the tumble that follows geek hubris

Listen to how optimistic and happy this post is that I tossed off this morning:

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I completely fraked my blog last night trying to upgrade wordpress, which I was doing in an effort to get my new apple time capsule to work.  It wasn’t letting me upload photos to my blog, which was pretty much a deal breaker, if I couldn’t get it to work.  So, after an hour on the phone with apple, plus more time spent determining that the problem was not my server, nor my web host, nor my security software, all available intel seemed to suggest that the problem was my older version of wordpress making raspberry noises at the shiny new time capsule. Behind its back.  But, alas, alack, in attempting to upgrade, the hounds of blog hell were unleashed and the whole thing was shut down.  And so the quest continued.

But this morning, with the infinite patience of my children who played monster, and chase, and baby, and drew pictures, while I tore my hair and ignored them while spending too much time talking to tech support, I fixed what I broke last night.  Then I got the new wordpress version uploaded, got it running, and the time capsule, is now happy and letting me upload pictures, once again.  Huzzah!

So much work and effort to get essentially what I had before.

Well, not exactly what I had before.  The time capsule, now that it is working, lets my new, sexy macbook get internet all out in the yard, and it backs up all my stuff for me, and thank goodness for that, because one of my problems last night is I had neglected to back up my blog.  Yikes.

But we can all rest easy now.  All is well in geek-dom.  The peripherals are at peace with one another.  And I am switching hats, now, to go and make muffins for my long suffering kiddos.

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[/end happy blog post]

It is a post glowing with geek pride at having fought the dragon and won.  Cute isn’t it?

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

The next thing that happened was that I clicked ‘publish’ to send that happy little post to web-land, and the thing that happened after that was absolutely nothing.  And then some more nothing.  And a bit more nothing after that.

And so the quest continues.

More hair pulling later, I can, obviously if you are reading this, post to my blog and publish, once again–but only from the macbook.  The windows machine is staunchly refusing to have any part of this.  It’s like I’m having an affair (with the mac) and now my long-term spouse (the windows machine) has found out and is not speaking to me.  I know what they say, that threesome’s never work.  But can’t there be an exception that proves the rule?????

Please?

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Now, see?  I thought I would be able to post this because I posted the previous post ‘beeeeeep’ from my mac earlier today.  But look, I just clicked ‘publish’ and NOTHING HAPPENED.  AGAIN.  

So, what we have here is an intermitent MIND FUCK of a technical difficulty.

[panting.]  [breathing into a paper bag.]  [calling my therapist.]

[clicking 'publish' one more time because an intermittent reinforcement schedule is the most powerful behavioral reinforcer there is and I will probably now keep clicking 'publish' until my body shrivels from disuse and Social Services has long since carted off my neglected children.  Let this be a warning to those who think they are masters of their own blog.]

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And see?  It worked.  It published.  And now I will go shoot myself.