short circuit [and i'm not talking about the awesome 80s movie]...

So I wrote this blog entry and when I went to click 'publish post' I got a 'cannot find server' error and because of the way blogger is wonderfully designed I could not go back and retrieve anything that I typed. I'm really pissed off and I don't want to re-type everything that I had so I'm just going to make several disjointed comments that might or might not make any sense but are fragments of what I was going to post.