Hello world (again) . . .

It's been about four months since I last posted anything here. I was caught up with moving back to Cebu and readjusting and looking for a job and waiting (and seeking) for a place to stay—one I can call my own.

Thank God (or the powers that be), I've gone through that checklist and now's the time to let things settle. Which means I probably will have more time for posting here at blogger.

I didn't abandon sharing short stuff at Facebook though (artwork and pictures and links). Only I don't like Facebook's recent about-face on automatically importing posts from Blogger.

I used to enjoy the Facebook feature that what I post here soon gets imported to my Facebook Notes page but that's no longer possible, thanks to the Google+ vs Facebook war. War's biggest casualties are the ones caught in the crossfire.

Not that the Facebook blog import was perfect—it was crap—HTML tags would appear on the Facebook notes and you could not edit imported notes so I had to recreate my more heavily formatted blog posts on Facebook.

Still, I'm thankful I haven't fully abandoned Blogger. I also briefly tried Tumblr but it keeps shutting me out saying "servers incapacitated" or something so there's not much content in my Tumblr page now.

Anyway, that's the lowdown on me, in case you were wondering if this blog was dead. I was just caught up in this sink or swim life. Sinking ain't too bad either—especially if you're a bottom feeder, but that's a topic for another post.

Ciao!

FOOT (IN MOUTH) NOTE:

This post may no longer appear as an imported Facebook note but it would still appear in my Facebook feeds—thank goodness I subscribed to the Networked Blogs app.

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