Chap 2 is coming. . . soon, I hope!
Arrgggh! If I gathered up all the time I’ve spent in learning curves and stretched them all into straight lines they probably could have taken me to Australia and back! Tuesday night (after dinner at McDonald’s — and I’ve decided that grilled chicken is my M-junk food of choice), Jared showed me again the steps to upload an audio chapter. This time I wrote down each step. I type them up and printed them out.
There are 18 steps. 18!
I showed the list to Jared who now was working on Dave Fetzer’s problem. Dave’s my assistant producer of the college podcasts.
Jared glanced at the list. “That looks like quite a few when you put them in a list,” he said, nodding. He picked up a pencil and crossed one step out. “You don’t need that one.”
Seventeen steps.
I spent two hours last night moving through the 17 steps, text messaging Jared in between. I think I had things so screwed up he couldn’t even find me. Finally at 10:30 we both gave up.
“Dear FTP gods,” I prayed, “help me through this and I’ll never use RSS in vain again! I will love mp3 for as long as it’s the preferred file. I will never take URLs for granted again. Please, FTP god folks just let me post!!
I went in again tonight at 7:30 after taking a 20 minute nap to gather the strength I knew I needed for the ordeal. It is now 8:45. I made it through all 17 steps only to find the “publish” button had disappeared. Where in the hell’s name does a “publish” button hide?
Friends, I am one frigging step away from publishing Chapter 2. All I need is the stinking publish button !
I am going to walk calmly downstairs, fix a drink of pretty strong character. I am going to sip it as I sneak back up the stairs and try to ambush the lousy publish button. I know it’s not far away and when I find it I will give you chapter 2.
sincerely,
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