sick day

[dragonlady7]

Firstly: I want to try this SignalBoost Bookmarklet but I am running up hard against having no fucking idea how to do it. This is the kind of frustrating basic-life-skills thing that makes me feel really stupid. It says, "Make a new bookmark, and paste in the following code as the URL." ... When I go to make a bookmark, the only option I have in the "Bookmarks" menu is "bookmark this page". There's nowhere for me to paste a URL. I'm using Chrome on a Mac.
So I could bookmark the page that's the post about the bookmarklet, or I could bookmark a new tab and put the URL in the description, but I can't find any fucking way to edit the actual URL of a bookmark. I guess you can... edit a bookmark you've already made? So I could just edit any random bookmark and make it be this instead? but the whole code? is that... what is that? And is there actually a way to just "new->bookmark->put URL in" or does everyone just bookmark random shit and then edit it to make it be a thing you actually want? I don't understand this at all.
Is this the time to confess that I haven't used the bookmarks function on my web browser since about 2010, when I bookmarked a shitload of pages I've never visited since, and now I have literally hundreds of dead links as bookmarks? I just type in pages I want, or leave them open in tabs. I have windows of tabs that have been open for literally years, especially since Chrome is so good at restoring lost sessions; some of these tabs have been open since before I fried and replace almost everything on this computer two years ago. Yeah, Chrome restored them! Great.

So it's highly likely that whatever the fuck a "bookmarklet" is, is not something that is for me. That's cool! I'll just... not do that, I guess.

All of that aside, I was going to link to this post about shitposting (it's a shitpost poll) because I thought it was funny, and I was going to comment on how my urge is to put shitposty stuff in the subject lines of posts but that only really hurts me later when I'm trying to find one of my old entries about something, because I'm also shit at tagging and unlikely to ever come up with a usable system for it. It is highly likely that tagging for organization is also just not a thing that is for me, because I also can't do it! We have to be realistic about our limitations, in this life, you see.

I'm taking a fucking sick day today, because it is 11 degrees out, will have a high of 14, the sidewalks are certainly still icy, and I still feel fucked-up from whatever made me so dizzy yesterday. Clearly my ability to cope is at a similarly low ebb. Maybe I'll treat myself and buy the new T. Kingfisher book, and maybe I won't. I get that it's only $6 and so it's literally half the price of buying myself lunch, but somehow I'm just feeling fucked-up about money lately and it seems like. Impossible. IDK! Sometimes we interrogate these things and sometimes we just leave them alone because we have to be realistic about our limitations. Look, I found a theme.

Maybe I'll take a few moments today to make myself literally any icons, since my LJ ones are clearly long gone and I have forgotten how they're supposed to work. Ha, initially that was what I was going to do in this space, make a hopeful and pleasant little list of things I could do with my recuperation day, but no, I spent the whole thing bitching about not understanding basic technology instead, because I am a treasure.

Comments

[unicornduke]

I've found I can only bookmark a few things: stuff I check every day and things I want to buy. That's it. I used to do more, especially when I was super into fandom but it turns out it was more of an obsessive thing that wasn't really good for me (digital hoarding?).

You should buy the book! It would be an excellent book for a sick day. I hope you feel better soon!

[dragonlady7]

Hmph, I squandered my sick day by running errands and doing laundry and cooking all day. I didn't even get a chance to think about reading!! Maybe this weekend though.

I feel better but I'm still not quite right, which is frustrating; there's no justification to stay home, in that case. Bummer. I might treat myself nice with a drive to work, but then, I might not, it's gonna be a balmy 33 tomorrow so i might as well walk.

[unicornduke]

Awww too bad you didn't have a lay around day.

[musesfool]

In Chrome, once you've got the little bookmark dialogue open, it should have a "More" button that you click on to get to a place where you can edit the bookmark's URL - that's where you paste in all the javascript from the little box, and it should put it on your bookmark bar (and give it a name like "signal boost" or whatever) so if you have that visible, you should just be able to click on it when you want to use it.

I have similar things to save stuff to Pinboard and I used to have one to convert LJ pages to ?style=mine back in the day.

[dragonlady7]

I'll have to try it again. I just got so annoyed and bewildered.
I'm having an easy-to-annoy day, though; I think I'll put it off and try tomorrow.

Thanks for the overview, though, and the reassurance!

[shy_magpie]

it took me ages in firefox and someone already told me you have to make a bookmark to something else then edit it. On the plus side this is the hardest part. Once you have it on your tool bar just open the post, highlight what you want to quote and click the bookmarklet.