It's So Hard To Make Things Easier

I've spent the past few days trying to link up all my social media sites. I thought it might bring more people into the inner circle that gets to see paintings in progress and hear my daily (well, a few times a week at least) rants about life and art. I've already been linking Facebook and Twitter, so I figured adding Google+ should be pretty easy. It was fairly easy to get them all together after a few Google searches. I was happy. Then I thought maybe I should try to get my Tumblr account in the mix. I really like Tumblr but I post less on there than any of my other regular sites. I've spent countless hours trying to get this one figured out. I think I have it, but I need to check in a fwe minutes to see if things are posting correctly yet. The first linked Tumblr message included a long paragraph from Google explaining that this message had been sent to a non-Google+ account and trying to convince someone (me?) to join up to receive updates on Google+ instead of their email inbox. I find all this to be link spinning a web (no pun intended) of connections all over the internet. I also noticed that, although most sites, ie Facebook and Twitter. will let you connect in and out, Google+ can only be connected outwardly. This means the original post must be made there in order to get it out to all. I've put this struggle on hold for a while and sat in front of a new painting on my easel. A few strokes with the brush and all my tensions start to melt.

This is pretty much what I looked like last night around 10 o'clock