A bouquet of black-eyed susans to brighten my followers' day. -- Photo by Pat Bean
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Travels With Maggie
Dookie … Dookie … Dookie. That’s the g-rated version of my favorite S word. You know, the stuff that smells as bad as a skunk.
But it was the S-word I said several times yesterday, loud enough for Maggie to give me a quizzical look, when I couldn’t get my blog to post.
And a special rose to all those who nominated me for a blog award. Thank you. -- Photo by Pat Bean
My computer screen kept telling me there was an error on the page. That in itself was only worth a few dookies. It was while I was randomly pushing buttons to solve the problem and accidentally deleted two posts – the swan and the Henry Ford ones – that caused me to revert to screaming out the S-word. Maggie sat up on that exclamation.
It took me about three hours of fiddling before I finally got yesterday’s blog to post. The error, which was finally corrected, was nothing more than a wrong link for my Bean’s Pat. Why in the dookie didn’t the computer simply tell me that? I mean if it knew there was an error, surely it knew what it was.
Or am I giving my geeky, top-of-the-line computer to which I’m addicted, and which has more power than was used to take man to the moon and back, too much credit.?
Meanwhile, since I try to fill my blog with positives – because there’s already too much negatives in this crazy world we live in – I’m now going to mention that my readers have given me some awards that I failed to mention in a timely manner.
My grandmother told me never to brag about myself, but I think she was wrong. I think it’s OK to now and then give ourselves a personal pat on the back for a well-done achievement, just so long as we don’t get in the habit of playing one-upmanship.
The awards include: Three nominations for Versatile Blogger, a Kreativ Blogger award, and a Lamplighter Award. I must have done something right because they all came in the space of two days, overwhelming me. In defense, I flagged the notifications and then promptly forgot about them.
Finding them at the bottom of my e-mail messages (I was cleaning out my mailbox while trying to figure out how to solve my blog-posting problem) was the bright point of my dookie-S-word yesterday. Each of the nominators, if they haven’t already, will eventually receive a Bean’s Pat, because I think their blogs are great, too.
Now does anybody know how to recover deleted WordPress posts and put them back in the order they belong?
Bean’s Pat: http://lavenderdragonfly.wordpress.com/ Great blog of quotes to live by.
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Hi,
It can get frustrating when something just isn’t going right with the computer. I had to laugh as I have thought the same thing about the error message, why doesn’t the computer just tell me what the error may be. 😀
I love your rose very nice.
I’m glad I made you laugh. I always feel better when somebody does the same for me. And glad you liked the rose, too.
Keep writing … Pat Bean https://patbean.wordpress.com
Congratulations on your awards! you and your blog truly deserve them. I enjoy traveling vicariously to the awesome places you visit.
Congrats on your awards, Pat! It’s good to bask in the light of you, that’s where you bloom best. Since I blog from a Nook Tablet and Ipod I have no advice about your geeky computer, but your post made me smile. Then, Pat I reached the bottom and found the link to my blog, thank you! May all the glorious blessings you give return on winds wings of Love&Light… Dj
Computer issues stress me out. I get all tense and nervous, and it never fails that it happens during a time that I have to be running out the door in two minutes and be gone all day. So, then it’s weighing on my mind!
I’m glad that you got it to work, and I wish I knew how to help you recover the deleted posts. Did you look in your trash bin on your dashboard? I think deleted posts go in there. Trash is located towards the top near the spam alert-y thing. Check your trash and if they’re in there, see if you can un-trash them?!
That’s about all I know to get you started…good luck!
Thanks for the empathy. No trash bin that I could find. I’ll either have to suck it up, or repost them. I write my posts in my computer journal then copy them it into wordpress where I add the photos.