Troubling Threesomes

May your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. — Joey Adams

Sometimes trouble comes in 3's. That, I can handle. That's just a poetic way to say life is pretty normal. Times when my world feels more like a sweater unraveling? Well, those are the proverbial times that try my soul.

Take this week, for instance... When the snow plow drove over my mailbox, L only needed 3 days to break the Christmas gift I bought her. And, my love of horses culminated in what is probably a slight concussion...

And, then!

I had the bright idea to add a rotating photo album to my blog. It's the latest and greatest new Google widget! That's when my troubles went from 3... to 300.

IMHO, you've gotta be pretty over-confident to believe all of your photos are worth looking at. So, I deleted close to 300 of my really crappy pictures.

That's when I discovered the awful truth. Picassa, like everything Google, is so completely automated that any blithering idiot can use it without reading the instructions. Especially the fine print warning me that deleting a photo from Picassa ALSO DELETES THAT PHOTO FROM MY BLOG ENTRY.

As we stumble through life, we get too many warnings about all the wrong things. So, why oh why couldn't Picassa have a 64-point type warning about how disastrous this could be?

But here's the deal. There is always a silver lining to life. You just have to open your mind wide enough to see it.

L's gift had a warranty. This mess inspired me to delete all sorts of boring blog entries.

Bonus! I can't be burdened with holiday bills because I don't have a mailbox...!