I’ll tell you one thing about blogging. It might just look like a person sitting calmly in front of a computer, but in actuality it’s a crazy adrenalin wave of death! LITERALLY.
(Oh, ok. Figuratively.)
For the past 12 hours, this blog has consisted of a blank screen with this riddle stretched across it:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in… /custom_functions.php on line 39
We were like Bilbo Baggins and Gollum, my computer and I, squatting together in the dark for untold hours, trying to solve each other’s riddles so as not to die.
The good news is that I now know how to fix a problem! Now that it’s fixed, of course, it will never again need fixing. Oh well, I’ve learned how to figure out how to solve a problem, and that skill will almost certainly come in handy. (Here’s a hint: ask someone smarter than you.)
I’ve had a number of these crises of late, and they do tend to be helpful in the long run. I broke the site because I was trying to fix something. Having unbroken the site, the thing has also come out fixed. And I became a blog tinker!
Other plans have been swept away by these events, and I’ve already bungled NaBloPoMo by virtue of having no blog on which daily to post.
Anyway, there was definitely a good learning curve built into last night’s crazy adrenalin wave of death. And with that confusing metaphor comes, I guess, the moral of the story.
