Comments on: I Made a Rookie Mistake

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:17:18 +0000

misspiggytoes (I can spell that easier!) — Oh, that’s too funny! I love to be thought of as famous, even if it’s only in my own mind. BTW, I love that you’re enjoying the blog! I hope you stick around for a while. And I love that you’ve been commenting on my older posts. It’s giving me a chance to relive them and laugh at my own stupidity again.

By: Audrarian-formerly misspiggytoes

Audrarian-formerly misspiggytoes — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:39:16 +0000

These mistakes are exactly why your blog is so popular. I read this the other morning while my husband was getting ready for work, and the gas can thing cracked us
up because it sounds like something I would do. Women can
now say to their husbands, “Kathy did it too, and she’s famous.”

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:12:44 +0000

Staci — Awesome story! Although I’m sorry you got a faceful of dog for trying to help her and a nice shiner to prove it. How horrible! “Gracefully clumsy.” Yep, me too. I don’t know why doorways seems so much smaller to me now. I’m constantly running into them. Maybe I should wrap myself in cotton balls.

By: Staci

Staci — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:38:21 +0000

Sorry. I'm just now seeing the reply. Teaches me to check the notify box next time. I tried to help my dog jump on the bed--she usually tries and misses--at the same time that she tried to jump. The top of her head collided with the bone right under my left eye (the eye socket?). She screamed and ran under the bed. I saw stars. It was black/dark purple for days and then that yellowish green that bruises turn. Makeup wouldn't phase it. I don't think a soul believed me that the dog did it. I think they thought it was the same thing as "I walked into a door," which I've also done by the way. I've cornered the market on clumsiness. All those darn ballet lessons for nothing. They just made me gracefully clumsy. Staci’s last blog post..My Cocker Spaniel Now Has Electrical Plug-a-phobia

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:28:12 +0000

hasnuri — Welcome aboard!

Staci — My husband did the leaving-the-car-running thing before. All night. Can’t believe no one stole it. We were lucky. Yeah, but I have to ask about the black eye. You can’t just say that and not give an explanation. Please? Sorry about the Google thing. If I knew how much maintenance a blog would require, I might not have started one. Kind of a pain now and then, eh?

By: Staci

Staci — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:36:18 +0000

Running out of gas isn’t so bad. Try locking your keys in the car with the car running and the radio blaring. It’s bad enough when you have the car turned off, but with it on…

Oh, and turning spaghetti, which should be the easiest thing ever to cook, into pine straw…

Or getting a black eye from your dog (don’t ask) and having no one believe you at work the next day…

As for blogs, I’ve done a lot worse than delete a post. I accidentally deleted the title tag. Google of course managed to crawl all my posts the next day, so they all showed up as the blog title in the search results, and my visitor count dropped to seven. I’m still trying to recover.

Staci’s last blog post..Birthday Wishes and Chocolate Cake Dreams

By: hasnuri

hasnuri — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:00:46 +0000

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By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:57:11 +0000

Lucy P. — Yep. Once you do something like that, you never forget. If it makes you feel any better, my husband once left his car warming up at night out in our driveway. Then he forgot about it. We both went to bed. When he left for work in the morning, not only was his car NOT stolen (incredibly), but it was like a sauna in there. Don’t feel bad. You’re in good company.

By: Lucy P.

Lucy P. — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:57:02 +0000

I locked my keys in my car while it was running. I had stepped out to inspect what I believed to be a flat tire and on my way to the driver’s side, it wouldn’t open. Not only did I not have spare keys, I was late to work and had to wait an hour for roadside assistance to send someone to unlock the door Won’t let that happen again.

Lucy P.’s last blog post..Ho Ho Ho…

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:51:18 +0000

Metty — It seems it must be. I don’t know why my number often drops to zero and then up again. I’ve read people complaining about it as a bug, but perhaps it has to do with how Feedburner calculates everything. Big mystery.

LGR — Yes, but how do you “resync your feed?” I’m always afraid to mess around with my RSS stuff. For instance, I have three feeds, the current one and then two older ones I had when I was on Blogger and before I got my custom domain name. I wish I could combine them into one, but I fear messing around in case I blow everything up and all of a sudden have no readers. I do have that redirection plugin. Wish I’d thought of that. It’s a brilliant idea! Thanks for the feedback.

By: LGR

LGR — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:50:14 +0000

Sorry if this was mentioned I did not read all of the comments. Two things. If you do it quick when you delete a post you can login in to feedburner and resync your feed. That can stop it from being sent out to everyone, but not always. Second, a plugin that can be very handy is the redirection plugin. If you delete a post and people do click through from a feed you can redirect them to another post or a custom error page saying what happened. The plugin also comes in very handy for when you change permalinks as well, but that it another story. LGR's last blog post..Google Friend Connect Canvas

By: Metty

Metty — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:14:45 +0000

I mean, FB does a real good job, counting feedreaders is really hard, much harder then tracking normal visitors Metty's last blog post..Grüne Laserpointer als Waffe in Griechenland

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:03:10 +0000

Metty — Me too. It wouldn’t seem so hard to me, but Feedburner doesn’t even get my subscriber numbers right half the time. What gives?

By: Metty

Metty — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:57:15 +0000

Those mistakes, that with Feedburner, happens to me often. I wish they could change that. Metty's last blog post..Grüne Laserpointer als Waffe in Griechenland

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:17:48 +0000

Tom Smith — You have an interesting site. Looks right up my alley. Clean design, too. Nice job!