So frustrating.  My other blog, the one I post to most of the time - Beth & Cory's Mom - dropped from PR 3 to PR 2 last week.  All Right, so I haven't been working on getting backlinks or going out of my way promoting it, but when I see that this blog also has a PR of 2 it really bugs me - because I definitely haven't been getting links for or promoting this one.  I haven't even been posting here - except for my daily tweets, which is automated.  So, really, it makes no sense whatsoever.

And it is a bit frustrating.  I can say that Google's Page Rank system is a bit screwy - obviously - but it still bugs me.  It's like playing a stupid game where I'm at the mercy of the dice.  I can't control it, and there's nothing I can do to change it - and it's not much fun.

I've been trying to post with Windows Live Writer, but it doesn't seem to be working.  I use it periodically with my Blogger blogs, and I know I've used it for this blog in the past - just not for a while.  I set everything up.  Everything looked good to go.  I wrote a post and hit Publish, and it acted like it was publishing.  But when it loaded my blog, there was no post.

Live Writer said it had published, but I have no idea where the post went.  So I tried again - several times - and no such luck.  Nothing.  So I posted to another blog - Packer Stuff, Anyone? - and that worked fine.  Except for some of the formatting, which I had to go back and fix, but at least it published.

I'm wondering, do LiveJournal and Live Writer no longer play nice together?  Or is it just a temporary glitch?

ETA: Found it! - Jan. 2nd, 2007 at 4:10 PM

Yep, that makes perfect sense...

I don't post here for 5 weeks or so, and Google gives me back a PageRank.  Whatever shall I do with it?  They gave me back a PR 1 on my Just Gotta Share This blog.  It was a 2, and then it was a 1, and then for reasons I'll never know, it went to 0 for a while.  Google is just so random.

I could really use a PR on Beth & Cory's Mom or even on bcmom's kitchen, but I don't know if that will ever happen or not.  Oh well.

All those links?  Where I'm actually posting about everything. 

I logged into PayPerPost today and was surprised to see my face on the dashboard.  Look there - Blog of the Day.  I don't really know what it means, except they randomly choose to feature one blog every day, and today must be my day.  For a while there people were saying that it looked like the last blog to submit an opp each day was automatically Blog of the Day, but I've since visited featured blogs only to find out that they haven't done any PPP opps for days.  That's the case here.  I don't get many available opps for this blog, so most of them are going on my other blog Beth & Cory's Mom. 

You're probably all just happy you don't have to read them all, right?  I know, sponsored posts can get a little old if there's nothing else to read.  I always try to make them somehow relevant to my life, and it would be nice if Google wasn't so mean, and I could have a few more choices about what I get to write about - or that I wouldn't feel that I have to write about anything I can grab.  I'd rather write about stuff I'm interested in or that I'm excited about, and I have gotten to do that.  There have been some really interesting things I've found out about through PPP, and getting paid to write about them is just a bonus.

I guess being featured as blog of the day is just a bonus, too.

I changed the design of my other blog - the one where I mostly talk about my kids and stuff, because I can, and also because I can't help but spread myself out all over the Internet.  I keep hoping someone I used to know will find me.  I keep looking to see if I might possibly know someone.  I even signed up for a Facebook account today hoping that some of the people I went to school with would be on there.  No such luck.  Where are these people?  I realize we did not have computers when we were in school, but I'm using a computer all the time.  Surely they learned too?

I need to do a real post soon because I'd like to get caught up, but for now I really need to get to bed.  First make sure the kids get to bed, then me to bed.  Their dad already ran off.  He's got to get up and go to work tomorrow.  Well, I've got to get up and do stuff too, so I need my sleep.  I know there were things I was supposed to do when I sat down at this computer, like get some Feast web pages up, but like I said, I got distracted.  I seem to get distracted very easily.