A former colleague informed me that a bunch of my gettingoutmore.org posts were cached in BING! Thanks to the lesser known red headed stepchild of search browsers, I was able to recover around 15 of my travelblog posts! YES! Thanks, Sue, if you happen to be reading!
Last night I hit a wall of creativity when I thought of the daunting task of rebuilding my website. This was one of those live and learn moments. I trusted that my content would be moved over from the domain host I had been using, to my wordpress site. It was not. When I queried about this, I got an automated response. When I pushed the issue further, I was curtly informed that all of my content was deleted from their servers as soon as my subscription ended. Which was dated to about two months before it actually ended.
Back up your files, people. I cannot stress this enough. Put your content on a hard drive someplace. Don’t trust the myth that “Once it’s on the internet, it’s there forever.” I think this only counts with sexy pics and inflammatory shit you tell people in internet forums. The good stuff has a very short shelf life.
I’m not sure how great my posts were. I was still trying to find my voice. Now that nobody can go anywhere for the foreseeable future, I don’t know how much traction my travel blog will get. But at least it is on wordpress, which is better so far than that private domain host.
My iMac is killing it when it comes to getting things done. I’m loving it and today, I have the dubious honors of reformatting my MacBook Pro and sending it back to Apple for an exchange/recycling. There is still a lot to do and I have 11 paid posts that are due tomorrow, so I need to stop monkeying around with the travel blogs and take care of those.
I feel extremely productive today. Accomplished. I need to tweak my time management to make sure I don’t starve to death in the upcoming months. It is all doable. Even though I didn’t have to punch a clock today, I got up at a respectable time. Last night I fixed my LinkedIn posts from this site too.
I need to go outside and get some Vitamin D today though. Maybe a little exercise. It’s all going to be a balance of work and self-care from here on out.
Wendigo Mountain 