Wow, what a week! I can’t begin to imagine how exhausting (but incredibly enjoyable) the weekend will be but even so I have been trying to prepare for the blogathon while my hosting is misbehaving.
The worst was when I tried to get the sidebar in place for the Blogathon. I don’t know if this has happened to anyone before and this is the first time I complain about WordPress (which hurts me deeply as I adore it) but when you make changes to a template that is live the changes don’t take effect until you change the template to another one and then back again! I even deactivated the WP-Cache plugin to make sure that this was not the reason that it was happening. Now, in all fairness I hadn’t attempted to do this on a live template in almost a year but last time I did, it worked! Could this be a bug in the latest version of WordPress? Could it be a server issue? Anyone?
Now, as I am really pressed for time and I have been very busy with work, dates (okay it was just the one) and a special party tonight only for me (I will say more about these tomorrow), I had to plan my every step. Here’s what it looks like:
Tonight:
- Go to bed as early as possible
Tomorrow:
- Wake up at 10 and take the first shower of the day
- Don’t drink coffee
- Go to the super market and get all the junk you can find on the shelves
- Go back home and prepare first post
- If brain is not working drink coffee
- Once the first post is done continue with collecting the information you need
- It’s 2pm. Time to Blog A ‘Thon!
Hopefully I will manage to do this, if I don’t it will be because I will have a hangover… Pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster I don’t…
In the meantime you can still sponsor me!
Update: I posted this in a hurry and forgot to use a title or even edit myself… It’s been fixed now.
Hey Colin,
My name is Andrew and I am going to be your monitor for Blogathon this year. That is right, you are stuck with me for 24 hours. Don’t worry, it won’t be too painful. I will be checking up on you during the night and littering your posts with my comments. I will try to make at least a few of them clever or insightful.
I look forward to checking out all of your insight. See you tomorrow 🙂
-Andrew-
I’m sorry you had to witness that! It must have been the worst first impression ever! I posted it in a hurry and sneakily while at work and didn’t have the time to proof read what I wrote…
It is good to meet you Andrew! Welcome to my blog and I hope you enjoy monitoring therapy in the making. I have a few fun things planned which, hopefully, will keep you entertained.
Here’s to a great blogathon!