Ooh, there was a really weird issue with the blog — my last post totally disappeared when I used the phone app yesterday to correct a small mistake. Then the post turned into a much earlier draft. Wild. I think it’s up again in proper form, but that was very exciting for a while.
And I’ve learned two important lessons: don’t use my phone for anything, and don’t ever correct anything. Which, when you think about it, are actually broadly applicable lessons for life. For example, add “never ask him out,” and it’s basically the dating advice from The Rules.
Another, more felicitous and intriguing, thought … what if I’ve been hacked? What if non-state actors are trying to get at my secret pen files? What if they’ve discovered that my little blog is not really about pens at all, but is clever cover for an international espionage ring? When you think about it, “resin” must be code for something else? And what about ink? Or, wait a minute, iron gall ink? This kind of stuff couldn’t really occupy someone’s serious attention for years, right?
Fountain Pen Follies 
I had the exact problem where I accidentally unpublished my blog post and had to post it again. I meant to just view it but I was shocked when it disappeared from the site lol. I learned to not mess around with my blog on the wordpress app!
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Isn’t that unbelievable?! And I do so much from my phone! Never again, I guess. Glad it wasn’t just me, though.
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Sometimes I feel like I am parallel parked in a diagonal universe.
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Sounds like the promising beginning of what would be an excellent country song….
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I’m just glad I haven’t gone mad and started imagining posts that turn out not to be there! On the other hand, if blogs about fountain pens turn out to be plans for world domination, count me in.
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World domination would be a good thing…. Can’t say more here. Just know that “I filled the bicycle tires this morning.” 😉 Pass it on…..
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Message not received and misunderstood…😉
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I am just realising that for the past few years I have been reading blogs and taking the content literally when perhaps it contained coded messages from an espionage ring. Was there cockney rhyming slang? For example “I’m afraid that one of our pen club members is a Robert” (i.e. Robert Oster: imposter). That would cause quite a pen and ink (stink).Oh no, I am typing this on my phone!
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Alas I’m American; your English codes are not taught by our instructors. All I can say, nay, underline, is the following: “I bought four bottles of ink at the pen show last weekend.” If you’re one of us, you’ll know what I’m really saying. And how can anyone take this at face value, really? Buying four more bottles of ink, when one already owns so many, would of course be ridiculously implausible. As we say in American, “as if.”
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Flush the nib. I repeat, flush the nib. The piano is in the garden.
I try not to compose or edit on the phone for that reason: posts can vanish into thin air.
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The piano is in the garden?! GTG everyone!!! My Great Uncle Boris is on the other line.
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>> What if they’ve discovered that my little blog is not really about pens at all, but is clever cover for an international espionage ring? When you think about it, “resin” must be code for something else?
Now I’m thinking that resin might be code for something you’ve been sniffing. I definitely second the “do not use the phone for anything” motion though, for me, that’s a recipe for disaster.
Have a great weekend!
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I hope you get it straightened out. Hopefully it is something simple, and easily resolved.
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