This has become a joke

So I’m starting my third week at work and my admin account is still fubarred.  Still doesn’t work properly.  That’s one thing.  I setup my late 2013 MacBook Pro yesterday, installed the new operating system and signed up for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC.  I upgraded my Apple online storage back to 2TB.  I have about 6TB of photos on an external drive that I want to back up onto the Apple storage plan.  I doubt I’ll be able to put all of that photography on there.  I want to keep using just my 2018 Apple iPad Pro.

I am really not in a good mood today.  I created a Facebook account temporarily today.  Creeped my ex.  Learned my dog had died back in November 2018.  It was a golden lab we got back in 2009.  It was only 9 years old.  Most labs, if you take care of them live to 12-14 years old.  So Stella, died fairly young which pissed me off.  She died about 3-4 years too young.

In all honesty, I missed the dog more than I miss my ex wife.  I need to get the F out of Ontario.  Honestly.

Not having social media

I have no social media to advertise my stock photography.  No Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter.  They’re all pretty useless as far as I’m concerned.  They’re all full of fake news, frauds, con artists etc.  Facebook pretty much spies on you 24/7 and sells your data to pretty much everyone.  Google is censoring everyone who they disagree with.  If you have wrong thought, you are pretty much banned and making any money on their platform.  I come from a communist country and this is exactly how the communists acted.  Put everyone who disagreed with them in reeducation camps or goulash.  Patrion, PayPal are pretty much the same.  All of these California type oligarchy, communist, crony capitalist are all the same.  You and I are just peons in their little game.

No social media

So I basically shuttered all my social media accounts a few months back.  Not that I was ever on Instagram, Twitter for long.  I was on Facebook for a long time but about two months ago, I closed my Facebook account for good.  Of all the “friends” I had on there, only two noticed.  Only two besides my girlfriend and her sister.  No one else noticed except for a photography friend and one guy that I worked with and remained friends with since 2014.  But people I’ve known since high school and college did not notice.  I don’t think any of them cared.  We didn’t talk daily, weekly or even once a month.  A few I’d talk to maybe a few times every couple of months but other than that.  No phone calls, no texts, no emails.

I’ve also noticed that since I’ve shuttered my Facebook account, I’m getting less and less job offers for photography and my full time IT job.  My day job as a matter of fact.  The red tape in government now, especially in Canada is amazingly bad.  A decision that could take half an hour now takes weeks, if not months.  As an example, I was notified a month ago that a company submitted my resume for a position that I’m extremely capable of doing.  My resume has wast on someones desk in Procurement for a month now.  The company cannot get a hold of the person in procurement for a status update.  Apparently my resume has been under review for that month.  Now, my resume is about 4 pages long.  I can read 4 pages in a few minutes.  This should take about 10-15 minutes for review.  Maybe half an hour to an hour max.  But four plus weeks.  I tell you, when people tell you government is inept, believe them.  Ninety five percent of the people working for government do not live in the real world where results matter.  When I have a client, I communicate daily with them.  If I run into any trouble, I let them know and most people understand.  Governments are just inept and they will fall under their own crushing weight and mismanagement.  

No more Parc Omega

After today, I am not planning on going to Parc Omega any time soon.  Lousy customer service, over priced and lack of photographic opportunity.  The animals were inactive today for the very first time.  The wolves and coyotes were sleeping all day.  I've been to the Timber wolves twice since they've moved them from one en-closer to another.  There are physically no angles to photograph the timber wolves at all.  You either have glass or fencing in front of you.  You also have little kids pushing in front of you and the parents aren't any better.  

Parc Omega has increased their prices on admission as well.  The food portions are small and extremely over priced.  Five dollars for a hot dog.  Three dollars for a warm pop.  It's almost like going on vacation in Cuba.  I've been going there for almost eleven years now and I've found the last four years, the photographic opportunities have been cut by seventy five percent.  The fences are high and the animals seem not to be as healthy as they used to be.  They are not as accessible as they once were.  My Shutterstock portfolio is mainly animals/nature shots.  Some of the photos and videos are my best sellers.  I think it's time I start photographing another subject.

Apple products

Don't even bother buying an Apple computer.  Any Apple computer.  They are overpriced and outdated.  Their phones are ok.  Their phones are the only product they're physically updating with new hardware.

 

I have a 2013 MacBook Pro and a 2015 iMac.  Those are the last Apple computers I will ever buy.  My next computer will be a Linux based laptop.  I cannot stand Windows 10.  It's slow and clunky on any hardware. 

 

Linux is the only way to go as an operating system.  Apple hardware is outdated and overpriced.  I like the Apple O/S but from the YouTube videos I've been watching with the Intel i9 processors over heat in such a slim device as the MacBook Pro.

 

The new MacBook Pros lack any viable ports unless you want to live the dongle life.  A dongle for your hard drives, Ethernet or SD cards.  No thanks.  Just stay away from Apple computers.  Apple is now solely an IOS hardware maker.

Edit:  If people buy this, they have more money than brains.  $1999 for a damn phone.  A phone!!!!!!  Something that is outdated the day you buy it and if you drop it and break the screen, you're out $2000 before taxes.