Two bad things happened this week to test my tolerance for personal tech disasters. My orange shirt blogs has over 3000 posts and videos. I lost it all this week because of my own habit of doing without thinking. I have A backup but it is so gigantic it’s taking forever to upload on satellite internet.

I’ve missed it. I’m posting this here instead. I live and blog. The two are related.

My other hobby is new and I’m still in the honeymoon phase doing my best to block negative thoughts that usually make me stop trying previous attempts at hobbies in the first week. Sometimes the next day.

Day 2 is always a problem to maintain the excitement that comes with the idea. It’s common for ADHD people to lose interest in projects quickly but without a hobby partner or friends sharing the interest, I usually don’t even start.

Except for watching TV or playing with useless tasks online, I’ve never had a special interest or hobby since … Ever.

So I’ve been excited with this new project and have been working on it literally every hour I’m awake except for my morning and afternoon farm chores.

I have enjoyed the experimental phase and the discovery phase and I was just settling in at the functional phase when another screw up and another and I spent almost a full week fixing the fixes that didn’t fix the fix.

I compared it to a time traveler trying to fix the day he lost his dog but every time he goes back, the present is even worse. It was a good Star Trek Voyager two part episode.

AI and I are collaborating on a suite of tools that I think are useful. Working with someone that enjoys the task has made every day as fun as Day 1, even if that someone is an artificial intelligence. It means I’m not alone and it’s fun.

This week was all about recovery and misunderstanding. I had found an ideal programming routine. A free editor to work in with a modified version of my favourite AI for PHP coding without frustrating caps on usage and reliable code. I make a request for a change and it would make it.

Then it didn’t. I clicked something in some attempt to make the perfect system even better and it made it worse. I didn’t realize it was corrupting my source and all my solutions were trying to undo the wrong things. Eventually the corruption had spread to all my previous versions.