My panicky moments

I heard from Bas’ Lisa this morning. A very short email just telling me that she and her children were busy doing all the things that must be done at this time. She said she thanks us all for thinking of them and she will write more later. I’m glad she wrote.

I wanted to tell you one thing that happened that scared the heck out of me. I told you Bas asked to put up his final post and he gave me all the passwords and such to get there. I was honored, and a little nervous. I check a time or two to make sure I could get in, but I never read the post until I put it up, I just glance to see that it was there and signed out.

When the time came I went to his site – and panicked! All the instructions were in Dutch!  His posts were in English but the other words – revert to draft, edit, publish, preview, save, schedule, close and most frightening of all delete, were there but I didn’t know which was which!

I was terrified I was going to some how delete what he had written.  I realize now that I could have turned the instructions into English, I could have put all the words on Google translator, I even have other friends in Holland I could have called on, but panic was my first and strongest response.  I could picture Bas sitting back having a good-natured laugh at my predicament.

As I tried to keep control of my breathing I realized that it was just blogger and had the same buttons as the one I was used to – I switched over to mine, made a quick diagram of what each box said and, well it worked. And again I could see Bas nodding and saying ‘I knew you could do it.’

I had one other scary moment. As we were all learning about his passing I was reading other sites and started to leave a comment. I was just ready to hit the publish button when I saw that I was still sighed in through Bas’ account so the comment would have shown up as if Bas had left it. I’ve left comments before where I was mistakenly signed in as Cassie – but I would have been horrified to make this mistake.  I’m sure Bas, however, would have thought it was funny as heck.