The blogging community I own and operate, Crabbysbeach, slid head first into a cement brick early this evening while I was working under the hood at one of the blogs. Funny thing, only the hub blog and several other blogs seem affected by the trauma, as the rest seem to be in good order.

I must have put a blue wire where a green one belongs. I dunno.

Although I have a fair idea what my next course of action is, I want to be sure, so I posted the issue in the BuddyPress forum to get some of that “God, we are smarter than you and here’s why…” action. I sure could use SOME action, even if it is full of humility and embarrassing shame.

Now my dilemma is what to do with myself while I am waiting for that answer, so I have created a short list of activities to occupy myself while I await the answer from above.

• Write A Blog Post Or Two Ahead

Why on earth would I do that? I’d miss the fatigue and anxiety caused  by pushing deadlines, and all that intimate time with my adrenal gland. It would be too much like being prepared.

Forget that!

• Drink The Rest Of My Tequila

Yeah, just what I need, to dance around carefree and naked while wearing nothing save for  a sombrero, while my site needs fixed. Wouldn’t be very responsible now, would it?

Ooops, the tequila is gone.

Wait!

Now it is.

• Answer The Flood Of Panicky Email

This how pathetically lonely I am. I have received 3, count ‘em, 3 emails from bloggers who are all worried about their blogs. The time down has been about 7 hours and there are 50 bloggers at the site.

I guess I need to get dressed, put away my sombrero, and start worrying about my image.

• Hang Out On Twitter

At this time of night, the bars are starting to empty out, or there’s a lot of in between gigs, tequila swillin’ freelance writers like me in the Twitterverse. Too many drunk tweets to try an decipher with one eye opened.

• Visit My Favorite Porn Site

I don’t bank any of my daily allotment for porn, so I’d have to eat into tomorrow’s scheduled porn slot a little, and everyone knows that a well balanced diet of porn is healthier than lopsided distribution.

Besides, I ran out of paper towels earlier.

• Play Call Of Duty 4

No way! This is the time of night when all the real terrorists get online and play. Those dudes play rough.

• Write Some More In My Novel

Actually not a bad idea, but I hate to be the odd man out. So I’ll let it sit in a drawer like so many of my friends are doing with their novels.

Besides, I hate rejection so much it pains me when my hand cramps up (see the first line under Answer The Flood Of Panicky Email).

So, what do you think? Should I be doing one or several of these? Maybe you have an idea that you’d like to share with me, or maybe not.

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