beta means bad

yeah, the switch to beta-blogger kicked my ass. in my rush to convert some of my blogs to beta (in order to get labels, instant publishing, some other fun things), i forgot to follow the first law of blogging. "there is always try before do." i dove into beta before i made sure that my blog could FTP correctly to my server.

guess what? the conversion didn't work. there i sat, screwed, unable to update, and dreadfully panicked. it brought me back to the good old days of blogger when things would constantly be in a state of chaos. it occured to me mid-panic that nobody would miss my five minutes of not updating, but i still felt the pressure to at least be able to post. just in case.

despite my seemingly solid grasp on all things computer-related, i have no idea how to really make anything work. there's a reason i didn't start to get into web pages and blogging until user-friendly interfaces were widely available. i'm not really a computer/tech geek, i just play one on aim. so, i exhausted all of my usual tech help channels and had to just pray that blogger would fix itself.

this is how faith works i guess. you jump, you panic, you wait for relief and cling to the hope that things will work out in the end. a few days later, here i am, blogging again. disaster averted; lucky stars and garters thanked. i guess at the base of things, i am religious.