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Have You Ever Pushed a Button and Watched Years of Hard Work and Love Self-destruct?

You may notice some major changes in the look of my blog today. Although I've wanted to update for quite a while, this update was the result of a major F . . .  Well, lets just call it a boo boo and leave it at that.

I pushed the wrong button and all h . . . Well, my blog changed into something pink and bizarre. After a while I was able to reinstall the original template, only to find that my links and widgets were completely gone. 

But wait. There's more! Not content with a small . . . boo boo . . . I was able to make it much, much worse. When I followed Blogger's instructions to reinstate my back-up, a white page, full of what I can only surmise was code, came up in place of the entire blog.

Desperate at the complete loss of three year's work, I turned to my hero - my lover, best friend, and husband. You know, my own private superhero. In just a few minutes he had my blog up, with a new but working template that I was able to customize.

This isn't the first time he's saved my bacon.

He can fix anything.

And believe me, after more than twenty years together, he's had plenty of practice! 

So this post is for him.

Thank you, my love, for never shying away from the challenge.

UH OH.

-14 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Poor (Failure) Take the test!

ON THURSDAY'S FACEBOOK OUTAGE

It had been a few days since I last checked my account, 

and I didn't even realize Facebook was down. 

I only have it as a convenient way to communicate 

with relatives on the other coast so I forget about it for long periods of time.

I think it was hilarious though,

that the drama that was the Facebook outage, played out on Twitter. 

I confess, I only found out about it from a blog, though. 

How's that for the interdependence of platforms?!

Facebook posted their updates, explanations, and apologies on twitter. And of course, the Facebook community took full advantage of the opportunity to stream jokes which were 

re-tweeted by the hundreds.

@MetsMerized:"Facebook is down! Employee productivity skyrockets, rioting reported in major cities, USA climbs out of 6-year recession"

@alqaeda:#facebook is down. Not sure if we did that, but we should claim credit anyway. Hitting the infidels where it hurts, etc

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