Obviously AI

 but I like it. I am referring to the blog header.

That image is the latest I created - after much frustration and correcting and reformulating the prompts - I like it. It isn't great or even very good but there is something about it that keeps my eye engaged - I think it's the font.

I've been using AI to create images for several years - but I've never mastered the art of framing good prompts. Remember the bad old days when there were always extra arms, fingers and other assorted anomalies? You don't get that these days - at least I don't. 

I think ChatGPT was the first AI app that was available to everyone for free, now there are so many it's hard to keep track. Supposedly Gemini is the best for images but I disagree, I much prefer Microsoft's Co-Pilot.

Unless you are a professional digital artist most AI images are so obviously AI - flat, static and ordinary and share a sameness that is uninteresting, boring and non-engaging. I've seen some AI images, done by, shall we say, amateurs, that were brilliant and I was hard pressed to identify them as such. I am NOT one of those amateurs, needless to say.

I do enjoy the animated AI featuring animals that I see in reels - they are delightful and charming, usually making me smile. You know they are AI and not 'regular' animations (CGI or whatever it is called these days and does anyone do the old fashioned hand drawn cels animation any more?) and I enjoy them for exactly what they are. 

A part of me would very much like to learn how to use AI for non-image related tasks and then there is the other part of me that says why bother since I have no real use for it. I just like learning new things.

It's Sunday, 6:24am and

 I haven't been to bed yet. I've been up all night putting this blog together. Yes, another blog which no one will read. Because I have spent over 20 years changing blog urls, blog names, blog platforms. As a matter of fact this is the second blog I made this night - I deleted the first one because I didn't like where I had linked it. 

At one time, way back when, I had lots of readers now I have just about none. 

I get bored easily for starters. And since my husband died I have sort of lost interest in life and what I do want to write (document) is all the depressing stuff that occupies my mind. And who the hell wants to read that. And because people might actually read it and have, well a reaction to what I was writing and I didn't/don't want that sort of reaction. 

But then again I want someone, anyone to know what I am thinking and feeling. To say that I am dichotomous is putting it mildly. But then I have always described myself as dichotomous. 

So the Wordpress blog is dead. I'll leave it up so I have a record of what I've written - those most of it was from one of the old Blogger blogs - which is still here. 

So many blogs - and, not to blow my own horn, but a goodly amount of really good writing. Anyone remember when I wrote interesting things and wrote them well? I used to be a good writer, a way with words I had.

And I haven't written any poetry since my husband died. His life stopped and so did mine, it seems. 

I want to get back into living but I just don't know how.