It’s all happening at the moment. First of all, the problem we had with the blog images seems to have dissolved into thin air. Yesterday morning, Mouse was close to a nervous break-down after she had spent almost the whole night on the computer trying to solve the problem together with Foreign Correspondent. You know how it is. When there is a technical issue, you really want to nail it, don’t you! When the posted image still didn’t show up in the Reader yesterday, she was hyperventilating. I was worried she might have a heart attack. Finally, she threw her hands in air and admitted defeat.
However, by lunch time she checked the blogs she is following in the Reader and she couldn’t believe her eyes. There they were, the Dede blog images. All of them. The two from yesterday, the day before, even last weeks. So, remind me again, what was the problem? It seems to have been a WordPress glitch and Mouse and Foreign Correspondent now believe it might have something to do with the size of the original images. The images I give them to put up are sized to fit into the width of our blog column, not a single pixel larger, and WordPress obviously makes them even smaller to display in the Reader.
They told everybody what they had figured out, but the Dedes weren’t interested in the detail. They were just pleased that it finally seems to work.
This gave Foreign Correspondent the confidence to put up his introductory post on the German Blog dedepuppetsde.wordpress.com. So it is all go now. “And we even have a follower already!” He was really chuffed when he reported back to us. “We also had a comment from Monika-Maria, congratulating me on my new job and what a great idea it is to have the German translation.” He could barely hide his pride.
Mouse was a bit touchy. “So what?” she said. “You are only rehashing what we do on our English blog. And if I hadn’t done all the hard work here for nearly a year, nobody would have looked at yours today.” She tried to down-play his success. I was genuinely surprised by her reaction. I thought these two were getting on well, after their unexpected bonding exercise of trouble-shooting. Then it occurred to me there might be professional envy at play.
Mouse thrives on the admiration for her work and so far there has been absolutely no one who could hold a candle up to her. Then out of the blue Foreign Correspondent shows up and in next to nothing he gets something off the ground, no fussing at all. Uh, that must have hurt.
“And by the way,” Mouse continued with the snappy tone, “I have started on the Dede puppets fan page on facebook… We have been discussing it for so long. This is just ridiculous. I can’t wait until we all agree… I could wait until the cows come home!”
“So how is it going with this one?” Socialite pricked up her ears. She was always keen on a facebook page. “Not so well,” Mouse admitted quietly. “I shouldn’t have said anything yet. I have to get my head around this first. After all, I was very tired last night from all the trouble shooting the night before. So, please don’t look at it yet!”
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Poor Mouse! His dejection is natural; however it will fade off in a few days. Nice job by the foreign correspondent.
Btw, the reader still shows tiny images for your blog… Are you going to live with that?
Yeah, I think so. I am just happy that anything shows. For a while there was absolutely nothing. This was what started to annoy me.
Re Mouse, yes, she is really protective of her work, she would like to do everything herself. But it’s getting too much, she really has to learn how to work in a team.
Protective perhaps…she has invested much personally to achieve success and then this interloper (Foreign Correspondent) shows up and viola!…technical problems happen.
Compared to Mouse he had indeed a cushy job. But without him, there would be no German blog. Mouse couldn’t have done all the work herself, after all they are not superhuman, they are only Dedes. I pretty am sure in due time she will learn to appreciate him.