Is this where I type my post?
Squirreled away in the corner of my bedroom in the early morning, window open and fan on for air circulation, I work quickly, passionately, without a break, to create a new blog site for myself before the workers arrive. Yes, contractors will arrive at any moment – I will hear the imposing beep, beep, beep of their truck backing up the driveway, doors wrested open, tools dropped to the floor, heavy booted footsteps across the subfloor, followed by the hammers. drills. saws – not quiet versions, but loud nail guns, pneumatic drills, jack hammers, oh my. They are hard at work on our major remodeling, and I am trying to create my own little bit of sanity in the midst of it all. When they arrive, I type madly, holding my breath for when they accidentally or necessarily turn off the power without warning, and this technology pursuit of mine will be severed for the remains of the day.
One day, a couple weeks back, I began to entertain the idea of switching my blog from Blogger to WordPress. Glenda Funk gets most of the credit (blame?) but there were others, as well. Mostly, I had grown so weary of Blogger’s many little frustrations – the way the layout bounced around when I entered text, the way the font size changed when I ‘published,’ the numerous frustrations I and others had with commenting on posts…on and on, the list goes, and I decided to switch over to a blogging platform that I saw so many others using successfully.
I’ve been blogging for years…how hard could it be to switch blogging tools?
Then I got the bright idea to have my own unique domain name – a flight of fancy, to have my own little niche. (https://maureenyoungingram.com) What possessed me to do this? I don’t know.
Wouldn’t this be the perfect pursuit, fun little remedy to the headache of the tools? Me, discovering and toying with new technology, and writing with abandon?
Be careful what you wish for. This little idea has sent me tumbling down the proverbial rabbit hole of technology blather and lingo – hosting, optimizing, linking, caching, SEO, plugins, META descriptions, blocks, insights, what the heck?! Where does one start? What does that mean? What comes first? Where did my draft go? How do I add my photos?
How do I?
How do I?
How do I?!
Where am I?
What is happening?
The “icing on top” of this new learning – the all-too-regular surprise frustration: Oh no! I was just about to figure that out but now I don’t have internet! We’ve lost power again! I take a deep cleansing breath and tell myself – later, later, later, I’ll try to figure it out later.
This is life. Learning in limbo.
I have so many things I wanted to write about and share with you – my summer travels out west, the aches and delights of home remodeling, the wonder of the monarch caterpillars crawling all over the side yard milkweed, to name a few. However, I can’t just yet. I am mired in technological transition.
I have faith that one day soon I will understand all the nuances and how to’s and must do’s of this new blog site, but today is still not yet… baby steps … baby steps … baby steps …
Thank you for visiting my fledgling site…it is a work in progress.
Is this where I type my post?