Aye, but it is truly an insane thing when I get obsessed with something on my website. This blog, to be exact. Didja notice that wee upward counting timer at the top? The one that says I am so many days, hrs, etc., clean (or since I got clean)? Well, ya, the source of my obsession for 19 February 2009.
The compulsion came about when I found this widget factory on the web. And I got to that site after spending a couple of hours perusing various recovery blogs. One of them had a countdown widget and I thought, “Hey, wouldn’t it be neat if I could find a widget that could show my cleantime??!!” Wohkay, fine. That sent me off on a search. I actually did find one, and supposedly built for Bloogle, but the site’s popup wouldn’t let me grab any code or open the Bloogle widget loader wangler thingymeedoo. 1.5 hours doing that.
Google, man!! Google a java script count up timer! Found one! Nope, it was a static counter. Only displayed fixed days and hours. Piss off, that was. 45 minutes. Off and search some more. Found one! Yup, displays days and hours and minutes and even seconds!! Awright, and the page even showed a working timer! A count down one, but the directions told how to set a count up.
Then came even more obsession and compulsion to get it just right to display here on the Robb Blogg. The right start time, the wording, the placement, colors, fonts, one line or two lines or three lines and back to one line, testing it in a jury-rig webpage created in Notepad substitute (which is a whole new story of obsession!), on and on and on. Finally, pasting the creation into the Blogger template I’m currently using and… what???!!! It doesn’t work????? WTF??? I try this that and the other thing to no avail. The l’il fucker just don’t wanna work! Damn! Why? Oh right, the script points to a particular .js file that happens to be residing on my computer and Bloogle dinna know that. So, upload the file to my host server, change the parameters in the template, and voila! You can see the fruits of O/C and approximately 3.5 hours of insanity.
It is now 0915 in the morning. This whole gafflebab started around midnite, with the blog search “recovery”. Right now, I am trying to decide if it all was time wasted. It’s a tuff one, to be sure. I found some absolutely amazing recovery blogs (a couple that I set up to follow -I ain’t gonna explain that-) and read some equally amazing words about recovery. The struggles and successes both. I saw some really freaky blogs, or should I say, comments on blogs (MPD aka Micky, !!oh—my—gosh!!). But, mostly bang-on stuff that made me go Wow…
Of course, then there’s the timer search and creation. I’m stuck on that one. Sure looks cool, yeah, but the time? The lack of sleep? I dunno. Methinks that is one to put up on a shelf, let God mull it over a bit, and I should go to bed. Amber’s gonna head downtown later because President Obama’s coming to town today and she hopes to get a fleeting glimpse. I’m going to take my Stars & Stripes off my wall and lay it out for her to bring with. Then, sack out. Or try to, with the snowplows and buses and construction going on… Aw, heck, I’m gonna flop like a bag o’ cement. No worries, aye, mate?
Keep The Faith*