Wednesday, January 6, 2021

I'm So Stupid, 2021 Edition

So, today's title comes from a Madonna song.  I was listened to a bunch of her CDs this weekend, and this title stuck out for me as a good one for today's post.  As many of my readers might remember, I have two other blogs besides this one.  First, there is The T. H. Weingarten Miscellany.  It is dedicated to some of my literary works, including the first rough draft of a novel, okay novella.  I really haven't posted much in it since I finished that work though.  My other blog is the one for my book store,  THW's Booknotes Blog. I set it up when I first started the website for my store, BookNotes.  I was posting weekly for a few years.  However, as business slowed down, a changed the frequently to every other week.  Then, it was once a month.  It has basically ended, as I haven't intentionally posted anything in it for over a year.  Note the adverb "intentionally."  Earlier last year, when I had to check out a tiny problem with compatibility with the site, I had accidentally switched the primary blog, this one, with the store's blog.  I caught it later, but it was tough to correct.  I had to copy and paste the blogs to the correct site before deleting them from my store's blog.  I didn't want my personal information to be part of my store's site.  Well, there was another problem last month, and the switch happened again.  For three weeks, I had accidentally posted this blog's posts on my store's instead.  When I caught the change last week, I immediately deleted the wrong posts of my store's site.  Unfortunately, I forgot to copy the posts on this blog first.  By the time I realized what I had done, it was too late.  The posts were lost.  I thought I was only deleting the posts from the website, but they were also deleted from the blog as well.  Anyway, I have been trying to reconstruct the missing posts this past week.  All three were topical in nature, so I had to repost them as quickly as possible.  The first two were very hard to replace, as too much time had passed since I wrote the originals.  Both ended up being barely half the original lengths.  The third post was more recent, and I had the need to update it anyway.  It still irks me that I made such a stupid mistake.  If anyone had cached those posts, I would have liked to get the original versions back, but I know that that is a very long shot.  At least I still have something for those three weeks.

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