We created the Pathways page on the District 101 Toastmasters website three years ago when Pathways was first made available, and it hasn’t been changed much since then. I was asked to update the page in time for this weekend’s Fall Fusion event – no problem, especially since I was given all of the information.

As I was in the middle editing the page, an email arrived from the system, telling me that WordPress had updated itself to version 5.5.2. That confused things; the work I was doing vanished and the site became unresponsive. Fortunately, I had copied some of what I was doing to a different environment and I was able to recover without having to start afresh, but I would have been much happier if the update hadn’t happened right that second.

All of my other WordPress installations also got updated today; I guess there must have been a serious security issue, because it’s not usually so aggressive in updating.

Software is a wonderful thing sometimes.

By far the most exciting thing that happened today was getting two fillings replaced. My dentist was supposed to have sent me a “before-and-after” photo of one of them for the blog, but it hasn’t yet arrived, which may be just as well.

I am not the calmest dental patient on the planet. After they replaced my crown earlier this month, the assistant suggested I try “NuCalm” for today’s procedure. I guess it helped (I could tell that I didn’t tense up as much as I did for the crown), but I don’t see myself becoming a subscriber.