(SIGH!)

I've just been throught two days and nights of pure hell with Google/blogger! After 'upgrading' to the "new" blogger, (whatever that means), I realized that I'd linked the new version to an invalid email address due to a typo! I'm not a very good typist, but I swear, this was the first time in YEARS that I'd mis-typed my own email address.

Do I need to go through all the steps I went through to get this mess straightened out???? Probably not....most of you can probably already imagine the horrors, the completely useless hlep sections, the question and answer sections that never seem to be specific enough, or that always seem to stop just short of your particular problem! I sent off emails, posted on blogger's help section, tried changing the password....nothing.

Adding to the stress was the fear that by merely deleting the account with the wrong email address I would also lose the entire blog in the process! Changing the wrong email address to the right email address wasn't possible, since when I tried that tact I was told that email address was already in use. YES! I KNOW THAT! IT'S ME YOU STUPID PROGRAM!!!! I JUST MADE A TYPO!!!!!

Once I finally received a reply from Google/blogger, they DID tell me to delete the account with the correct address, then edit the other account, changing the email address back to it's correct form. Reasonably sure I could follow the simple directions, I made the changes.....AND STILL COULDN'T LOG-IN TO MY BLOGGER ACCOUNT!!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I checked with the help forum on blogger, and the one thing everyone said was "don't delete your account"! Oh shit, had I made the situation even worse by following the directions?????

And then all my Google pages started showing up in Italian! I checked to make sure the default language was in English...it was....I re-set it again to be sure....changed the passwork yet again...re-read the help forums......

And then my blog didn't load when I tried to click on it from a link, and I thought "Uh oh, this is it! I've lost the blog and THAT'S the reason I can't log in...it doesn't exist anymore!!!" So then I did a search on blogger to find my blog....and it wasn't there. there were links to my blog, quotes from my blog, references to my blog....but no blog!

More emails to blogger....LOTS of CAPITAL LETTERS AND EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!! LOTS of "PLEASE's" and "HELPs"....more checking with the log in pages of both blogger and Google....still Italian....okay, now I think it's back to English....back to the Google page to check my account...click on the bloger icon once again......

and here I was, back into blogger! Back to my blog! Where had it been? What made it go away......what made it come back?? Will it last? will I still be able to get into it tomorrow? Should I just stay logged in 24/7 just in case?

This was why I hadn't switched to the 'new' version of blogger when it was still in the beta stage. After a recommendaton from a friend, who told me the picture posting was much more reliable, and after seeing that it wasn't beta anymore, I took the plunge....and certainly lived to regret it!

I'm really not good with change, especially this type of change. My knowledge of computers is limited...I know how to do what I need to do...how to do the stuff I've always done. Learning a new way, a 'better' way isn't easy for me, and I usually fight the change as long as possible.

It's the same way with other forms of technology...like when you get the television, VCR, DVD player, surround system AND the satellite system all hooked up and working correctly. Sure, it takes a few tries to figure out how to get the surround sound to run while using the VCR. or how to switch over from the DVD player, or, the hardest...how to record something in the middle of the night! Waking up and wondering...did I really tape the right channel at the right time??? Learning to coordiante all those remotes can be a nightmare.....push just ONE button out of sequence and you're completely screwed.

Screwed pretty much describes how I felt about this change with blogger....I just KNEW better than to change and I did it anyway! What was I thinking????

Anyway, for at least this one post, I'm using the new blogger format. Since I"m not even posting a picture it all seems rather pointless right now, and quite frankly I'm exhausted from all the stress, but I guess (hope) I've taken yet another baby step forward in technology. It's a bit frustrating not really knowing what I did or how I did it. In the end I guess I really didn't do anything. There was probably just some glitch in the system and some wonderful computer geek somewhere is high-fiving it because he finally got everything fixed!