Thursday, May 20, 2010

two, two, two blogs in one!

so today . . . i am soooo frustrated!

i just spent the last half hour writing a quick blog about being frustrated. then in an instant, i somehow hit a key that highlighted all the text and replaced it with the letter "c." i tried to go back to the place where i had saved it last, but instead hit the button TO PUBLISH IT!!! thus, i was left with a blog that looked like this:

c

yep. that is what posted. everything i had written was gone. deleted. swept off my computer screen and out into oblivion.

and it was a really good blog too.

so now i am starting over. this new version will not be as perfect as the one i deleted, and now i have to stay up longer. and i was just ready to crawl under the covers with my book! but i will try to retrieve as much as i can from the quagmire i like to call my brain . . .

so today . . . i am soooo frustrated!

i have been trying to post video on my blog for the last week. i just can't make it happen! and i don't understand why, because i have successfully done it before. well, maybe not successfully, because the audio was way ahead of the video. but i think i can blame that on my computer, since the video was taken with my webcam.

the video i posted a few months ago had just the opposite problem--the audio was behind the video. of course, that video was shot with my phone. but that is not my biggest problem. my biggest problem is that now i can't get any video at all to post!

i don't understand it. i have checked and double checked my videos, and they fall into the time and format parameters allowed by blogger. they just will not load. i have tried everything i can think of. it is starting to really annoy me . . .

. . . because here is what is happening. i find myself thinking, "oh that would make a cute video for my blog . . . " and then i remember that i can't post video. it is very odd. i am having trouble thinking bloggy thoughts without also thinking video thoughts.

and i don't understand that either, because i hate it when bloggers post video. really, seriously hate it! i read a lot of blogs--in fact, sometimes i get sucked into the muddy pit of clicking and reading everything that is hyper-linked. it can take days to get back to where i started, if i am not careful! but if i run into a video, i am immediately stopped in my tracks. usually i am catching up on my blog reading when i have a few free minutes at school, or while i am watching tv, so i am reading with the sound off. (which should not be a problem, since blogs are meant to be read!) and you know, a blog video without the sound is usually meaningless. this messes up my whole system! i either have to wait until i can turn the sound on to proceed, or (gasp!) skip it. neither of these is a good option for someone who seems to have mildly ocd tendencies. and yet, now that i can't do it, all i can think about is posting videos!

i need to just stop it! this is not a vlog, after all--it is a blog. that means writing and reading, not talking and video. and besides, i am fairly sure that with my perverse nature, once i figure out how to post video, my need to do it will disappear. yes, i am sorry to say, i am that person . . .

but the truth is, there are some things that just cannot be conveyed accurately in words alone. for example, my school kids singing. i can tell you all about it, but until you hear their little voices and watch their goofy antics, you will not understand why they make me laugh.

so i will keep working on it. maybe this weekend i will get it figured out. there must be a trick to it that is eluding me . . .

4 comments:

Diandra Ann said...

every heard of ctrl z? The first thing you should do when you accidently hit something to replace your blog with "c" is hold down the "ctrl" key and hit z. It will undo what you did.

Just sayin.

Jewelielyn said...

diandra, you are so smart!! i've heard of ctrl+z, but i've never used it. i guess i think of it as undoing something i don't want, instead of restoring something i accidentally deleted. but now that you say that, i can see how it would have worked . . . maybe next time. because you know, there WILL be a next time . . .

mom said...

Where's James the computer brain?

Jewelielyn said...

i've thought about asking james the computer brain. but i think this is a problem with the blog site, not the computer. although, if i can't get it figured out soon, i will let him give it try.