At Least They're Committed

Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!!! I can’t stop laughing. I’m so mortified and remorseful . . . and yet, somehow, amused!!!

I’m finally getting up to speed on Google Reader because Brian brought it up again because I missed when the TechHEds ‘Women in Technology’ podcast went live and I really wanted to listen to that. He’d shown me how to get on Google Reader at least three times and yet all that important information leaked out of my head between the time I left his office and got back to mine.

So at last, at last, today I did it! I got up to speed — sort of — on Google Reader and it was easy because I already have a Google e-mail account so some of the RSS feeds and blogs I subscribed to (such as knighthawk@131j, A’ilana’s Truth and the Rocky Mountain News) were already in there. AND I was able to subscribe to TechHEds, Blubrry and The Blog of Angelo! Excellent! (There were a couple I tried to get on, but they didn’t seem compatible with Google Reader? Or at least it wasn’t offered as an option?? I’ll keep exploring.)

Anyway, I’d always been curious about whether, when you’re subscribed to a blog, existing entries update themselves periodically or whether once they flow into the subscriber’s queue, that’s it. I always find major screwups after I’ve ‘published’ (it’s the equivalent of proofing, and for some reason I never catch these things in ‘preview’ mode). Plus, I often think of far more clever things to add or maybe just words I prefer to use and thus rearrange things a day or two later.

So I subscribed to my own blog to test this out. . . and now (huge sigh, lamenting groan) I find myself compelled to offer a very public apology!!!! I am SOOOOO sorry!!! My deepest, heartfelt remorse to, well, at least Brian and Angelo! I’m quite certain nobody else is subscribed to my psychotic tripe, online ramblings, self therapy, whatever you want to term it, but if so, I’m sorry to you, too!!!

OMG!!! Not only does it only sporadically update, it has EVERY FREAKING posting I put in there “Private” or not! Every drunken rambling, every angry tirade, everything I wrote, made public momentarily, then pulled immediately (well, or the next morning when I sobered up), or that I removed after my husband “stumbled” upon it and screamed at me is in there!!!!  Hooooolleeeeyyyy SHIT!!! I really, truly am sorry and, quite honestly, I’m shocked and appalled mostly at myself and I’m pretty damn startled and amazed that you guys see something in me worth tolerating!!!! I am so grateful to have you guys as friends and I promise you, I PROMISE I’ll be good from now on!!!

(And I say that understanding full well you won’t hold me to that because you know me well enough to know that it’s only a matter of time ’til I fuck up again!)