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I’ve made a mistake.

I chose to use my web hosting company’s instant blog application. You see at the bottom of the page where it says “powered by WordPress”? That’s not the whole story. The other chapters go like this:

• Not all bloggers are technically savvy.
• Some of us are pretty much idiots.
• But idiots can pay hosting companies, too.
• Smart hosting companies make the blogging process close to idiot proof.
• In order to make a technical thing like WordPress software idiot proof, you have to strip out certain features. Simplify it. Dumb it down.
• That was OK for a while, but now I’ve hit a wall. I need more powerful tools, and I’m not afraid to be confused for a while as I learn.

So bear with me, and expect intermittent outages as I work my way up the learning curve.

Price of a very nice, high capacity, super ergonomic backpack if purchased new: $275

Price of same, used once, via eBay: $97 (after shipping and handling)

I’ve had one bad eBay experience before, but this certainly wasn’t it. And I do love my new backpack. So far I’ve got about 30 pounds (or 13 kg once I arrive in metric-land) of heavy, uncomfortable stuff like power converters, essential gadgets, and shoes in there, but I still feel like I could wear the pack all day. Previously I’d resolved to just suck it up and suffer through the airport in order to accommodate my stuff. Now it looks like that won’t be necessary. Of course, I say this having not yet spent days on end attached to my baggage . . .