Day 13-20 ~ INTERLUDE ~ a week of overload

The past week has been overwhelming on a number of levels in a range of my daily activities. Inevitably during a NaPoWriMo, one gets a period of just keeping your head above water & this was it for me.

I wrote every day, that wasn’t the issue. But I could never find time to upload what had been written. Particularly because Monday & Tuesday being replacement poems for the Saturday/Sunday poems which didn’t adhere to the pattern I had hoped to maintain. Foolish or otherwise, that’s what I wanted to try & achieve. But because the Case Studies require even extra preparation (being laid out as they are in a graphic design program first & then screenshotted into a pic so their format can fit the way they’re designed which WordPress is incapable of replicating directly into their code) I was never quite able to catch up until yesterday/today when I’ve finally got all 7 complete, queued up** & ready to post one after the other.

I’ve joked previously that writing the poem is the easy part, the time consuming bit is actually formatting/posting/uploading it to my blog, Facebook etc …

** I’ve scheduled one an hour till I’m caught up

~ interregnum ~

For reasons known only to WordPress, I have not been able to upload photos to my blog since April 9.

This has been extremely frustrating as I am constantly being told I am most likely offline — even as I am capable of doing a wide range of other internet based activity (including searching why WordPress photos are not loading, to no avail).

It has caused no end of swearing, cursing & full-on hissy fits which have upset my poor pooch immensely who doesn’t understand why I’m shouting at the stoopid light box. (Not that he really gets why I spend so much time staring at it when I could be throwing a ball, taking him for a walk, or best of all, feeding him treats.)

However, that said, I still have been writing a new poem every day; even if I haven’t been able to load them.

Finally today, for some reason the curse has lifted, & I have been able to upload everything. So I am spending the next couple of hours trying to unclog the backlog.

Thanks for your patience.

OMFG. Not again. My life for the past X days.

Quick links to 7 days of posts.

~ Interlude ~

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Been having a few issues with my computer this week. 2 hours Saturday night trying to prepare blog page, over 3 hours last night. Running slow, loading slow, despite turning off/restarting, clearing stuff off to try & make it run faster. Almost felt like giving up & abandoning NaPoWriMo this year. The poems are being written okay, just getting them onto WP has been a headache. But then, something strange happened. Woke up this morning, fired up the old boy … & everything seems to be working fine. So who knows. Maybe it just didn’t wanna work on the week end.

So the past three days’ worth of poems will now follow in quick catch-up succession (cross fingers) …