Time To Hear From You

I agree with Jim - someone had to say it.

I get emails, calls, hear about it on the street, lots of people are reading this, and yet Scott gets no feedback. He is publishing in a void. I try to tell him that he is educating people - on Kafkaism, flags, tides, the French, the fact that some French don't even like the French, etc. And yet, as far as he knows, only Jim is listening.

I get phone calls and emails, not to mention people on the street in our neighborhood, that comment on the blog and how much they are enjoying it. I really heard a lot after Eric left and there was a great void as Scott attempted to find his voice.

My family, and most importantly, my Aunts (thank you Aunt June, Aunt Verna, & Aunt Mert), have followed it religiously. Scott's parents have shared it with their friends , our neighbors who ask after him on a regular basis and have shared it with their friends, some of whom were in the Azores during the war and had fond memories or love northern France, friends of mine from work, some of who know Scott, many who don't, Scott's friends from work(who all know him too well), our friends from Florida, from Michigan, from Portland, from Boston, from Denver, from San Antonio, from California, from Tennesee, and of course from Wisconsin, (you all know who you are!!!). We would be interested to hear from everyone this blog has touched.

I think it is time that Scott heard from his readership. (If no one responds we will know that Jim really is the only one still reading). If you don't know Scott personally, tell how you found him - friend of Diane, parents, neighbor, stumbled on it accidently, whatever.

Now - giving some of you (not you Les, no excuse for you) the benefit of the doubt. It is very confusing to figure out how to post a comment for the very first time. I myself (an I.T. professional of 25 years) posted my first blog comment twice and could not figure out how to delete it.

I have prepared a tutorial for you. In doing so I posted a couple of test comments before I got it right. Once you are set up it is easy, it either knows you automatically or you enter your email address and your password and it knows you.


First time you enter a comment it will ask you for your user id and password. You have to set yourself up with a blogger name. My is Diane, but for this tutorial I am going to set up a blogger account named 'Severance Groupie'. When it asks for your id and password it also says : "No Google Account? Sign up Here".

Click the "Sign Up Here" link and you will get this screen:

It will ask you for your email id. It does not have to be a Google email address, any email address will work, but it does have to be a valid email address.

The reason for this is accountability. No one will be able to see or access your email address, but it prevents spammers or hackers from spreading viruses. When we first set up this blog we said anyone could contribute without signing in. The first day we got a comment that said 'Click Here" for something and it was a virus. By ensuring that everyone who responds to this blog has a legitimate email address it prevents hackers from getting control of the site.

After you enter a legitimate email address, it asks you for a password. Do not use the password for your email account. It is a password only used for this account. Use something easy like Severance, or Scott (or WeLoveDiane!!!). The password does not have to match your email address, it is for the blogger account only.

Finally, enter the name you want to appear when you post your comment. I chose 'Severance Groupie'. So you can see that I entered my email address, gave it a password that was not related to my email account (only valid for google blogging), and gave myself a blogger name. Now type in the funny letters (keeps people from hacking by using computer programs - requires the human eye), and click the acceptance of terms disclaimer - and voila!!! You can now publish as much bad poetry and good commentary as you want.

Next time you come in it will show that you are signed in as ?????. In my case it will be 'Severance Groupie'.

If it does not show that you are signed in, then it will prompt you to sign in. It will ask you for user name and password. Enter your email address for User Id (not your Blogger name) and the password you chose for the blog, then type in the funny letters and hit publish.

For people born after 1980 it is so easy, completely intuitive, but for the rest of us it takes a little experimenting - note my 3 test comments in order to document this.

So please whoever you are, where ever you're at, if you are enjoying these posting - leave Scott a comment. Doesn't have to be funny - just let him know you are there.