Dissatisfied

I thought I would separate my usual blog stuff from my Station Shorts. I thought I was being smart. But as so often happens, it didn't work out as planned. Robert Burns is rolling in his grave laughing.

This is not an endorsement. However, Blogspot has some really nice features that Geocities at Yahoo seems to have forgotten. The most important one for me is the ability to edit a post. There is an option to edit posts over there. And I did try it. Unfortunately, "Your post could not be saved" was the response in tone if not exact words.

The only way for me to edit was to delete it and repost it. Now, that isn't a horrible thing, except that my stories are based on the previous tale and so … getting them out of order was going to be a problem. So if I needed to edit post 2, I had to delete it and repost it and then delete and repost #3, #4, etc. all the way to the end.

I had some glaring issues and I wanted them corrected. So I did all that. Then I found something else that really needed help. And then I got really disgusted. It isn't supposed to be that difficult.

So I created The Station all over again at Blogspot. Now, this place isn't perfect, either. When I copied and pasted from a Word document into the text window over at Yahoo, the text that I had italicized on my computer stayed in italics in the new window. Not so much here at Blogspot. It will continue to hold onto links okay, but any other type of formatting gets tossed when I paste into the text window.

But at least I can see that I didn't italicize Hotel California or Wizard of Oz and go back and edit the post and have everything stay in a nice neat line. So I am giving up one kind of problem which was driving me to distraction and getting a smaller problem in return.

The other thing that I couldn't understand over at Yahoo was the spacing between paragraphs. They apparently like white space over there. One blank line is really sufficient to the task of paragraph delimitation. I'm not sure why Yahoo insisted on so much space. If I left the spaces in from my own typing then the space was even worse. It was all confusing.

I know that technology is our friend. I even like technology. Most of the time. I like it when I can get it to do what I want done. I'm not so happy with it when it remains perverse, sticking to the program as initiated by some geek behind the screen who didn't know what I wanted or was just messing with me cuz he could and so there. (That was a run-on sentence resulting from high distress and frustration.)

My son wisely informed me to include links to the my stories when sending out reminders that there were new ones put up for reading. So at least I won't have too difficult a time telling people that my site changed. I've changed the link over at My Writers Circle so they can find my stories, too.