In Which We’re Baaaaack!

 Did you miss us? Did you notice we were gone? 

A couple of months ago, we remembered that, not too long ago, blogging was a regular pastime, a daily one in fact. And that people even occasionally read the silly meanderings set down in these pages. We stopped the regular blogging in the face of general feelings of overwhelmedness (it’s a word!) and really hadn’t given it much thought. But then, one day, we got to wondering whether the site still existed. Sure, the internet is forever, but Google must do occasional purges of dormant digital domains, right? How else to make room for the important things? Like porn? 

Imagine our surprise, not to say pride, when we realized that Ye Olde Solipsist could still be accessed! We could start subjecting the world to our random musings anytime we wanted! 

Alas, it wasn’t quite that simple.

While we could FIND our page, we couldn’t actually create any new posts. When we tried to sign in, we were offered the opportunity only to create a new blog—while (reassuringly?) being told that solipsisticmusings.blogspot.com was already taken. We were perplexed.

We went to Google Answers to try to find. . .well, answers. Interestingly, it seemed that ours was a somewhat common problem. So we posted our question, and sat back to wait for a reply.

And we waited.

And waited.

AND WAITED.

Stupid Google! Don’t be evil, my eye!

We had essentially given up on ever retrieving editorial access to our digital soapbox until today, when we had to go to Google to retrieve some information on llamas (don’t ask), and we noticed the little waffle in the upper right hand corner—which reminded us that we had a GOOGLE email address. One we never use. One that would probably be the one to which any replies from Google would probably be sent.

Sure enough, there was a reply, dated about ten minutes after we had sent in our initial question, telling us what to do, and before you could say “Sweet Loretta” we were back to where we once belonged.

When we first kept this blog, we went some five years without skipping more than a few days here and there. The new streak begins today!