“Step away from the computer, please!”

“Up the creek yet again!” I said regarding PhotoBucket®, my digital photo service.
“The 404 message: ‘Unable to process your browser’s request.’
Give ‘em a night to get their act together, and maybe I can use PhotoBucket tomorrow morning.”
I store all my blog-pictures at PhotoBucket, accessed to BlogSpot® by http-tag. I have hundreds, but only 12% usage. My pictures are small — 72 pixels-per-inch, 5.597 inches wide.
5.597 inches is the width of this blog column. Anything larger steps on my blurb at right. They also have to be 72 ppi = screen-rez.
My use of PhotoBucket goes back years. My wife (deceased) and I discovered it when BlogSpot’s picture app stopped working — perhaps I maxxed it.
An all-knowing friend tells me PhotoBucket is evil; the fact I use ‘em advances evil.
As if some computer apps aren’t evil. In my humble opinion, the most evil of all is Google. They wanna take over the entire known universe. Bumper-to-bumper at 80 mph on Interstate-5 in self-driving cars while we blithely Facebook our Googlephones.
Nevertheless, PhotoBucket is gettin’ exasperatin’. Seems it hangs once a week, often twice.
I wonder if other digital photo services bomb as often.
I don’t look forward to switching. I no longer have a wife to help me = my cheering section.
I’d be in a dreadful funk, and she’d say “try this.”
Since it was interesting, I would, and usually end up solving the hairball myself.
Now I no longer have that. I hafta surmise solutions on my own; which often happens mowing or walking my dog.
(“Step away from the computer, please!”)

• This is a BlogSpot blog.
• My wife of over 44 years died of cancer April 17th, 2012. I miss her immensely. Best friend I ever had, and after my childhood I sure needed one. She actually liked me.
• PhotoBucket is still not 100% fixed — but slowly getting there.