so you have to start somewhere

one is never enough.

and another cliche: i fear i'm developing blog mania.

when i blithely punched the create new blog button, i had every intention of making a blog that would allow me to post drafts of my other blog.

sounds so silly when i see it written down. yes, i know you're supposed to be able to save drafts and polish them up before you hit the publish post button, but for someone with a little dyslexia, a lot of hangups, and a.d.d. to boot, it's not always that simple.

here's one scenario:
you've checked and double-checked, previewed 'til the cows come home, know you're positively ready, hit publish post and see that you've not only spelled your own name wrong but that it shows up that way twice because you didn't scroll down far enough to see that your last cut was actually a paste operation. and for some reason, you thought it would be cool to atom feed your site but you don't even really know what that means yet, and it seems that people are actually showing up at your page. maybe it's because of that atom thing or maybe - blush - it was because you just couldn't help but flaunt yourself a little on that mailing list, and here you are not ready for them because while you were learning to blog your brains out you were also cooking supper, and something started boiling over in the kitchen, and oh, okay, so you even forgot you were supposed to be fixing the blankety-blank blog in the first place.

yeah, that'd be me.

and then there are those permalinks that still have me confused. when i see the word, i think of the alaskan tundra. is it just me? permafrost: how i was told that just by walking on parts of it, you could be trampling hundred-year-old willows or birches underfoot and not even know it. who'd ever have thought you could stomp a tree on the tundra in the first place:

tundra 101: tunturia, from the Finnish: treeless plain

so these permalinks - what happens if you stomp on one by over-zealous editing? could we ever know?

anyway, as i was filling all the blanks for the new blog so i wouldn't have to worry about goofing up the other one, it occurred to me that there'll probably never be an interface made that could do that. so i had this blog half-created, and i'd picked the template with the sassy polka-dots for it, and what - i'm just going to toss it out? i think not.

here is a truly wonderful thing about first postings that i've learned in my short history as a blogger:

write a second, and this one falls to the bottom.


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