I got up this morning and not feeling inspired by any particular topic, knew I would just publish the next day of Remtana. However,
first I realized that the post I had scheduled for yesterday didn’t publish. I didn’t panic–even though this meant that I’d missed my own deadline on my 60 day blog challenge. I congratulated myself for not throwing a little tantrum as I would have done in the past when, say, I wasn’t the first to turn in a math test, or some other unforeseeable obstacle or silly mistake caused me to miss a point or two on some assignment. Intent counts, right? Progress on letting go of perfectionism…
I went ahead and hit the publish button and the reflection showed up at the top of my posts list but indicated it went live 21 hours ago–like the time I had originally scheduled it for? What? Okay, I’ll take it. Still on track for daily publishing, I guess?
Then I tracked down Day 11 of last year’s social media posts for the next installment of the Remtana series. It would have been the shortest post with no real central topic but still it made sense to include it since it introduced the adventure within the adventure that the boy and I were about to embark on.
Each time I publish one of last year’s social media posts, I scroll down through my Facebook timeline to procure one of the images that are currently housed only on FB to accompany the blog. The one that goes with Day 11 is a painfully adorable video of my boy and his donkey, Joe. Well, it’s Jane’s donkey, but these two boys, mine and Jane’s, had the sweetest bond and the video captures it perfectly.
Argh. I am challenged in my technology skills. I don’t think I do too bad considering that I’m about to enter my 6th decade. Holy shit! I’m almost 50! With that said, I don’t know how to get the video from Facebook to YouTube. I’ll see if I can figure it out and if so, will add that installment to Remtana tomorrow. Or not. It will depend on how long it takes me since I don’t have lots of time to devote to that between now and then.
So, the theme today: technology can be a bitch but I won’t let it keep me from my goal of 60 consecutive days of publishing.
Restoring Justis 