The blogger beast hates me!

I freaking HATE the new google blogger version!!!!

Part of the reason why I haven’t posted more often of late is that I actually do write postings, but when I go to copy them into Word to double check my spelling etc. the post is deleted – seriously – I highlight all of the post and for some reason out of nowhere the words disappear. And, of course, there is no undo function.

Usually, I write the post in Word (which is what I am doing now) and then copy and paste the posting into blogger – having learned from experience about the blogger beast and its love for eating my words…but sometimes (and yes I never learn) I think that I am only going to write a quick blurb and so I just try to type it directly into blogger.

The blogger must have been really hungry this morning because it just freaking did it again – I am so frustrated!!!!!!!

This time though I think that it must have sensed that I was ranting about how much I hate the new blogger version (for a different reason to be described below) and didn’t want my rants to be posted…it probably hoped that I would just give up like I have done in the past and not bother to re-type things. Well, this time I am not giving in! (Though clearly, I am going crazy if I am personifying a crappy program.)

Anyway, my original rant was about how difficult it has become to even log in to blogger – the difficulty arising ever since the new blogger version became mandatory.

I try to log in but it usually doesn’t work. And, no, I am not an idiot who just can’t type my login or password accurately – I type the same freaking thing like a million times before I am finally granted access to my own account. ARGH!!!!!

Things became all the more frustrating, though, two days ago.

You see, I am a regular reader of Rebecca Eckler’s blog: ninepounddictator.blogspot.com. For the first time, the other day, I decided to post a comment about one of her postings. I wrote it out directly into the comment window (yes – I really will never learn!) and then tried to log in so that the comment would come from me, icecoldcranberry, rather than merely as an anonymous poster. AND, as usual, the system just wouldn’t let me in.

Because I had been so ‘excited’ to finally post a comment to her blog, I tried several times in a row to log in – to no success. At some point, the system told me to try logging into google a different way – and when I clicked the link to do so, instead of opening in a new window, the page opened in the current one (the one with my posting). So, of course, I lost my posting in the process. At that point, I gave up for the night.

But, then yesterday, I decided that I wasn’t going to let the blogger beast get the best of me. SO, I retyped the posting (changed slightly, of course, because I couldn’t remember my exact original wording…) and tried, yet again, to post my comment. This time it only took four tries until I was logged in as icecoldcranberry.

Last night before falling asleep, I had a horrible thought…what if, every time I tried to post my comment, it actually was in fact e-mailed to Rebecca Eckler even though the system didn’t actually tell me that the comment was being sent???? Ms Eckler would think I was the biggest psycho freak ever for sending my comment like a million times to her!

As of this morning, she had yet to accept my comment for posting…so I guess I will just wait and see.

In the meantime, I will just have to laugh!

p.s. Do any of you have problems posting a comment / logging into your own blogger accounts???