Under Construction

Learning to create a blog is like driving in Ireland.  Everybody says, “It’s so easy.  You just pick a host, click the button on the host page that says ‘start here’,  follow the instructions and BAMM-O, you have a blog site and now you just starting posting.”

(Side note:  the above picture is typical Irish signage in both English and Gaelic [Irish].  I took this picture on my trip to Ireland in 2007 and this sign was located in Ballyvaughan.  The government authorities of County Clare removed this sign in June 2011 because of concerns with causing traffic problems and accidents.  I’m so glad I was right there at that time and was able to take a picture of this iconic sign!)

And, if you’re ever in Ireland, driving their incredibly beautiful, narrow, ancient roads trying to find the place on the map that you want to see and you stop and ask directions, they say, “It’s easy.  You just take a left at the big tree, turn right by the Parson’s house, go over the bridge, down the hill and turn right when you see the ocean.”

Well, I’m here to tell you in both instances, neither is easy!  Fun, but not easy.

Twists and turns await you.  Just when you think you have an inkling that you might be on the right track, BAMM-O, you hit an ancient ‘stone wall.’

Even blogging terminology is a foreign language, much like Gaelic or Irish as the Irish call it.  If you weren’t born and raised speaking it, you may never fully grasp it’s nuances, cadences and inflections.

Much like geek speak.  Maybe geek is a sub-language of Gaelic because you look at the instruction page, read the words, don’t even begin to grasp what you just read and hope that whatever you’ve already done isn’t going to be undone because you did it wrong!

Much like turning left at the ocean when you were supposed to turn right!

Anyway, Tiffany and I launched this blog without really understanding all the finer points of constructing a blog, much less HTML.  So, constructing a blog that you want to function in a certain way, is much like driving through some of the smaller cities in Ireland.  The roads are barely wide enough for two normal vehicles to pass, much less a normal vehicle and a large truck (HTML).

So, we’ve got a lot to learn and I hope that we are up for the challenge.  We hope, too, that you will stick with us as we adjust to our learning curve, much like crossroads in Ireland.

We are thoroughly committed, are enjoying the journey, much like I thoroughly enjoyed the country roads of Ireland (even though we were frequently lost), its wonderful people, heritage and culture and the surprises you find along the way because you made a left turn instead of turning right!

Here’s to many more left turns!

Tootles,

 

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