Be careful what you wish for

A few months ago, I posted that I was wondering what to do with my blog. I had crossed the 3 year anniversary, but I was starting to lose interest in it, or rather I was starting to grudge the amount of time I spent on it. I was getting steady traffic, but I hadn’t managed to make the leap into the big time. However, I also hadn’t expended the effort 24 x 7 to make it so. Blogging is something I do for enjoyment, it was never intended to be an income stream.

So as 2020 arrived, I was still in that decision phase. Will I keep it going? Then I had a discussion one night with my son along the lines of – Mum it is 1 month since you posted – are you going to keep going?, prompted me to get up bright and early and try to start a blog post again.

What happened? Well nothing, or rather I couldnt do anything! I got ‘the screen of death’ as soon as I logged into WordPress!

What to do now? I did the usual things
– try again in a while,
– wait till tomorrow,
– switch everything off and on, just in case…

Fortunately my son is a software wizard, so I set him on the problem. He moved it forward a bit, but it soon became evident it was part a hosting problem, part a WordPress problem. As I am in NZ at the minute, I decided to leave it until the morning… (U.S evening). Bluehost responded quickly, and my problem was resolved in just a few minutes. I shut everything up, and headed out for the day.

I got back from my day out, and full of keenness, I decided to write a new blog post… My website wouldn’t even connect to wordpress. Back to Bluehost, except, this time the response was ‘NIL’, I couldn’t even get an initial answer on Chat, and I am certainly not going to call US from NZ.

The saga continued, another resolution chat, success. Another day out, another fail. Yet another screen chat, success, and then I decided to ‘grab the opportunity’ and publish a very brief post. Just to prove I could. This is it! Far shorter than usual….

So back to the purpose of the story – When I discovered I might lose the Cracking Retirement website, I realised it was important to me! I really was having a break, and it was something I would go back to…

So Dear Readers, you haven’t got rid of me yet!

Update – As of 20th February 2020, my site has been rebuilt, tested, etc, with help from Kat at LuckyAceCo. Thank you so much!

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