A funny thing happened on my way back into this blog. I couldn't get into it because of some kinda malicious cyber-link that kept sending me off to other places, at least one of which I think was a Japanese anime site. At any rate, I was definitely not in Kansas anymore.
So... after much frustration, I finally resorted to looking for instructions and reading a few directions. For someone who likes to figure things out independently (read: stubborn) these are indeed desperate measures. But it turns out there are, apparently, all kinds of places out there in cyberville where people post questions and receive answers, some of which are helpful, many that aren't. Thus, in a way, I could sill explore finding the fix on my own. One thing I did discover almost immediately is that this problem is not unique.
Although no one seems to know exactly why it happens, apparently it does happen occasionally. And not just to me. The experience is not unlike walking along a familiar trail, when POOOF, you're suddenly somewhere else in an unfamiliar universe.
The problem? As it turns out, it was widgets. Normally benign, it seems I had one rogue widget causing all of this distress. A pesky widget called the "realtime hit counter", which as you may notice is not longer present on the blogspot.
Of course, getting rid of this nasty little widget was far from easy and, as you may have noticed, required the sacrifice of most of our formatting and other bells & whistles as well. That darn counter widget fought like crazy to avoid being whacked with my edit button, and at one point even deactivated its own edit button. Ultimately and unfortunately, I was forced to delete all widgets and return to default formatting.
I suspect there is some kind of lesson in all of this.
