Well, I am not certain what happened, but after I posted my last bit…just for grins I clicked on the view site link and ~viola~! I have a sidebar. Wordpress gremlins at work maybe?

Since I have been away for so long, I wouldn’t expect that many readers are still around. I thought that after my children were sent off to college that things would calm down enough for me to re-establish myself in blogdomhood….NOT! I have checked in here a few times, but when I noticed that there were some technical issues with my sidebar I just could not devote the time to figuring out a solution. This is something that the blog did itself…without my help….because it was fine one day….several days as a matter of fact…since the last post and everything was fine. Then one day I sauntered in here and found I had no sidebar. What is it called when the bar is no longer at the side, but at the bottom?

As much as I hate having to give up my personalized header, I guess I am going to search for yet another WordPress theme. I know my theme was not overly professional, but it was MINE…unlike anyone elses. So with deep regrets of not having a better technology ability, I must forge forward with someone else’s theme. Don’t know how long it will take me to find the right one…but a-huntin’ I shall go…..

Learned something new today. 

Hais’s brand new tablet computer fell off of her bed last night and she could not get it to boot. She contacted tech support (in India somewhere) and they “diagnosed” something was wrong with the hard drive. That left me having to drive to Wichita today to see about getting it repaired. Best Buy said that it could take a month or longer to get the computer back. Time was important, since in a bit over a month, Hais will be leaving for college. She was a bit panicked over the Comp papers store on the computer…that are due tomorrow, as well.

This is the first time that I have been in a Best Buy since the Geek Squad had been introduced and I must say that I was somewhat impressed. Well the short of the story is…..the lady at Best Buy had no difficulties what-so-ever booting the computer. I guess it just needed a bit of rest and recovery from its heavy fall onto the wood floor of Hais’ bedroom.

Lesson learned today….before you drive two hours to turn in an insurance claim on your daughter’s computer first make certain that it is indeed damaged and then right before you leave….check it again.

The upside of all of this was that I was able to shop a little while I was in Wichita. Found the perfect Marilyn Monroe poster for Hais’ dorm room and had fun at the Super Target. I must really be boring if this was the highlight of my day…haha!

I am not certain, but I think I may have my comments thingy fixed. I have no idea why or how the problem came about, nor I am certain how I fixed it, but I hope it stays fixed.

We have been sooo busy here getting ready for Hais’ graduation next week. My baby is on her way to being on her own soon.

Thanks to Mrs. M over at Freaky Frugalite for letting me know that there is a problem with leaving comments on my posts. I noticed this a couple of times when I was trying to leave comments on others’ blogs, but was unaware of the same difficulty here at my place.

Being totally and completely technologically “dumb”, I do not know where to begin to find out where the difficulty hides. If anyone has any suggestions, I would certainly be very happy to hear them. In the meantime, I will continue searching for an answer.