Last night, my blogging capacity "died." The Program that I’ve used since I started just stopped working. Throughout the day today, I had two windows open – one watching the Hearing on MSNBC, and another scouring the Internet forums for a solution. I reinstalled this and that, cursed under my breath, lost some hair, and was generally grumpy. Finally tonight, somebody answered one of my cries for help and directed me to a place where someone had figured it out. I won’t go into what it was, but with one key-click in the right spot, it was fixed. It had to do with something delivered with spam.
The last post was written using a text editor, then inserted into the database by hand [as part of testing parts of the system trying to find out what was wrong]. But I learned something in the process. I write a very unread blog, but that doesn’t matter to me very much. I’ve said it is for my mental health, so I can unload my frustration and not carry it around all the time. What I learned today was that watching those Hearings without putting down on paper what I thought was very unsettling. As soon as that last sort of light-weight post was up, I felt less upset.
Here’s the guy who directed you to the right place:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beaucoupkevin/2399532053/
I’ve changed my email . I have written this before but I think you’re site helps me to stay sane. I’m sure there are more people reading your stuff than you realize. I’ve had 3 brain surgeries in the last 4 years and other stuff and my concentrating on what’s hurting our country makes me feel I’m doing my patriotic duty as a citizen of this great country and keeps me busy not thinking about my own health..
Thanks to Abby and Kevin. I was stumped, and just the thought that help was on the way got me going. Thanks also to indieman and red sneakers, the people who figured the problem out. Thanks also to joyhollywood. I don’t think I was lamenting a readership, I was discovering what I suspected all along, that my site helps keep me sane too.