The Learning Pit of Hell

First, a confession…..

Give me a topic and an essay to write and I’m away.  Whether it be

at the local footy ‘carn the Purps’, riding a horse out the bush, sitting next to my concussed son in a poorly lit hospital emergency room, or heading down the parent-teacher highway, I am impervious to environmental conditions when it comes to the formulation of ideas.

But, when it comes to website design and technical issues, I am in Year 9 again, struggling with Algebra.  Yes, friends, I have been in the learning pit.  Wrestling at the bottom of the crevasse, with no harness or rope to guide me, my struggle has been a solitary one.  But I have reappeared.  I have pressed buttons, added plugins, disabled plugins, and sought counsel about things called Java Script.  I have deleted and reinstalled stuff, I have taken deep breaths and gone for runs, returning only to find that the check-out page of my website was still not working.  I have treated people badly.  I have been sullen and have not born adversity with the good grace it deserves.  Short of the dummy spit, I retreated into my internal state of pontification, wondering how to solve a problem when indeed, I did not even understand the nature of the problem in the first place. And whilst deep learning and the learning pit of struggle usually entails enriched insights, this was not so for me.  I have learnt very little about why my checkout page did not work.  Instead, I learnt that if you’re tenacious enough, if you google enough forums, finally you will hit upon something that works.  I have discovered that there are a lot of very smart tech people who love helping the likes of me, and for that, I am very grateful.

And all of this during the first week of the holidays.  Days wasted when I could have been planting spring onions.

Ok, so this is what you really need to know…..

For those of you who like a deal, I have now created some membership options that should appeal to you. My disingenuous genie membership scales are Bronze, Silver, and, you guessed it, Gold.

At a base level, for $10.00 per month, you can sign up and access ten credits which will give you ten download options across any of the content on my website.

Step it up and we have the Silver Membership option for those who are after a few more downloads. Same deal as the Bronze, but here you get 30 downloads for $20.00.

For those interested in accessing all of the available content on my website, sign up to Gold and for a paltry fee of $30.00 (less than 5 coffees these days), you will be able to download any of the content on my website for one month.

Sorry about the sales pitch angle – am polishing up my ‘Achoo’ piece for a Poetry, Pizza, and Performance night at my local Arts Hub – The G.R.A.I.N Store on Friday night. Hope you liked my last post. No point to it, but the act of creating is so much fun.