Let’s go back to yesterday. I’m taking advantage of the kids going to their grandparents for the day so I can handle up on chores, when one of my players sends me a message:
“Just so you know, the website hasn’t been updated since Tuesday.”
I take a moment to consider this message and go online. I had scheduled a post for Saturday to go online around noon that day, and it had been a couple of hours since. But instead of seeing my “Posting Calendar” full for the week and a couple paragraphs of nerdy excitement at seeing my players go through their strategies, I find a list of posts sitting in the “Drafts” section.
As I told the player, I need a gif of someone flipping over fruit stands to properly express my frustration. Now, why is this happening, you may ask? After an hour of troubleshooting, I think I’ve figured it out.
I have a second website set to come online in a few weeks, provided that it is approved by my unions’ local at the next meeting. I’m adding on to that website a little every day, and it had a ton of information in the “Drafts” section, and I had set that up to be automatic, so I would avoid the headache of accidentally publishing pages that could be searchable by my union members. I didn’t want my coworkers, who have heard about the upcoming website, to go searching for it and see a “404” message. That’d be frustrating for them and mildly embarrassing for me.
Apparently, I had set that up via my whole profile, so both websites kept sending posts and pages to “Drafts”.
So, my morning chore for Sunday, which was going to be mowing the play-yard and picking up the kids’ toys, was replaced on the list with fixing this and updating the thing. Will that actually fix the postings problems?
Most likely not, to be honest. For one, as much as it annoys me, the automatic saving to “Drafts” does give me the chance to check over posts for grammatical errors before I post them and let all of you smile at my mindset of “posting too fast in my excitement to write” and give you a semi-professional article of my life to read.
For two, as I’ve said time and time again, technology just doesn’t like me. My Murphionic Field, as Sarah calls it, is extensive and has odd effects on nearby tech. I can somehow turn off the backroom television by waving at it.
It looks cool, but when you’re trying to rewatch “Bleach” and turn the whole damn thing off because you saw a moth and thought it a wasp makes for an annoying evening.
But the things are up! The posts are fixed, and for now, the headache is abated. I have a list of chores I want to get through before I sit back down and write the day away. Time I went about it.
Stay safe out there, readers. Happy Sunday.
-JB Swift
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