First post of 2021

We stayed up… almost to midnight, and awoke for a few minutes to watch the ball drop in Times Square in NYC.

In the new year, I am resuming my social media use after a couple of months to be off line. No Facebook, no Instagram — it was a good change to adopt for a short while.

But, it was nice to resume — with a new year’s perspective.

Having added both IG and FB icons back on the group “Social Networks” from my Home Screen.

I can appreciate now, how “top Apps, of 2020” would include Facebook, and Instagram — as well as the biggest winner of “at the right place, at the right time” it’s Zoom!!

But, I also like having a few key features for “SmartHome”, such as our lights being controlled on a schedule, or with motion sensors, or with voice commands thru Amazon Echo (an Alexia device).

Hue (from Philips) makes great, top-of-the-line residential lighting (spell that expensive) and we’ve bought both flood lights, interior lights as well.

The “social media” arena is ever changing, but a few of my personal favorite have remained key tools in both reading and posting on-line.

The Patreon tool is very popular for funding yoga classes on-line; but it’s used broadly in fund raising and social concerns. I personally have found a couple of reasonable price monthly donations that I feel great about contributing, and get awesome ashtanga and vinyasa flow (partly video based, and partly just audio recordings).

The other, Apps worth mentioning: GoodReads (now, part of Amazon) and also the wordPress App (I’m using to write this) as well as the “Vermont phenomenon” called: “Front Porch Forum”

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