Well, dear readers, at one o’clock yesterday, the discussion board and the notes went offline. By four-thirty, the board was back up and running, all avatars returned, things are speedy and that part of everything was excellent. The notes came up a little after that, although my photo was missing. That got fixed in five minutes. But the form in WordPress that I use for writing the notes would not come up – error message every time I tried. The began working on that as I was on my way to the theater and got a text asking me to try it when I got home. Well, I had my phone, of course, so I tried it there and got the error message. But I was told that he’d fixed the problem and then asked to try when I got home. So, I did the pre-show speech and came home. First, I went to the board and got the error message. Notes were fine. When I got the board error message, it said to visit the board click here – so I clicked and it took me right to the board. Say what? And then a light went on in the old brain. I realized I’d been doing everything by using my bookmarks. Yes, I cleared the cache, but that didn’t help. But the ding, ding, ding moment was using the bookmarks. So, I nuked the discussion board bookmark, went to the discussion board by clicking on the link at the end of the notes, then saved the board as a NEW bookmark. And – it worked perfectly, no more error message. So, I said to our guy, “Our guy, send me a direct link to the Word Press thing. He sends it to me. I click on it and voila, which is French for voila, there was the WordPress thing. So, I nuked that bookmark and did a new one with the new link and that worked perfectly. Problem solved. First, if anyone is having similar issues, do exactly what I just wrote about. That should fix any error message. Second, there may be a few little things that still need to be fixed and they’ll do those as they come up. But everything is running very smoothly and efficiently, no hiccups in posting and the site is running very fast. I believe the WordPress thing is now fully updated to the latest operating system, too, but they were able to keep the classic editor style that I’ve always used – the new things are too hard to understand, at least for me. Anyway, that was all good news and perhaps we can all breathe a little easier now.

Otherwise, I got maybe four or five hours of sleep, I had a Bob’s Big Boy combo, but it didn’t travel well and I swear no one knows how to make a Big Boy anymore – it’s supposed to be mayo and relish in like amounts. This was mostly mayo and perhaps a tiny dollop of relish – the balance is just off, and it was kind of gross. The fries didn’t travel well either. Lesson learned. I’m not sure if I actually dozed off, but if I did it wasn’t for more than thirty minutes. Mostly, I was glued to the computer screen (no mean feat) for the afternoon so I could test the board. I shaved and showered at some point and then, as mentioned, I moseyed on over to the theater. We were very light, audience-wise, so I gave the pre-show speech and left. Once everything was working properly, I could finally breathe easier and relax. I ordered some won ton soup and egg rolls for a snack. It arrived and every item that had a cap, said cap had come loose and dumped its contents on everything. The only thing that really survived the onslaught were the soup – despite the loose top, it was also in a plastic bad, which saved it. The egg rolls weren’t so lucky. There were two sauces that came with it – sweet and sour and a spicy, hot sauce. The latter spilled its entire contents over the four egg rolls, rendering them soft and mooshy. And half the sweet and sour cause did the same thing. I ate the soup and a couple of egg rolls and that was that.

Today, I must be up by eight and out the door by around nine for our 10:00 recording session in North Hollywood. We have nine songs to do, three of which are very short. We have an adult chorus and a kid chorus, and I know they’re rehearsed and ready to go, so I’m hoping the entire affair goes pretty quickly. That would be ideal. After the session, I’ll come home, change clothes, go get a bite to eat (or have something delivered), then I go to the theater, do the pre-show, and I know we have a really good house, so if they’re a fun audience, I’ll stay, then come home after the show.

Tomorrow, we have our closing matinee, and I hope we fill the house, and then after the show there’s a partay at the author’s abode in the Hills of Woodland. Then this coming week I have meetings and meals aplenty and lots of book stuff.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eight and out the door by nine, have a recording session – we’ll be out by four at the latest. I’ll come home, change clothes, the go have a burger or something like that somewhere, then the pre-show speech, I’ll probably watch the show, then come home. Today’s topic of discussion: How is the board working for everyone? And the notes? Who had to do the bookmark trick? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to be alive and well and living in haineshisway.com-land.