I was going to blog every day for a month. It was going to be awesome. I really couldn’t fathom what could stop me from accomplishing my legendary goal. Fame and fortune? Pretty much mine for the taking. And then…

This happened.

My husband’s server finally died after like 30 years. Which is not to say that we’ve personally owned it for 30 years since that would be impossible, but the tower holding it all together, yeah it’s pretty old. And I guess we finally asked too much of it. So we were faced with the problem of needing to get a new computer. Which isn’t really all that big of a deal – we were planning to get him a new computer next month – and a new desk – or rather, a desk of his own. Or basically, “Honey I’m tired of sharing with you, plus you really, really hate Apple and I really, really don’t.” And it was gonna be awesome. And it still is awesome, it’s just early. And it meant reconfiguring and furniture moving and Linux kernal installations and “oh crap the internet isn’t working.” For like a day. So, the good news is – it only took him several hours last night and a few hours this morning to fix it. The bad news? My fame and fortune won’t be happening this year because I was never able to blog yesterday.

I mean, if I’d known that our internet connection would go down and about all the furniture moving stuff in advance, I’d have planned accordingly. Maybe blogged in the morning or even scheduled a post in advance, you know? I’m clever. But it was all very last minute and Dan was unaware that the latest version of Ubuntu could be compared to Windows Vista as far as reliability and satisfaction go. So now he’s running Gentu or something, I don’t know how to spell these weird non-Macintosh names, but you know, he’s happy as a staring at black screens with white text all day clam and I’m back online and blogging again and despite the lack of fame and fortune, I’m pretty giddy myself, because I’m blogging from a new location!

We moved my desk to the middle of the living room like one of those cool “in the middle of the room” people and put Dan’s new desk where mine used to be (since his computer acts as the main server for the three computers here and provides internet access to everyone and that wall is where the internet pluggy thing is). Also, we took off the hutch since my new location would look kind of strange with a huge hutch-wielding desk and it didn’t make sense for me to take the desk that he picked out and let’s face it guys, I didn’t like that hutch at all. I dreamed of having a tiny little minimalist desk and now, it’s mine. And it was so much cheaper than buying us both new desks. And it looks perfect, don’t you think? Very “Jen’s Blogging Haven” am I right?

So that’s why I didn’t blog yesterday and will not be winning any NaBloPoMo awards this year.