It has been a trying week, where technology is concerned. On Saturday, one of my posts published itself from WordPress 5 times. I wrote brand new content to replace four of them, so I wouldn’t get flagged, or worse.
Then I refreshed the original story on WordPress, and it over-wrote one of the new ones. I hadn’t kept a draft, so I had to rewrite the replacement post.
After that I wrote two other new posts, and neither of them posted to my Steemit blog, so I had to manually copy them over. Ugh.
That was the day I accidentally dumped a full glass of water on my computer, which would actually have made a hilarious video. Have you ever seen a laptop pee? (I did dry it out and it recovered later!)
Anyway, I am hopeful that my WordPress problems are fixed, but I will have to do another test post to find out.
And that brings me to tonight. I’ve come down with a cold, so I am not feeling great. I’m also on deadlines and working 50- to 60-hour weeks. But I got as many steps in as I could before my deadline of 10 minutes to midnight when I write a short bit on Actifit and post my steps. So I wrote it, but it wouldn’t post. After the first try, during which I had a spinny thing letting me know it was trying to post, I got a message that the server had timed out. I quickly tried again, as it was now 11:59, and while the spinny thing spun again, my step counter reset to zero. Which means I lost my ability to record my steps and get my Actifit tokens for the day.
Poop!!
That said, I have discovered there is only one useful response when life goes haywire. And that is to shrug off the stupidity of the stupid stuff and think about the things I’m grateful for instead.
I think sometimes things get out of balance, and if you put your energy into what is going wrong, it creates more of the same. So. I’m going to climb under my covers now and count my blessings, knowing it will all look much rosier in the morning.
Or at least that is the happy bedtime story I am telling myself. The sun will come out tomorrow! You bet your bottom dollar!
Over and out.
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Don't get sick, @jayna! And take care of your notebook, it will still come in handy to write your wonderful stories : )
Thank you, @yurche! I'm feeling better already. I usually don't catch a cold for very long!
The grateful outlook is a great one to have. Sometimes it’s so hard to take that route or see things that way when things aren’t going as planned.
I do hope you feel better.
Thank you, friend!!
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Anytime my dear!
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Every day will be different. Some better or worst than others. But no matter how challenging it might be - let's get up and live it through. The miracle of life, and its curse. All can make you stronger, better and still the very precious 'thing' in this world. Keep warm! Sending lots of positive energy your way 😊
Positive energy received! Thank you, @alexazapiec. It really is important to keep perspective. I am reminded at times like these that there are many people in the world struggling to survive real crises — war, famine, terrorism, poverty. My problems are minuscule and I am blessed! Thank you for your thoughtful comment.
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