The morning started kind of grumpily.  Miles woke up crying and rude instead of his usual morning sunshine self, and the weather matched his mood.  It was a difficult drop-off at Jessa’s, and we also learned that things are looking bleak in terms of the likelihood that Jessa’s husband will find a local job.

I have a lead on a potential new childcare situation, but I’m afraid nothing will be as good as Jessa’s house.  Boo.

BUT!  BUT!  Things aren’t all bad.  Denny started my morning by giving me a birthday present (gorgeous new sheets), and he promises there are more to come.  We’re going out to dinner tonight, assuming Miles gets his act together.  A new person started at work today, so all of us overworked and underpaid schmucks are happy to have a new person on whom to offload. (This would not be a polite time to mention that I am blogging at work.)

Also, the new WordPress is pretty darn slick.

I was thinking about my griping, preemtively defensive in response to people who might say, “You hate it when people get all worked up about changes in Facebook.  ‘Life is change,’ you say.  ‘Deal with it.’  Where do you get off being ‘tudey about upgrading WordPress?”

Well, for one thing, it doesn’t cost me any actual time or effort to manage a Facebook upgrade.  All I need to do is blink a couple of times and I’m used to the new layout.  In fact, I hardly remember what the old Facebook looked like.  My personal history with WordPress upgrade generally involves me getting started, thinking I have it all under control, and then everything turns to crap and Denny has to fix it for me.

This is embarrassing, as I consider myself reasonably technically savvy, and I don’t like it when some guy has to come rescue me.  Admittedly, this guy is a bona fide computer scientist, so it’s not so bad, but still.  I like to do this stuff myself and it burns me up when I can’t.  Better to slog along with an old version than to fail at the new one.

This time, I didn’t even try.  I just let Denny do it and it worked fine.

And now we shall officially declare this subject off-topic.  No more talk of WordPress upgrades (until the next one, which I understand will be much easier and I will probably even do it myself).

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Rumor has it there will be cake at my 10:00 meeting.  I bought ingredients to make cupcakes to bring to work, but when I mentioned that I got scolded and told that cake would be provided.  I like this.  I think with my cupcake ingredients I will make a batch to give to new parents Mark and Rebekah.