When a post is not a post!

My mind doesn’t half wander at times. Not only does my mind wander, but sometimes I actually wander myself. One thing will lead into another, and before long I find myself doing something completely different as to what I intended to do in the first place. One moment, I’m thinking of writing my next post, and the next thing I’m trying all sorts of things to try and get myself to be able to write my post.

I’m having a few problems accessing WordPress this evening, which is OK in itself, only I have signed up to the Postaday Challenge. What if I can’t add a post before midnight? What if I fail in my task? Deep breaths. Calm down…

But the clock is ticking. The countdown has begun.

First things first. Do as it says on their technical help page. Clear my browsing history. I use Google Chrome, and when I look ‘under the hood’ (I’m getting really good with this Techno Speak). I am offered a choice of when I would like to clear the history from: the last hour, day, week, four weeks or the beginning of time. I select the beginning of time. Within seconds, my browsing history is deleted.

I click back onto my WordPress dashboard, and get the same message about something going wrong. It isn’t me then.

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.

I click on my little visitor’s map icon, and instead of seeing my map with all of the orange coloured dots all over the place, I see a pale yellow square advising that my version of Java is out of date, and I need to plug in another version. So, I select the option to get the new version to plug in and download that. My screen freezes after the download. I have to close my Google Chrome browser, and reopen it again. At last! I can see my orange dots! First job completed.

I return to my dashboard, and still get ‘oops’. Oh no!

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.

I decide to click on my email – my web-based email rather than my normal email (just in case). I expect to hear Joanna Lumley advising me that I have mail. I don’t hear her. I have no mail.

I try my WordPress site again. I have now been logged out completely, and can’t even access the page for me to log in again. 504 Gateway error… OH NO!

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.

I decide to try to access the lottery site, so I can play for tomorrow’s draws. I open up a new window in Chrome, and – Oh no! – I’ve deleted all of my browsing history. The pages I regularly visit aren’t there. I can’t even blame them gremlins – it’s all my doing! So, I manually search for the site and buy my tickets that way. It took all of three seconds longer. But, time is of the essence!

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.

I check my regular emails. I have new emails here, but no Joanna Lumley. She doesn’t let me know about emails in this system… I just receive a bleep. Well, it’s more of a Boodeep sound, but you know what I mean.

I have a brainwave! A brainstorm! A brainbox! A branflake! An idea! I try Internet Explorer to try to access my WordPress dashboard. I’m logged in to my site here, so there’s a start, but I get the systems error message there when I try to get to my dashboard too. Oh no once again.

Let me try Firefox! Yes. That will work! No, it won’t! I get the same error there as well. At least this proves that the problem isn’t with my computer. I’ve tried three different browsers, and get the same problem with all of them. Well, sort of.

I’m glad that I started to use this Live Writer thingy. Here I can type my post and then add it to my blog when it comes back up. OH NO! MY POST!!! I’m just waffling aimlessly here about my computer problems, and the time is counting down to the end of the day. I’m going to have to post this. Eek! Calm down! Calm down!

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.

So, I have now gone all around the houses. Probably all around England – no Europe – no the World – to try to post this post, which is about me going all around the world to post the post. Which may or may not be posted. And is, yet again, a post about nothing. Much ado about nothing.

And it really will be a post about nothing if I don’t post before midnight. I mean, it won’t be a post about nothing. A double negative. It won’t be a post, full stop. Have I failed in my Postaday challenge? The countdown continues…