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Yesterday, after going through a 5 hour download and installation process, I am (or my computer is) converted to OS X Yosemite 10.10. When that part was done, I started running various applications to see if there were any problems. Of course, there were some. All that took place yesterday.

Today, I started testing some of the applications that were not working after the new OS was installed. Some of those applications had miraculously "healed" overnight! The only one that had not was Blogger (one of the Google products), which is what I use to make posts to this daily (almost) journal site. When I tried to launch Blogger, I got a message that Safari (the browser that I use) could not open the Blogger page. An error message to that effect appeared and the launch stopped.

This afternoon (after a busy morning and midday romp with the grandkid), I went to the Blogger Help Forum and posted a note describing what was happening and requesting anyone's help with making a fix. The Google Help Forums are very handy. Within a short time (minutes), I got a response from one of the forum monitors with a suggestion proposed by the Apple support system. The process involved emptying all of the browser's cache, cookie, and history elements, restarting the browser, and seeing if that fixed the issue.

I did what was suggested and, of course, nothing changed--I still got the error notification and the stopped launch. I tried doing the clean out procedure several different ways, but with the same problematic result. Until, on a whim (for no particular reason), I clicked the Reload button on the frozen launch, error message page. Voila! The Reload button triggered a reload action that dismissed the error message page and successfully launched the Blogger dashboard! From there, things were back to normal.

I reported my finding back to the forum and received an e-blue ribbon and a Best Answer notification for coming up with this workaround. I think the final fix has to be made by Google--they have to modify Blogger's launch code so that it does what I am doing manually.

So, it's been a busy (and unexpected) weekend wrestling with computer stuff. I have a PD support group meeting in the morning and a dance class tomorrow evening. Then what appears to be a busy week of dance classes, doctor's visits, etc.

One of the newer dances that's being taught is named "Keep on Dancing." Sounds like my mantra!