I have restarted posting “Notes From My Bunker” on my website, www.patcoakley.com. My bio has a link to signing up for notifications of new posts. The postings will mirror some of my daily Instagram themes, drawings, obsessions, opinions, and images. I have stopped FB posts entirely and I’ll use my Instagram accounts less frequently. This decoupling is a work in progress but the goal is to focus my efforts and whatever talents I have on platforms that don’t have a business plan that is morally bankrupt. The impact on this user is: if I contribute to their bottom line by clicking on products or buying products, benign as they may be, from their platforms, my complicity with their moral bankruptcy is implied. It’s not much but it’s a start. So, on to the new format. This new post recounts my experience with a 2021 rental car. Jesus. Lots has changed in Car-World since 2014. I invite you to sign up to get notified of new postings in the link in my bio. Clearly, Instagram and FB posts are easy and it is not lost on me that this convenience is part of the attraction and the cricket sounds may surround my upgraded posts! I have written on this website since 2008 so there is a plug in that will highlight other posts within each current post. I have 972 posts and I97 podcast episodes in total. What have I noticed? I used to spend a great more time shaping a sentence in the earlier years than I do on Instagram or Facebook. So, in a weird way, this move might be an investment in improving myself and the quality of my posts? Whether anyone will notice or care, I don’t know! So, I hope you sign up! This is actually how I started my online presence in 2008. So, we’ll see if the extra stuff one has to do to post via a website will conquer my craving for convenience. Anyway, going to my sign-up form in the bio is worth the trip even if you don’t sign up. You’ll see why. What can I say? I am an acquired taste. #patcoakley ...
