Making Progress

I still am underwhelmed by the AI that wix has. You would think it would be able to automate use of some of the tools to eliminate the need to do things manually, but that is not how it is 'programmed.' For example, if I want captions under all the pictures, it seems like I should be able to say - add a blank caption box under each picture that I can click and fill in. I got garbage. There are other examples. I pay for a moderate level (not the cheap level and not the super deluxe), but it will not remember global level commands from session to session. Likewise, it cannot parse multi-command actions. Something simple like - create a blank page entitled "x"; link selected text field to page "x"; do not add "x" to header menu bar; navigate to page "x" invariably results in X appearing in the title menu bar. So you ask it - why did you do that when I explicitly told you not to. It will acknowledge that it saw the command and basically say - I am stupid, I can't help myself even though you told me not to do something. SMH.

It basically boils down to intent. I want a tool that automates the use of the tools therewithin. Wix is designed to not help use the tools but instead generate the content that those tools enable (captions, text, headings, etc.). It wants to create the content instead of making tool use automated so that I can put my content in place.

Nevertheless, I am making progress. Pics are getting uploaded. Captions are getting started. Some details are being filled in as I find them. Some typos are getting corrected.

I still like that even though I have to routine things manually, Wix is still WYSIWYG.

In other news, up to 2000 m in my swimming. In my triathlon days, we got up to over 2.4 miles. So I am halfway there (kind of). I struggle to think what 160(ish) lengths of swimming will be like, even though I have records of me doing it. I don't have my bike here in KY (either stationary or road), so I am not biking, but we used to do 40 miles on a tuesday morning at Lifetime on their stationary bikes. Two hours and change typically. That seems so long ago and kind of out of reach at this point. But not impossible.

In other other news, KY has given me a lot of perspective. Not necessarily all good. I see where I contributed to the hash that my personal life became, but I also note that double standards abound and when I avail myself of standards that others promulgate, I am suddenly the bad guy.

So, I will close this with some pointed realizations. I may edit this out later as I am not sure this site is the place for airing my dirty laundry. But given that my audience is approximately 3-7 people currently based on site traffic, a little journaling is not going to break anything.

Priorities. Decisions. Actions. Consequences. -- Take responsibility for these.

It kind of sucks when you tell someone you are hurting; they know you are hurting, and they still don't help.

There is a little irony when choices make someone miserable and when they step out of the situation as a consequence, you end up miserable.

Sometimes you have to look in the mirror and say "I chose this. This is the consequence of my decisions and actions."