miscellaneous chatterNovember 18, 2005 7:03 pm

Talk with the Contractor

He says we’re close to being done. I think in contractor-speak, “close”, is relative. If you come here from time to time, you may be getting a bit confused, or feel I’m schitzophrenic. I don’t think I am, but I understand that there may be confusion. I am trying to pick a new template, take the control away from the contractor (my husband), and just do the job myself. Not that he’s not capable…he is, very. But there are many other things demanding his time. So in the mean time, I’ve been back and forth between the first two templates at blogsome, and am headed to the third, I think.

Please do not give up on me. The thought is very stressful.

allison

rants and raves 10:46 am

Continued Malfunction

I write this under extreme duress. A mere 4 months ago, I had only heard of blogs on NPR, and their having something to do with the infamous Dan Rather/Dubbya Military Papers Hoorah, and today, I’m quaking with frustration over the contents of my sidebar. I actually know what a sidebar is. And I cannot control it, at all. It has a life of its own, shifting type size, mocking me as I hit “update template” over and over, hoping, praying, this one will be the one to restore my simple sidebar splendor. Blogroll has joined in the mayhem, refusing to allow me to paste in the coveted code, and adding mysterious and unsuspected changes to my little list, resulting in the dropping many of my fav blogs, and spacing them out in odd and random fashion, or making the type there ginormous. And so today, my children feed themselves, beds remain unmade, the phone unanswered, as I feverishly sit in my jammies, desperately working to restore my baby blog. Without my small space, secure and stylish in cyber-space, I feel naked. Incomplete. Anxious. What once did not exist in my world now rules my world. Nothing can go on as it should til this devastation is healed. Is there a FEMA of the blogosphere? A Red Cross for ill and failing templates? A celebrity song to raise awareness of my plight? What are the proper channels to declare a State of Emergency? Where is the aid and empathy when it is truly needed? Oh, the horror…the horror!