Update: The Suspense Account and Flame By the Sea are no longer part of Kindle Unlimited.

The Suspense Account & Flame By the Sea were free 9-22-2022.

This was part of my Canary in the Coal Mine Experiment.

First:

Much thanks to anyone who downloaded the book on the free day.  I appreciate it.

Take away from the canary in the coal mine experiment.

1. I need to drive more traffic.  Obviously.

2. Twitter has me shadow banned and that does hurt.  But on the other hand, the people who actually do follow me on twitter, whether left or right, are good people. (Note that I now have my sayata twitter account set to private.  I did that because twitter gave my eBook promotion fewer than 3 impressions.)  Also note that I sold sayata.com but I do still own sayata.net)

3.  I believe Amazon is tracking for me.  It just has been nothing there to track.

Going forward:

I am thinking and will post more when I have time.  When I was first working on this I had to run an errand.

9/5/2022

Happy Labor day.  Remember to take deep breaths between contractions.  I know, bad joke. 🙂  Still, I hope you’ve had fun during this last summer vacation period and have had a  good summer.

8/29/2022

New Crossword Puzzle has been added to saywebapp.com

8/27/2022

I was about so, so along on doing a new crossword puzzle and my computer froze.  I got the computer back working but I had not been saving the crossword puzzle so I have to start over.  But I will get-errrr done.

I do plan to start Book 8 in the Hearthville Serial.  It will be published here.  I do plan to put more eBooks on Amazon so my writing time is going to be divided.

& remember if you are a member of kindle unlimited The Suspense Account and Flame By Sea (published as 1 book) is now enrolled so you can read for free if you are a member.   As far as non members, I am not currently planning any free day promotions.  I will with the new shorter erotic mysteries/horrors but I am not doing that with that long of a book.  I did that in the past and it accomplished nothing.  And to be honest, I need the ($8.99×70%) – delivery cost  🙂

But to be clear I do plan to add content here for people who have been clicking and buying through my ads, as well as for the deadbeats. (Yeah, I know, you aren’t really a deadbeat.)  Anyway,  I’ve been slow to add content and I apologize for that.

I hope everyone is doing great and having a great conclusion to summer as Labor Day is coming up Monday, September 5, 2022.

 

8/23/2022

I am still kicking.  I removed a bunch of previous bulletins and the promotion for The Suspense Account and Flame By The Sea.

Much thanks for putting up with my indecision and moods.

 

 

 

I hope your 2021 was wonderful and your 2022 will be even better.

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year

11-26-2021

My semi-like to absolutely hating twitter is–on the scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being absolute hate–currently at level  5.

Back Tweeting Today, but will maintain these micro blog pages for stuff twitter is likely to give me less than 20 impressions and there is no reason to put on twitter.

…. Micro Blog Page

11/26/2021

9:18 AM This second Dow Futures are down 808.  Is this start of a new covid crash?  Oil is also down 5% or so to $74 WTI Crude Oil. Gold is up.  Bitcoin is down 7.62%.

 

11/25/2021

6:38 PM

On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy, Jr.; his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy; and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the single-engine plane that Kennedy was piloting crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard.

On July 21, navy divers recovered the bodies of JFK Jr., his wife, and sister-in-law from the wreckage of the plane, which was lying under 116 feet of water about eight miles off the Vineyard’s shores. A very speedy autopsy was done. The next day, the cremated remains of the three were buried at sea during a ceremony on the USS Briscoe, a navy destroyer.

To what would he have become if he had lived, I don’t know.  He was a thoughtful person, a smart person who enjoyed knowledge, but in truth he was not a very good speaker.

3:36 PM

I will be honest.  Once upon a time I liked Reese Witherspoon

She was born in Louisiana and grew up in Tennessee.  She is Southern,  Baby.  That is a plus.

And In 1996 she made the tough ass movie Freeway.

And I liked the totally fluffy feel good Legally Blonde Movies…  I did.

But then I read her twitter and it is like who the freak is this ultra liberal,  close minded liberal, putting sand up your ass crack Beach liberal.  Man, it is sad.  How can a Southern Girl become such a cliche, plastic, should I say it again, liberal??

Then I looked into the money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Sunshine_(company)

The white girl wants to be Oprah.  It is sad, honey.  Just sad. Yeah.

& to be clear I don’t dislike her now.  I just don’t like her as much as I once did.  Hating is what liberals do.  Hating is not what libertarians do.

3:30 PM

Happy Thanksgiving

11/23/2021

9:24 PM

Music
The Jesus And Mary Chain – Blues From A Gun

7:31 AM

Note: ACE2 receptors are one of the primary mechanisms of infection and spread of Covid though it is a little more complicated than just ACE2 receptors.  I can’t find the white paper that has the better explanation.  Regardless the study on how Vitamin C and Zinc and other natural compounds might slow the spread both between people and in a person is interesting.

The results of a study ACE2 show that ascorbic acid itself has moderate but consistent lowering effects on ACE2 expression at the cellular, protein, and RNA levels. Some natural compounds were effective in lowering ACE2 cellular expression, with the highest inhibitory effects observed for baicalin (75%) and theaflavin (50%). Significantly, combinations of these and other test compounds with ascorbic acid further decreased ACE2 expression. The highest impact of ascorbate on ACE2 expression was noted when combined with theaflavin (decrease from 50% to 87%), zinc (decrease from 22% to 62%), and with 10-undecenoic acid (from 18% to 53%). Ascorbic acid showed moderate additional benefits in decreasing ACE2 expression when combined with N-acetylcysteine and baicalin.

6:59 AM China has gone full blown evil, murdering the pets of people who test positive for covid.  There is NO evidence that covid infects back and forth between animals and humans.  … And no google search, why in the hell would I say affects instead of infects you piece of AI shit.

6:39 AM
Harris announces $1.5B to fight shortage of doctors in underserved communities. So in other words if you practice medicine in certain areas the government will reduce/help pay for the cost of your education. “Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, this funding will support over 22,700 providers—the largest field strength in history for these programs and a record number of skilled doctors, dentists, nurses, and behavioral health providers committed to working in underserved communities during a moment when we need them the most,” the announcement continued.

<<  It is kind of like pissing in the ocean and pointing at wave and asking, “Did I do that?” like you have the power to cause the ocean level to rise.  You have to wonder if Harris even realizes she is the Vice-President of the United States of America and not some tiny country like Jamaica.  A lot of people from immigrant families, for some reason, don’t seem to have a clue to how large, how rich, and how powerful the United States is.

6:18 AM Germany’s Health Minister is fairly insane. #opinion It is hard to get a true handle on the survival rate of covid because google has topped their search results with fake fact checking bullshit.  But, if you catch it, you treat it, and don’t allow the government to murder you in the hospital w/out real treatment you have a fairly high chance of surviving it.  There is very little provable evidence that the vaccine changes those odds much, because early on most people who caught covid didn’t even get sick from it so how can you prove that has changed or more to the point that now suddenly, the vaccine is the reason most people who test positive do not get very sick and die.

Germany’s vaccination rate is around 65% and yet their case load has been increasing and the number of people who subject themselves to hospitals has been increasing.  Since the roll out of the untested vaccines in the US the number of cases has increased to a number higher than before the vaccines.  The Health Minister of Germany and his crazy eyes should be put in a straight jacket somewhere. #opinion

6:14 AM  I thought the interview Tucker Carlson did with Kyle Rittenhouse was a good interview and Kyle spoke well.

11-22-2021

My semi-like to absolutely hating twitter is–on the scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being absolute hate–currently at level 8 so I am no longer wasting my time with twitter.  In the past I figured well, at least link content to here from there, but there is no point.

….  Micro Blog Page

7:38 PM

Music

  Continue reading Micro-Blog 11-22-2021

9/22/2021

There was a critical error on sayata.net/m/ caused by a plugin. I changed the name of the plugin  folder and got the site back working on the backend.  The frontend seemed to be working during the critical error. I am not sure if there was an update of wordpress that started the error or what.  The plugin had not been updated in 2 months.  There was no change in php.  I am not sure what triggered the problem, but to be clear I do NOT blame the writer of the plugin.

Unfortunately I had used the plugin quite a bit.  It was what generated the tables I was using for a listing of the stories and the tip menu and such.   You will see the code for the plugin in place of the table.

My sites on a different host were pretty much wiped out (nothing to do with the plugin or the issues here) and I am having to rebuild.  To be clear I do not blame that host for the issues.  Some were using flat pages w/out any cms.  They are on a different host from sayata.net and saywebapp.com.

I don’t really know if I have been under attack or the problems have been coincidence.

Previous Update below:

First … sayata.net will continue as normal but with more content being added soon.  I have been sidetracked with some things.

Second and the main reason for this announcement…

I have sold sayata.com.

I have owned the domain sayata.com since 1999 so it is kind of sad for me.  I had not wanted to sell it but the money on the table became too much for me to walk away from.  The sale was made to a mystery buyer with a broker/agent handling the sale.

I had been planning to update the georgia lottery apps before things happened that were on sayata.com and had been working on the apps.  I had owned saywebapp.com before all this came up.  The georgia lottery apps will now be located there and with a current data set.

 

3rd… I am still writing on the Hearthville Serial.  I will be posting new episodes soon to sayata.net.

Much thanks,

Chuck

6-10-21

My phone alarm clock went off at 4:00 this morning.  I needed to get up.  I had something I needed to do.  I cut it off and went back to sleep.  I got up at 6:30.  Oh well…………

I don’t know what I dreamed last night.  But I woke up in a really bad mood.

… be back later to write more. Breakfast timers just went off and I am hungry.

I back.

I eat a egg in a biscuit. Bacon.  Hash brown. & a Tomato.  & a Dr Pepper.  Shut up.  I like my soft drinks.

So….

Yesterday I was writing on a computer program.  & I could not get a routine to work.  I  bet I spent three hours on it.  Chasing my tail without accomplishing anything.  The result was wrong.  It kept being wrong.  What the hell.  It was driving me crazy.  It should work.

So finally I walked away from it.  I went out to feed my horses and goats.  Came back in.  Watched a little of a movie on DVD, “The Mechanic.”  It is not about working on cars.  It is about hitmen if you have not seen it.  It is a good movie.  The guy is lied to and convinced to take a job to kill his mentor.  Then the mentor’s son enters the picture and he takes him under his wing and well I don’t want to give the plot away.

So while I was watching the movie I went and got my computer to start back working on the program.  And it dawned on me to try moving the routine.  I moved it to the function that calls the function that I had been putting the routine  in.  I moved the routine to after the other function returned its result and low and behold the routine started giving the right results.  A head slap moment.  I still do not fully understand why it would not give the right results where I was putting it.  But then the order of those for loops and if thens can get confusing to me and obviously I had become confused.  It was getting caught in a loop where it did not belong.  I guess.  So obviously I had put the routine in the wrong function.

Anyways … till later.

 

 

 

 

 

6-9-2021

Still kicking about.

I can not believe this year is already approaching half over.

My dad wore a T-Shirt yesterday that come out of the black hole.  It was an older one.  It was strange how it just appeared at the top of the basket.  But anyway, it read, “Never put off ’til tomorrow what you can do next week.”  That totally fits with me.

That night before I had a weird dream.  I was at a water park.  Those type of shirts are what we used to wear when camping or at an amusement or water park or such.  But anyway, in my dream there was a long escalator at the entrance to the water park and it was broken.  So I had to climb the stairs.  Don’t you hate when you get tired in a dream. Like damn.  Climb.  Climb. Climb. And after I got up the escalator,  the park was a mess.  Then in the dream I was doing paperwork for them to buy new pumps and motors and such and a guy was looking over my shoulder.  He told me, “This is going to cost a fortune.”

But I gave him the paperwork.  And I don’t remember what came next in the dream.  But at some point someone came up to me and they wanted me to pay them for something.  So I got my billfold out.  There was a lot of money in it but it seemed to be the wrong currency.  Then I pulled out this sack and I started paying them with beaver pelts.  And I was looking at the beaver pelts and one of them was suddenly alive and he looked up at me and said, “Are you freaking crazy.”

So, that was my dream.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6-5-2021

Sorry that I am being slow to add new content.

Note that old content on this page is deleted when new content is added here as most of what I  post here is only relevant to a short window of time.

What have I been doing?

Working with my animals.  I had some issues that was taking a good bit of my time.  Two of my horses needed some extra TLC.  Knock on wood, they are doing good now.

I have been redoing the Georgia Fantasy 5 program  but have not posted it yet over on sayata.com.  I had some problems getting back into  the javascript programming mode.  So what I have been doing has been taking longer than it should.  I am starting the data fresh.  I am leaving what I have as legacy but the new app will start with more recent data.  I am no longer adding new data to the legacy apps.

I have been working on a new serial.  I can’t decide on whether to use it for Vella or post it here.  I wish I had more confidence that Vella would work for me but I have my doubts.  Some of my doubts have to do with  my history with KDP Amazon.  I have trouble getting past when they deleted my keywords out for no freaking reason.  And I can’t ignore Amazon’s history of censorship.  I love Amazon.  I buy from Amazon.  I promote Amazon, but the KDP part has hurt me. I will fully admit that I am not the greatest writer in the world, but in comparison to other writers there is no doubt I should have done better there.  Part of my failure there may be fully on me, but part of it has to do with KDP itself.  Rightly or wrongly, that is the way I feel.

I may be wrong.  I often am.  But given the behavior of KDP employees I don’t really see Vella being a success.  I wanted to but then I stopped to think.  Why would it be a success?  I don’t know.  It could be huge success but I have my doubts.  I am not sure what the writer profiles are going to be but from what I can tell they will be very limited.  Amazon is so afraid of free speech they are not going to allow the writers to have discussion boards or chat.  They can’t link out to build their brand on their website or even their regular author page.  Amazon expects people to drive traffic to them but not pull any traffic from them.  And part of the revenue is not only going to be shared with Amazon but Apple.  Amazon implies that they will help writers get in-house traffic and that may be true of their little darlings but for the rest of us, I kind of doubt that.   So my success or failure on Vella would pretty much depend on the traffic I drive and right now I am not doing a very good job of driving traffic.  I am not advertising. And if I have to start advertising I would be better off promoting e-Books with a 70% cut.

All that said.  Vella is going to be a new toy and I am more than tempted to want to play with it.

 

 

 

 

 

Randolph Scott plays the Marshall Dan Mitchell who tries to keep things peaceful in town. Edgar Buchanan plays the sheriff Bravo Trimble who rather gambles than shoots. Lloyd Bridges can be seen as Henry Dreiser.  And sure there are also some pretty ladies involved.

In this town one side of the dirt, dusty road are Saloons. And on the other side of the road are shops. In the beginning the town is dependent on the cowboys driving their trail herds to the railroad stockyards. Then there comes the settlers: the “tame” people. And the Saloon keepers become concerned that the shop keeps will see where they can make more money from the settlers than from the cowboys who are a rough lot when they hit the saloons.

It might be compared to what is happening to the internet right now. We cowboys (content creators) are being chased off while the shop keepers, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon think they no longer need us. They just want the “tame” people on their sites who will think what the shopkeeper’s “preacher” tells them to think and who to elect to office.

Of course in the movie the homesteaders are the “good” people and the cowboys are the villains. Never mind that  the trail that was on public land and should NOT have been fenced off. The movie was made in 1946. 8 years later in 1954 martial law would come to Russell County, Alabama to “clean” Phenix City up from the brothels and the Saloons and the Gambling Houses.  The intent of the propaganda in the movie was to encourage people to “clean up” the many such towns  across the United States.

The movie is a good, fun movie and with some pretty legs to view. But even while showing the fun part of the town, the propaganda line is clear that the fun part of the town must come to an end. In the end, the “tame” always win.

Ann Dvorak and Rhonda Fleming are reason enough to want to watch this movie. Giving Randolph Scott not one but two such leading ladies was genius in itself.

 

Keywords: Romance, Western, Ann Dvorak, Lloyd Bridges, Edgar Buchanan, Randolph Scott