Finally!

By Cheryl Henderson -
I decided that I needed to do a blog as a way to keep my writing skills from getting rusty. But, it has been a struggle. You'd think that I'd be able to find 10 minutes to jot down a few thoughts before I recommenced (is that a real word?) running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

But nooooo that would be too easy. First of all, I couldn't even log into my own blog. Each time I tried to login I was told that my email address was unknown. So, I played the retrieve the password game and finally got in. (And by the way, I'm actually quite good with computers, so this was frustrating on many levels.) Then I set up the blog and play with the graphical backgrounds. By the time all of this was done I was tired and my 10 month old was waking up to eat, so I logged out.

But when next I tried to put a few thoughts together I got the same error message when I tried to login to the blog. So, there goes another 10 minutes lost for foolishness. (I've set the auto login on my browser -- now let's see it deny me!) But at least I'm finally here. Now maybe next time I can write something interesting instead of just ranting about technology and its many vagaries.

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