IT WORKED!

Okay ...... for several days now, maybe weeks, I've noticed this message when I log onto blogger about switching to their new format. This made me a little nervous on several levels.

First .... It's new. I don't like new things. I don't like change for that matter. I am a Luddite (according to this friend, anyway). Had I not been so .... cautious .... of new things, I would be a rich man by now. After all, I did live in Seattle when Microsoft and Starbucks were just getting started. A couple hundred bucks in stock back then and .....

Second .... I spent hours upon hours upon hours getting my blog site to look like it does now. The fonts, the sizes, the flip-floppy color thing when you put your mouse over a link, and the grand color scheme of my beloved WSU Cougars. My blog site is one of the old original templates. I never changed out to the new one. So I was terribly worried that all my hard work, that labor of love and frustration (I was up until 3 a.m. working on the damn lovely template.

Third .... Change worries me. Oh, wait .... I already said that.

That same friend whom I mentioned above told me that it would be okay to make the change and that I should do it. And she offered her moral and technical support. At one point during the process she asked me how I was doing. I said I was getting sick to my stomach from the stress of making the change.

But Look! It worked! And it does seem to be a little more user friendly. Why, just as I'm posting this I notice that where I actually make all my posts isn't cluttered up with a bunch of html gobbledy gook. And it looks like I can even make postings right from the main page, instead of having to do it where I'm doing it now (because I didn't know until just now).

Life ain't so bad after all.

Change is good.