A thinking iPad can be very irritating, and I’ve discovered mine has been going way beyond what my wishes would be. As we were experiencing the Pandemic crisis, I became aware that my iPad had that ability.

Kathie and I received ‘the shot’ and one of Kathie’s reactions to the shot was an increase in phlegm and not just tiny amounts but multiple Kleenexes filled with the gross secretions!

In the evenings as we watched re-runs of Hallmark movies Kathie mentioned the fact that she was dealing with huge amounts of phlegm.

That was not news to me as I was watching the Kleenex box contents rapidly being depleted. So, we began discussing the phlegm issue and that’s when my iPad revealed its ability to think.

Post after post went scrolling by advertising what do you think? Yes, medicines designed to control phlegm secretions!

Now once my iPad got that phlegm term in its technological brain it allowed phlegm posts to merrily move across my iPad screen for days at a time!

Phlegm is nauseating anyway and post after post of phlegm got to be too much!

I now fear what other words may be unknowingly spoken as we view our iPads that will trigger other unwanted posts. Words such as vomit, diarrhea, pimple squeezing, hemorrhoids or foot fungus could also produce an unfavorable stream of posts. 🙁

Also, the crooked carrot commercial that is viewed every fifteen minutes on television would not be a word to discuss while using my eavesdropping iPad. Luckily I am unable to remember its scientific name so that anatomical disorder should be safely blocked from being an iPad post.

In discussing this ability of iPads to eavesdrop on its users, others  have shared similar experiences with me. A mention of a tool used in the garage that day will cause advertisements for that very same tool to appear on the iPad.

Supposedly the Trump campaign as well as the Trump Administration had been spied on by other governmental agencies and the opposing party as well. (As reported by Fox News and probably not many other news organizations)

Think of all the iPhones and iPads present in those top- secret governmental meetings having the ability to capture the discussions like my iPad does. That would dwarf the shenanigans of the supposed spies in our government.

Now if there would be some way to encourage the iPad/iPhone to cough up what it knows what an espionage tool we would have! 🙂

Actually the iPad’s ability to listen to and think about our conversations can be a positive tool also.

The iPad helped me out greatly over the last month or so. Let me explain.

I have this unpublished manuscript that I have been contemplating whether I should publish it or not.

I am recovering from a minor setback from my latest children’s book Nature’s Rhyming Riddles. A publishing house in Wyoming took on the task of publishing it with glorious promises.

Well, they did not reach the heights they had promised. Such as no royalties received for the last three years. Ouch! 🙁

I never thought of the state of Wyoming as a home for publishing gurus and over the past three years they have proved me correct.

So you can understand my hesitancy to jump back into the self-publishing game. That would require that I begin a search for a reputable publishing house and once burned my confidence to do that was shaken.

To begin the search for a new publisher requires that I google “print on demand” publisher and then begin the tedious job of researching each publishing house that pops up.

But then my iPad gave me a welcome surprise.

One day as I was surfing my Facebook posts I saw an ad for a publishing house willing to self- publish. So curious I opened it and read information about the publishing house.

What a brilliant move that was as that caused my iPad to put a call out for other self-publishing houses. Before I knew it the self-publishing posts were filling my iPad screen and putting my phlegm advertisements to shame. Yea! 🙂

So for the past several weeks I have been reading about publishing houses that I never knew existed!

The process has changed since my earlier attempts to get a manuscript accepted. When I published my first self-published children’s book “Nature’s Christmas Story” there was no need to see the manuscript.

I just packaged it up and mailed it to the publisher. They would decide whether to publish the manuscript or not.

Fortunately, five manuscripts, now books, were deemed publishable.

Now the publishers invite the author to submit his or her manuscript. I think there are so many authors desiring to self-publish that the publishers can be fussier about the quality and subject matter of the manuscripts.

I submitted my new manuscript to three publishing houses and two of them have offered to publish it.

The book will be called “Say That Again” and it is another rhyming nature book for children.

The publishing house ads are still filling my iPad screen so now it will be decision making time.

What to do? What to do?

I wish I could ask my iPad as it seems to know everything. 🙂

I’m going to end this blog and scroll through a few more publishing house ads. Thanks to my thinking iPad that will be an enjoyable task.

Until next time. 🙂