Why Can’t I Just Be Satisfied?

My wife has told me repeatedly to just be content, but do I listen?? Noooooooo…… So I have no one to blame but myself. But the good news is I am getting really good at restoring all of my blog data and blog template! This all began a couple of nights ago, I had this bright idea to add something new to my blog, something really cool. It was Amazon Media Manager, which would let me show books in my sidebar. Cool stuff. Just being who I am, I thought ‘I can do this, no problem’. What I didn’t think, but looking back, I realize, was an implied thought, was ‘I don’t need to back up my blog or my data, no stinkin’ way’ (Remember, that was implied) So I go through all the steps, realizing this process was not too intuitive and after spending way too much time on it and getting continual errors, I thought I would just remove what I added, no big deal, right? So upon doing this, I end up causing more problems, but as far as I could tell, it was just in my backend, so the blog itself didn’t look or act different. I was seeing some warning messages when I would do certain things. No problem, I can handle that and I’ll fix it eventually. I spend all day today reading some blogs, messing around and…..oh yeah, working in between times. Didn’t have time to post, so I decided I would tonight when I got home. I did get home late because I was asked at the last minute if I could help a friend move tonight, it was fun, there was enough of us there that it wasn’t all that difficult and only took a few hours. But, anyway, I got home late, and after a little bit, sat down. One thing I hadn’t noticed was that one of the things I blew away the other night was my ability to write posts……the link to go to the page to write posts was gone! So, needless to say, I have spent about the last 2-3 hours messing around with stuff and things are back almost like they were. I did find a couple of new templates that are cool and I’ll probably mess with sometime soon. But for now, I restored the same look and it’s good enough for now. I did have the foresight to backup my sidebar, I have worked too hard on that thing to have to recreate it. Also, this time I did backup my data before doing anything and did successfully restore it. I’m not sure why that’s a big deal, the big deal is that I actually took the effort to back up. Lesson learned: backup everything, that’s a recurring theme for my wife and I lately. I’m pondering the best approach to backing data up…CD, DVD, ghost or something else.(this is for my home computers, not church – using tape backup at church) My wife has websites and photos plus I have data I would rather not lose, plus a couple of websites and we have both lost critical data lately due to various hardware failures and other events, so backing up is my current goal. Anyway, it’s 1:34 am and I gotta get up in about 5 hours or so. I’m pretty pumped about this weekend, I was planning to tell about the church I’m going to visit on Sunday, which should be awesome, but that will wait til tomorrow.