Creating blogs isn't as easy as it sounds. Design is a problem to me. In order to get things the way I want them, I have to work with the HTML, and "you're on your own baby!" And it comes very, very hard. I can spend a couple hours trying to fix one element in a blog, trying over and over and over again to get it right. I often have to stop and pray for help. Why do things come so hard to me?
It's the law of "sowing and reaping," found in Galatians 6:7. When I was young I rebelled. I rebelled against my parents, my teachers, against any and all authority. I could go into all kinds of reasons and blame everyone and anyone but myself, but I'll spare you (and God) that, and let's just say I was a rebel. I never took a book home to study, and never did homework. Only by the grace of God did I graduate from high school.
Well ....this is a very good portrait, I think, of the law of sowing and reaping. Now as an adult, and having found a passion, I wish SO much that I had someone to ask questions of when I get stuck trying to do things with HTML. It's almost uncanny that among all the people I know, not one knows HTML, there's not a single person to turn to. I rebelled against my teachers, so now when I NEED a teacher, sorry - this is the reaping part baby! So my only recourse has been to search the internet for hints and helps, and I HAVE learned quite a bit. But each and every thing I do is such a MAJOR effort and takes an enormous amount of time.
For example, I wanted to put thumbnails in my sidebar, one for each blog, a picture people can click on that will take them to the corresponding blog. Blogger provides several ways to put things in the sidebar, but the one thing I really wanted to do, they don't provide a way to do it. One thing I DO like about Blogger though is the ability to work with the HTML so one can modify pretty much anything on the blog. That is, IF one knows HOW to! Well, I searched the internet and spent mucho hours trying to find the way to create what I want, and the diligence paid off, I finally found the information I needed. Quite by accident too, because I stumbled across it while looking for something else. The Lord does not spare us the law of sowing and reaping, but he IS merciful and I could write all night describing the many, many times he has made sure I "stumble upon" the information I've needed.
Well, as of tonight, I've finally got my thumbnails up and running. I'm not sure I like them though, they might be a bit too large. But enough is enough already! It took me an tremendous amount of time just creating them. Maybe some afternoon when I don't have anything else to do, I'll try making them over again, a bit smaller.
Take a look at my Home page. The center column is quite bare right now, but that will fill up as I put up links to new posts.
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I'm tired now, which reminds me, I've put a request in to Management asking for 48-hour days. I find it very irritating to have to go to bed when I'm working on something. And I HAVE to because I'm one of those people who is lifeless the next day if I miss sleep. So I guess I have to end this soliloquy and go give my body its sleep. But I'll be back sooner this time, because far as I know all systems are humming right now. And I have a LOT of writing to do to maintain all the blogs. But -- that's what I "Do."
Good night!
