Yikes!

People need trouble- - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy. ~William Faulkner

I have been plinking along as a newbie in the blogosphere. I was proud when I could correct my spelling errors. Learning to upload a photo was exciting. I learned how to add music to my blog. I found some cool things to put on my side bar. I learned how to add links in html to the template. Other than blogger being down for maintenance or having other problems I was doing fine.

Until….I went to add a link to my blog yesterday. I clicked the save changes button. I waited 15 minutes. The next thing that happened was my template was gone! All I got when I opened my blog was a black page with It’s a Raggedy Life in a square on top. I went to the edit post list. It showed my posts were there. When I clicked on the view button for the post I got the same black page as when I opened my blog to view it. I went back to the dashboard. I started a new blog. I saved the template from the new blog. I went back to my old blog and did a copy paste to my template. I got my profile back and my posts.

I read a post not long ago and I do not remember who you are. You wrote about printing your blogs and saving them in three ring binders. You also said in case any one ever wanted to know what their Grandma was about they could read them. I may not have that exactly right but something along those lines. I had never tried printing my blog. After I read your post I printed one of my posts just to see what that would look like. I then put it in a pile of papers that I have stacked on a shelf. I want you to know how much finding that one printed post meant to me. I had lost my sidebar and all my links! From the printed page I was able to find the blogs that were on my links. I took the names from that printed page. I had to search to find each and every one of you. I had to find your web address and enter you all back in the template. If I missed someone please let me know. That three ring binder woman sure got me out of a tight spot.

I can’t find my calendar or my horoscope badge. I searched and searched the internet and could not find where I got them. I got a cool new clock though. I found my friends and that was the most important thing.

I copied and pasted my template to a word document in case this kind of thing happens again. I am writing about this because the three ring binder idea saved my friends. I also thought many of you might want to head to your template and copy and paste it somewhere safe in case this were to ever happen to you.

Woooohooooo my mystery woman dropped in and left a comment! Thank you Kenju !!!!!