thing that is fascinating in it’s own right, but I will leave it at that.

At this time school is not expected to be canceled, as predictions have us at the edge of not getting too much bad wether. However there is always the possibility that some gnat farts and the shifts everything just a bitt and we will have actual winter weather. The school board stands ready to shut down the school district if even a single snowflake is seen. A single snowflake is a local crisis to those who have never been anywhere but here. People here can’t drive in the rain let alone the snow. It’s pretty crazy as it rains here a lot. I suppose I should say that people here can’t drive, but theres always those people everywhere.

Today I have only one photo to post. I long for the day when I can cross post between my blog, my Facebook business, my instagram, and yes my Threads. As much as I dislike Meta and it’s children, they are the biggest if not the only game in town for social media. If you can’t beat them join them. Hopefully someday someone will come along and beat them, but hopefully they aren’t as evil. Heh, wishful thinking, i know. Anyway this photograph is of a football field at night with the American flag proudly waving. Again a nice sense of calm that I appreciate. It’s not fancy but It does make me feel something. This is from the batch of photos from the HOCO marching band competition in October 2025.

I need to do other things now. Cheers.

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