electric mist

oh, the fun

If you really REALLY want to have a bucket o' fun, here's what you do:

1) decide to finally set aside some time to create a little mini-blog for the left-hand column because that would be MUCH easier than changing the template each time.

2) do it when it's late, you're tired, and preferably when your youngest son is in a very bad mood for all sorts of things, and is certain the universe is conspiring completely against him

3) answer the phone in the middle of all of this, talk to husband about grumpy son while you're still setting up the file paths

4) have the grumpy son come in the room to gripe on the phone (with husband) about the crushing universe and then

5) look back at that file path and think, you know, maybe I'm doing this wrong, I'd better delete it and wait until I can ask someone tomorrow

6) select "delete blog" and when the little warning box pops up, think, geez, like who would be stupid enough to do this if they weren't intending on deleting it anyway?

7) press the "okay to delete" button

8) watch the wrong blog -- the MAIN blog -- disappear while the skimpy little not-even-set-up-properly blog remains, quite proudly, as the only blog on your site.

9) shriek. Scare son and husband (who's on the phone). Cry. Consider heavy drugs.

10) Kick something.

11) Consider the swelling foot a reminder to wear shoes next time you blog.

12) Drink. Good wine, beer, liquor, draino... it's all the same.

13) Call Tamar, trying to freak out quietly because son is still on the phone with his dad (who's on a trip), and hear Tamar's sharp intake of breath and know that yes, you really did fuck this up beautifully.

14) Drink some more. Think about running into traffic. Realize there's no traffic outside and know that the universe isn't against your son because it's busy screwing with you right now.

13) IM with Tamar and Diane for an hour to confirm that yes, the blog is really gone.

14) Cry. Drink. Rinse. Repeat.

15) Set up blog all over again and cut and paste each entry back into the blog, fixing the dates, blowing off fixing the times, and realizing that by 3:00 a.m., the old comments may never make it back onto the site.

Posted by toni at February 18, 2004 10:52 AM